Perspectives on illness-related stigma and electronically sharing psychiatric health information by people with multiple sclerosis

The Relationship between Perception of Illness and Health-related Behaviors in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Background & objectives: Illness perception has a predictive value in the health-related behaviors of people with chronic illness and its impact on quality of life and disease management is important. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between perceived disease and health-related behaviors in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: This descriptive-correlational stu...

Psychiatric illness and family stigma.

Considerable research has documented the stigmatization of people with mental illnesses and its negative consequences. Recently it has been shown that stigma may also seriously affect families of psychiatric patients, but little empirical research has addressed this problem. We examine perceptions of and reactions to stigma among 156 parents and spouses of a population-based sample of first-adm...

Self-stigma in people with mental illness.

Persons with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia may internalize mental illness stigma and experience diminished self-esteem and self-efficacy. In this article, we describe a model of self-stigma and examine a hierarchy of mediational processes within the model. Seventy-one individuals with serious mental illness were recruited from a community support program at an outpatient psychiatry dep...

Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illness.

Perspectives on multiple sclerosis.

There is no question that MR imaging is presently the best method for imaging multiple sclerosis (MS); yet, even today, MS remains a clinical diagnosis, with the relationship between clinical course and MR findings still problematic (1, 2). MR imaging appears to be the most important test performed in the diagnostic workup of MS; it has much greater impact than CSF analysis and evoked potential...