Mental illness through the perspective of undergraduate medical students in Greece: a cross-sectional study at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

IntroductionNumerous studies reveal that mental health-related stigma, stereotypes, and prejudices negatively affect the patients, jeopardizing their health, prognosis, and social opportunities. Healthcare professionals, who are in the first line of combating mental disease, are expected to play a s...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychiatry
Main Authors:	Georgia-Nektaria Porfyri, Maria Athanasiadou, Vasileios Siokas, Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Sofia Skarpari, Sofia-Chrysovalantou Zagalioti, Efthimios Dardiotis, Jobst Rudolf, Georgia Deretzi, Anastasia Konsta, Ioannis Diakogiannis
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-01
Subjects:	stigma mental health mental illness stigma reduction students’ stigma medical students’ stigma
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1228539/full

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