BACKGROUND The attitudes of medical professionals towards homosexuals can influence their willingness to provide these individuals with medical help. The study evaluated the medical professionals' knowledge about homosexuality and their attitudes towards it. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The sample consisted of 177 participants (physicians n=79 and students n=98). The study respondents anonymously com...

BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia and their families have suffered greatly from stigmatizing effects. Although many efforts have been made to eradicate both prejudice and stigma, they still prevail even among medical professionals, and little is known about how contact with schizophrenia patients affects their attitudes towards schizophrenia. METHODS We assessed the impact of the renamin...

Although the stigmatization of obesity among children is highly prevalent, its origins and relationship to mass media exposure are largely unknown. Ninety boys and 171 girls aged 10-13 years (mean BMI=19.84) were asked to rank, in order of liking, 12 figures of peers depicted both with and without various disabilities or obesity, and to rate their attitudes towards the obese child on visual ana...

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UNLABELLED This study investigates the personality characteristics of individuals who have stigmatizing attitudes towards people with mental illness. MATERIAL AND METHOD 700 final-year university students completed the "Dangerousness Scale,' the "Affective Reaction Scale" and 88 items of the "Defense Style Questionnaire" (DSQ). RESULTS The results showed that there is a strongly positive co...