title: Subjective Experience and Resources for Coping With Stigma in People With a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: An Intersectional Approach.
abstract: In this study, we investigate the subjective experience of a group of individuals, diagnosed with schizophrenia, undergoing outpatient treatment in four psychiatric clinics in Mexico City. Our objective is to use the paradigm of intersectionality to explore the most common forms of stigma and discrimination faced by people with this illness, as well as the coping resources they employ. The major contribution of this study is its use of in-depth interviews and thematic analysis of the information obtained to identify the importance of sociocultural aspects of participants' experience of their illness. Schizophrenia, for them, was a problem of "nerves," whose origins were linked to magical or religious elements they attributed to their illness and which influenced their response to it. This resignification was useful to participants as a coping resource; it helped them find meaning and significance in their experience of the illness.
authors: National Institute of Psychiatry, Dr. Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Tlalpan, Mexico morarj@imp.edu.mx.
authors: Jazmín
authors: J
authors: Mora-Rios
authors: Master Program in Health Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Mexico.
authors: Miriam
authors: M
authors: Ortega-Ortega
authors: National Institute of Psychiatry, Dr. Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Tlalpan, Mexico.
authors: Guillermina
authors: G
authors: Natera
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D057545:Social Stigma; D013240:Stereotyping
keywords: Mexico; Schizophrenia; coping resources for stigma; intersectional approach; stigma and discrimination