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Impact of work experience placements on school students' attitude towards mental illness. 工作实习对在校学生对待精神疾病态度的影响。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.114.046714
Vanathi Kennedy, Ravindra B Belgamwar

Aims and method Research shows that 16- to 19-year-olds express the greatest level of negative attitudes towards people with mental illness. Our aim was to assess the effectiveness of work experience placements in influencing secondary-school students' attitudes towards mental illness and career choices. The Adolescent Attitude Towards Mental Illness questionnaire measured and assessed the adolescents' attitude changes. Pre- and post-evaluation questionnaires assessed changes in their career choices. Results There was a statistically significant change in the adolescents' attitudes, especially regarding categorical thinking and perceptions that people with mental illness are violent and out of control. There was also a positive shift in their career choices towards options in the field of mental health. Clinical implications Work experience placements can have a positive impact on secondary-school students' attitudes towards mental illness and may improve the level of student recruitment into the field of psychiatry.

目的和方法 研究表明,16 至 19 岁的青少年对精神病患者的负面态度最为严重。我们的目的是评估工作实习在影响中学生对精神疾病的态度和职业选择方面的有效性。青少年对精神疾病的态度调查问卷测量并评估了青少年的态度变化。评估前和评估后的问卷调查评估了他们在职业选择方面的变化。结果 在统计学上,青少年的态度发生了显著变化,尤其是在分类思维和认为精神病患者有暴力倾向和不受控制方面。他们的职业选择也发生了积极的变化,转向了心理健康领域。临床启示 工作经验实习可以对中学生对待精神疾病的态度产生积极影响,并可提高精神病学领域的招生水平。
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引用次数: 0
The demonisation of psychiatrists in fiction (and why real psychiatrists might want to do something about it). 小说中精神科医生的妖魔化(以及为什么真正的精神科医生可能想为此做点什么)。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.113.045633
Jacqueline Hopson

To encourage psychiatric practitioners to be aware of and to work to counteract the representations of the profession as evil manipulators in fiction, film and popular culture. A wide-ranging number of representative sources portraying psychiatrists are explored. It is demonstrated that psychiatry is overwhelmingly presented in a damagingly negative light.

鼓励精神科从业者意识到并努力抵制小说、电影和流行文化中对这个职业的邪恶操纵者的描绘。广泛的代表性资源描绘精神科医生进行了探索。事实证明,精神病学绝大多数是以一种有害的负面观点呈现的。
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引用次数: 23
Hope and hopelessness in carers of a relative with schizophrenia. 精神分裂症患者的希望与绝望。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.38.4.198a
Julian Leff
In her editorial, Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus warns clinicians against promoting optimism in their clients, since this can lead to unmet expectations and negative reactions when such expectations are not realised.1 In his commentary on the editorial, Femi Oyebode criticises Martin Seligman for exaggerating the importance of happiness at all costs as a goal of existence, and quotes Aristotle as stating that it is the mark of a courageous man to face things that are terrible to a human being.2 I wish to illustrate this in the context of family carers of relatives with schizophrenia. In particular, I focus on the overinvolved carer who is unable to relinquish her/his hopes and expectations for the affected relative. They are readily recognised by habitually referring to their relative in the past tense, for example, ‘she was such a beautiful girl’ or ‘he was such a good student’. This form of speech reveals the fact that the carer is living in the past and has not come to terms with the reality of their relative’s illness. This is particularly hard on the patient, who then feels driven to attempt to satisfy the carer’s need for their success, and fails again and again. The remedy is to offer the carer grief work to mourn their losses and to accept the reality of their relative’s disability and release both parties from this impasse, enabling them to develop a more realistic view. The patient will also benefit from grief work, administered separately from the carer.
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引用次数: 0
Risk assessment and evidence-based medicine. 风险评估和循证医学。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.38.4.196
Matthew Large
The article by Roychowdhury & Adshead starts to place violence risk assessment in the context of medical care.1 Although this is welcome, their partial defence of risk assessment in general, and of structured professional judgement in particular, is based on some significant distortions. The first distortion is the gross overestimation of the power of risk assessment to discriminate between low-risk and high-risk people. The authors present a contingency table that they imagine shows the ‘potential’ outcomes of a violence risk assessment (Table 2). Using their tabulated data, a diagnostic odds ratio for risk assessment can be calculated to be 81, indicating that the risk of violence in the high-risk group (50%) is hugely higher than in the low-risk group (1.2%). These figures are totally unrealistic. In fact, the diagnostic odds ratio of violence risk assessment in replication studies was recently estimated by meta-analysis2 to be 3. Roychowdhury & Adshead overestimate the discriminating power of risk assessment by 27 times. Moreover, even an unrealistically powerful risk assessment with diagnostic odds of 16 is of little or no value because of failure to detect potential violence in the low-risk group and the large proportion of false positives in the high-risk group.3 The second distortion relates to the underestimation of the precision of medical tests. In fact, the authors seem to have had difficulty finding any medical test with diagnostic odds that they could compare to a violence risk assessment. Instead they chose to compare two medical treatments. They argue that the high number-needed-to-treat as a result of a violence risk assessment is acceptable in psychiatry because in cardiology the number of bypass grafts needed to prevent one fatal outcome has been calculated to be 53.3 However, the meta-analysis they derived this figure from compared coronary bypass surgery to angioplasty - both of which are highly efficacious treatments for angina.3 In reality, medical tests that are used to diagnose conditions with serious implications for the patient are very accurate - biopsy is an excellent indicator of cancer and an angiogram a good indicator of coronary heart disease. Despite these limitations, I support the authors’ general idea of viewing risk assessment as a medical procedure. I would go further: surely violence risk assessment should be judged by the standards of evidence-based medicine. The real questions then become: (1) are there any rational interventions that can be justified in terms of cost and benefit that might reduce violence among high-risk patients (many of whom will not be violent) and yet should not be offered to low-risk patients (who commit as many or even the majority of acts of violence); and (2) is there evidence that shifting treatment resources from low-risk to high-risk people can, in any way, reduce overall levels of harm? The answer to both these questions is no.4,5 There is no doubt that medical di
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Profile: james davies. 简介:詹姆斯·戴维斯。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.113.046516
Neil Armstrong
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Profile: Stigma and the psychiatrist - Julia Bland talks to Dinesh Bhugra. 简介:耻辱和精神科医生——茱莉亚·布兰德与迪内什·布格拉谈话。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.114.048520
Julia Bland
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Bulletin comment: Learned helplessness. 公告评论:习得性无助。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.114.047829
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OCTET Study: flawed by type 2 error. OCTET研究:存在2型错误。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.38.4.196b
Andy J Owen, Deepak Mirok, Loopinder Sood
The OCTET study overcame many legal and ethical difficulties in setting up a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of community treatment orders (CTOs).1 We welcome the acknowledgment of some of the limitations of the trial, but are surprised that claims are still being made that the study demonstrates that CTOs do not achieve their principle purpose of reducing relapse and readmission.2 Imagine a hypothetical RCT comparing medication with placebo. The trial would be powered based on estimated effect size and its duration would be based on expected time for response. If, in this scenario, 25% of those in the placebo arm had inadvertently been given the active drug, and if the duration of the study had been only a third of that planned, it would be inconceivable that the investigators would claim a negative result proved the drug ineffective. Yet this is analogous to what has taken place with OCTET. In OCTET, median length of compulsion in the community was 183 days in the CTO group v. 8 days in the Section 17 group. Although this seems to indicate that it was a trial of people who were largely either subject to long periods of community compulsion (CTO group) or only a few days of compulsion (Section 17 group), a more detailed examination brings this into question. Almost 25% of the Section 17 group were still subject to compulsion by the end of the study, and the mean length of compulsion in this group was 46 days. In the CTO group, only 50% were subject to compulsion by the end of the study, with a mean length under compulsion of 170 days. This has two main implications. First, the difference in mean length of compulsion between the CTO group and the Section 17 group was only 125 days, or a little over 4 months. It is questionable whether this is sufficient time for any benefits of CTOs to become apparent, and presumably the initial intention had been to compare 12 months in each arm. Second, in effect, a quarter of the control group were receiving the same type of intervention as the CTO group throughout the course of the study. Any possible benefit in the CTO group would have been offset by the same effects in a large number of control subjects, leading to a large reduction in the power of the study and to type 2 error. The sensitivity analysis does nothing to address this loss of power. We contend that given these problems, in conjunction with the broader issues of recruitment and selection,3 it is not possible to claim that OCTET demonstrates CTOs to be ineffective.
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引用次数: 2
GMC guidance needed. 需要GMC指导。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.38.4.195b
Keith E Dudleston
Roychowdhury & Adshead should be thanked for raising the issue of the ethics of the use of actuarial risk assessment in psychiatry.1 These ethics might at first appear obvious: medical practitioners must have an overriding duty to protect the public from serious crime. It follows that they must do everything possible to accurately assess the risk of such crime, including the use of these assessment instruments. However, as Roychowdhury & Adshead point out, these instruments will produce misleading results if the prevalence of the serious crime being considered in the relevant population is low or unknown. Indeed, they point out: ‘A key challenge in psychiatry is that base rates [of the prevalence of serious crime] are often not known, are low and vary for different types of violence.’ So if doctors use these assessments they risk wrongly identifying their patient as at high risk of committing a serious crime, and then act in a way that is not in the best interests of that patient. Such an act would of course be inconsistent with the duties of a doctor as set out by the General Medical Council (GMC) in Good Medical Practice.2 It follows that while the prevalence of particular serious crimes in various patient populations is unknown or is known to be low, the use of these actuarial risk assessments will remain unethical. As Roychowdhury & Ashhead conclude: ‘[structured professional judgement] tools used as checklists of risk factors without construction of risk scenarios or a risk management plan remains harmful and unethical practice.’ In my opinion psychiatrists would value guidance on this issue from the GMC.
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Too similar, too different: the paradoxical dualism of psychiatric stigma. 太相似,太不同:精神病学耻辱的矛盾二元论。
Pub Date : 2014-08-01 DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.113.044693
Tania Louise Gergel

Challenges to psychiatric stigma fall between a rock and a hard place. Decreasing one prejudice may inadvertently increase another. Emphasising similarities between mental illness and 'ordinary' experience to escape the fear-related prejudices associated with the imagined 'otherness' of persons with mental illness risks conclusions that mental illness indicates moral weakness and the loss of any benefits of a medical model. An emphasis on illness and difference from normal experience risks a response of fear of the alien. Thus, a 'likeness-based' and 'unlikeness-based' conception of psychiatric stigma can lead to prejudices stemming from paradoxically opposing assumptions about mental illness. This may create a troubling impasse for anti-stigma campaigns.

对精神病学污名的挑战是艰难的。减少一种偏见可能会无意中增加另一种偏见。强调精神疾病与“普通”经验之间的相似性,以逃避与精神疾病患者想象的“他者”相关的恐惧相关的偏见,可能会得出这样的结论:精神疾病表明道德上的弱点,并且失去了医学模式的任何好处。强调疾病和与正常经验的不同可能会引起对外星人的恐惧反应。因此,“基于相似”和“基于不相似”的精神病学耻辱概念可能导致偏见,这些偏见源于对精神疾病自相矛盾的相反假设。这可能会给反污名运动带来麻烦的僵局。
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Psychiatric bulletin (2014)
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