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This survey was carried out to assess attitudes and behaviour among youth within four constituencies in Oshana region, Namibia and to understand to how certain social and cultural factors inform attitudes and influence sexual behaviour among the population of young people surveyed. Using a structured questionnaire, data were collected from a random sample of eighty young men and women between t...

The provider-patient relationship can be influenced by stigma, particularly when it is based on the clinician’s perspective toward people with any psychiatric illnesses, with great impact clinical outcomes. This project aimed to identify changes in providers’ attitudes toward people diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses after providing trauma-informed care training in a setting where integrated ...

BACKGROUND Research has found staff attitudes regarding the sexuality of people with intellectual disability (ID) to be negative but influenced by several factors. The current study aimed to examine whether gender of people with ID affects such attitudes. METHOD Semistructured interviews were completed with 10 staff members and analysed using thematic analysis. RESULTS Results indicated 3 t...

The role of properties of attitude-relevant knowledge in attitude- behavior consistency was explored in 3 experiments. In Experiment 1, attitudes based on behaviorally relevant knowledge predicted behavior better than attitudes based on low-relevance knowledge, especially when people had time to deliberate. Relevance, complexity, and amount of knowledge were investigated in Experiment 2. It was...

Prejudice against fat people was compared with symbolic racism. An anti-fat attitudes questionnaire was developed and used in several studies testing the notion that antipathy toward fat people is part of an "ideology of blame." Three commonalities between antifat attitudes and racism were explored: (a) the association between values, beliefs, and the rejection of a stigmatized group, (b) the o...

ness of linguistic form may influence self-perceived attitudes in at least two ways. Thus far we have advocated a self-perception process in which people (mis)attribute their use of essentialist linguistic formulations to the centrality of the relevant preference to their identity. A second mechanism is also possible in which the use of more or less abstract linguistic formulations influences t...

BACKGROUND Over the past decades, psychiatry, as a science and a clinical discipline, has witnessed profound changes. AIMS To examine whether these changes are reflected in changes in the public's conceptualisation of mental disorders, the acceptance of mental health treatment and attitudes towards people with mental illness. METHOD In 1990 and 2011, population surveys were conducted in Ger...

Nurses (n = 49, age = 39 ± 11 y) from an Australian metropolitan hospital completed the Marcus Alcoholism, Seaman Mannello Nurses' Attitudes toward Alcoholism, and the shortened Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Perception Questionnaires. The majority had personal (73%) and/or professional (93%) experience with people with alcohol problems. Not one reported receiving drug and alcohol training. On av...