title: Self-stigma and suicidality in patients with neurotic spectrum disorder - a cross sectional study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Self-stigmatization is a step-by-step process during which the person uncritically accepts the societal negative evaluation and applies it to himself. Relation between self-stigma and suicidality in neurotic disorders is not known. The aim of our study was to find connection between self-stigma and the level of suicidality in neurotic spectrum disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  It was a cross-sectional study of 198 inpatients with pharmacoresistant neurotic spectrum disorders hospitalized at the psychotherapeutic ward of the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Olomouc. Patients were diagnosed using the ICD-10 research diagnostic criteria. The assessments included Internalized Stigma Of Mental Illness (ISMI), Beck Depression Inventory-second edition (BDI-II), objective and subjective Clinical Global Impression (CGI), Morin sleep scale, Dissociative Experience Scale (DES) and Montgomery and Asberg Depression Rating Scale, item 10 Suicidal Thoughts (MADRS item 10 suicidality) for the assessment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The subjective rate of suicidality and also the objective rate of suicidality were strongly positively correlated with the total score of ISMI. There were also significant correlations with all subscores except for the correlation between the BDI 9 and the sub score Resistance against stigma, which barely missed the level of statistical significance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More attention should be paid to self-stigma in neurotic patients, especially in those with suicidal thoughts and tendencies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Klara
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Latalova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prasko
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kamaradova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ociskova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cinculova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Ales
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grambal
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Radim
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kubinek
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Barbora
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mainerova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jarmila
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Smoldasova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Anezka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tichackova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Zuzana
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sigmundova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009341:Negativism; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012649:Self Concept; D013240:Stereotyping; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires