Volume : 7, Issue : 3, March - 2018

A STUDY TO COMPARE THE LEVEL OF STIGMA IN PSYCHIATRIC AND TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS

Dr. Naresh Solanki, Dr. Madhu Saurabh Singh Dhurvey

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:&#10;AR-SA">INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:&#10;7.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">The study was planned to compare self-stigma experienced by psychiatric patients with tuberculosis patients and its relation to patient‘s age, gender, marital status, employment status and education level. </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:&#10;200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:&#10;AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:&#10;AR-SA"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:&#10;AR-SA">MATERIAL AND METHODS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;&#10;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>A cross-sectional study was conducted in tertiary care hospital during March- October 2017 comprising patients from psychiatric and tuberculosis groups. We collected data on </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:ArnoPro-Regular">Socio-demographic Pro forma</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> and the stigma scale &amp; </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:ArnoPro-Regular">the statistical analysis by SPSS version 16.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:ArnoPro-Regular"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:ArnoPro-Regular">RESULTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:&#10;200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:&#10;AR-SA">Patients attending psychiatry OPD consistently gave responses showing a greater degree of self -stigma than those attending general medicine OPD for tuberculosis. The impact of demographic factors and psychiatric diagnosis on the perception of stigma was not statistically significant.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">CONCLUSION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">The findings of this study suggest high self-stigma among patients attending the Psychiatric Clinic in comparison with tuberculosis patients in the same setting. There was no significant correlation between stigma scores, patient‘s diagnosis, and demographic factors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>