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Open AccessStaff Opinions on the Most Positive and Negative Changes in Mental Health Services During the 2 Years of the Pandemic Emergency in Italy
This mixed-methods study investigated healthcare staff members’ opinions on the most positive and negative changes in mental health services (MHSs) during the 2-year COVID-19 pandemic emergency in Italy, and w...
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Open AccessThe Responsiveness of Mental Health Service Professionals to Two Years of Pandemic Emergency in Italy
This multicenter cross-sectional study explored the responsiveness of Mental Health Services (MHS) to two years of COVID-19 emergency in Italy. Specifically, the study explored the ability of staff to: acknowl...
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Open AccessBringing Psychology Students Closer to People with Schizophrenia at Pandemic Time: A Study of a Distance Anti-stigma Intervention With In-presence Opportunistic Control Group
Psychology students are a target population to increase the likelihood that Persons With Schizophrenia (PWS) will receive evidence-based psycho-social interventions in the future. The willingness of future psy...
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Open AccessAttitudes of Catholic Priests Regarding the Participation of People with Schizophrenia and Depression in Religious Practices: Relationships with Prejudices and Community Size
This study investigated whether priests’ attitudes regarding individuals with schizophrenia and depression participating in religious practices varied in relation to priests’ adherence to prejudices about thes...
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Open AccessViews of Mental Health Professionals on Positive Changes in Service Practices and Staff-User Relationships After One Year of Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy
This study explored views of mental health services (MHS) professionals regarding positive changes in service practices and organizations, and staff-user relationships after one year of COVID-19 in Italy. Prof...
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Open AccessPsychosocial burden and professional and social support in patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv) and their relatives in Italy
Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR), alias ATTR variant (ATTRv) is a severe and disabling disease causing sensory and motor neuropathy, autonomic dysfunction, and cardiomyopathy. The progressive decli...
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Open AccessViews of Catholic Priests Regarding Causes, Treatments and Psychosocial Consequences of Schizophrenia and Depression: A Comparative Study in Italy
This study explored views of Catholic priests about schizophrenia and depression in Italy. Participants completed a questionnaire on their views about either schizophrenia (N = 282) or depression (N = 277). The d...
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The Views of Non-psychiatric Medical Specialists About People with Schizophrenia and Depression
This study explored the views of non-psychiatric medical specialists about people with schizophrenia and depression and examined whether specialists’ approach to these clients, and their perception of dangerou...
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The Opinions of Italian Psychology Students About People Diagnosed with Depression and Schizophrenia: A Comparative Study
This study explored the opinions about depression and schizophrenia among Italian psychology students, and whether students’ opinions changed during education. Of the 705 students who read a description of dep...
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The Influence of Causal Explanations and Diagnostic Labeling on Psychology Students’ Beliefs About Treatments, Prognosis, Dangerousness and Unpredictability in Schizophrenia
This study explored views of 566 Italian psychology students about schizophrenia. The most frequently cited causes were psychological traumas (68 %) and heredity (54 %). Thirty-three percent of students firmly...
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Open Access“I have got something positive out of this situation”: psychological benefits of caregiving in relatives of young people with muscular dystrophy
This paper focuses on the psychological benefits of caregiving in key relatives of patients with muscular dystrophies (MD), a group of rare diseases characterized by progressive weakness and restriction of the...
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Differences in views of schizophrenia during medical education: a comparative study of 1st versus 5th–6th year Italian medical students
This study explored medical students’ causal explanations and views of schizophrenia, and whether they changed during medical education.
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Metaphoric and non-metaphoric use of the term “schizophrenia” in Italian newspapers
This study examines how the term “schizophrenia” is used in Italian newspapers.
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Open AccessRelatives' views on involuntary hospital admission in 8 EUNOMIA sites
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Prescription of psychotropic drugs to patients with schizophrenia: an Italian national survey
This study aims to: (a) describe the type and doses of psychotropic drugs received by outpatients with schizophrenia in Italy; (b) explore the relationship between prescription and patients’ clinical conditio...
