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Does Participation in the Meeting Centre Support Programme Change the Stigma Experienced by People with Dementia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

D. Szcześniak ,
K. Urbańska ,
E. Farina ,
F.L. Saibene ,
R. Chattat ,
S. Evans ,
S. Evans ,
D. Brooker ,
M. Orrell  and
I. Hendriks
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D. Szcześniak
Affiliation:
Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw, Poland
K. Urbańska
Affiliation:
Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw, Poland
E. Farina
Affiliation:
Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi–Onlus, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi–Onlus, Milan, Italy
F.L. Saibene
Affiliation:
Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi–Onlus, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi–Onlus, Milan, Italy
R. Chattat
Affiliation:
University of Bologna, Department of Psychology, Bolonia, Italy
S. Evans
Affiliation:
University of Worcester, Association for Dementia Studies, Worcester, United Kingdom
S. Evans
Affiliation:
University of Worcester, Association for Dementia Studies, Worcester, United Kingdom
D. Brooker
Affiliation:
University of Worcester, Association for Dementia Studies, Worcester, United Kingdom
M. Orrell
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, United Kingdom
I. Hendriks
Affiliation:
VU University, Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
F. Meiland
Affiliation:
VU University, Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
R.M. Dröes
Affiliation:
VU University, Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J. Rymaszewska
Affiliation:
Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw, Poland

Abstract

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Introduction

The Meeting Centre Support Programme (MCSP) is a community-based approach to support people living with dementia and their families. It was developed in the Netherlands and has been implemented in other European Countries (Italy, Poland and the UK) within the JPND-MEETINGDEM project.

Aims

To assess the relationship between background characteristics of people with dementia participating in MCSP, mood, quality of life (QoL) and experienced stigma, and to explore if and how the experienced stigma changed after 6 months of participation in MCSP.

Methods

A pretest (M1) post-test (M7) control group design with matched groups regarding severity of dementia was applied. In each country, a minimum of 25 participants using MCSP were compared with people with dementia receiving ‘usual care’. Data were collected with the Stigma Impact Scale, Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia, Global Deterioration Scale and two QoL scales (QoL-AD & DQoL). Differences in background characteristics were taken into account in the analyses.

Results

The preliminary analysis on 116 participants at baseline shows that the level of stigma was low to moderate. People felt more socially rejected in the UK than in Poland and Italy. The level of perceived stigmatization appeared negatively correlated with QoL areas and positively correlated with negative mood. Changes after 6 months will be presented.

Conclusions

It is expected that after 6 months people living with dementia participating in MCSP will experience less stigma, as in contrast with usual care MCSP promotes social integration of people with dementia and person-centered support.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster walk: Old-age psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S177
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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