Attitude of mental health care professionals toward borderline personality disorder sufferers in Egypt
Introduction Awareness and knowledge about borderline personality disorder (BPD) is growing during the last decade in Egypt. Yet little is known about the attitude of mental health care providers toward BPD sufferers. Stigma and judgments among health care providers will affect the quality of servi...
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Introduction
Awareness and knowledge about borderline personality disorder (BPD) is growing during the last decade in Egypt. Yet little is known about the attitude of mental health care providers toward BPD sufferers. Stigma and judgments among health care providers will affect the quality of services provided to these group of patients. Determining those judgments and pointing to the stigma between health care providers will help improving the quality of care to BPD sufferers.
Objectives
Our objective was to study the attitude of mental health care providers in Egypt toward patients with borderline personality disorder.
Methods
62 mental health care providers, with a majority of psychiatrists, working in Egypt completed the attitude to personality disorder questionnaire “APDQ” designed by Bowers et al. (1998). The questionnaire was disturbed through an online form and knowledge of English was mandatory as it was the language of the questionnaire.
Results
The 62 partcipants of which 74.2% were psychiatrists and 68.7% had more than 5 years experince had a total mean score of APDQ of 138.76. The total mean score of 47 psychiatrists was 137.21 which was significantly lower than the mean score of 15 clinical psychologists and counsellors which scored 146.87.
Conclusions
Whereas mental health care professionals in Egypt had generally positive attitude towards BPD patients, clinical psychologists and counsellors had significantly higher scores in comparison to psychiatrists.
Disclosure
No significant relationships.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b0c86363ebbb4a929c92cde3d736dd5f2023-11-17T05:05:41ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852022-06-0165S668S66910.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1719Attitude of mental health care professionals toward borderline personality disorder sufferers in EgyptA. Abdelkarim0A. Radwan1Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatry, Alexandria, EgyptFaculty of medicine - Alexandria university, Psychiatry, Alexandria, Egypt Introduction Awareness and knowledge about borderline personality disorder (BPD) is growing during the last decade in Egypt. Yet little is known about the attitude of mental health care providers toward BPD sufferers. Stigma and judgments among health care providers will affect the quality of services provided to these group of patients. Determining those judgments and pointing to the stigma between health care providers will help improving the quality of care to BPD sufferers. Objectives Our objective was to study the attitude of mental health care providers in Egypt toward patients with borderline personality disorder. Methods 62 mental health care providers, with a majority of psychiatrists, working in Egypt completed the attitude to personality disorder questionnaire “APDQ” designed by Bowers et al. (1998). The questionnaire was disturbed through an online form and knowledge of English was mandatory as it was the language of the questionnaire. Results The 62 partcipants of which 74.2% were psychiatrists and 68.7% had more than 5 years experince had a total mean score of APDQ of 138.76. The total mean score of 47 psychiatrists was 137.21 which was significantly lower than the mean score of 15 clinical psychologists and counsellors which scored 146.87. Conclusions Whereas mental health care professionals in Egypt had generally positive attitude towards BPD patients, clinical psychologists and counsellors had significantly higher scores in comparison to psychiatrists. Disclosure No significant relationships. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822017199/type/journal_articleEgyptattitudeborderline personality disorder |
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