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Attitude of mental health care professionals toward borderline personality disorder sufferers in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

A. Abdelkarim  and
A. Radwan
A. Abdelkarim*
Affiliation:
Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatry, Alexandria, Egypt
A. Radwan
Affiliation:
Faculty of medicine - Alexandria university, Psychiatry, Alexandria, Egypt
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Awareness and knowledge about borderline personality disorder (BPD) is growing during the last decade in Egypt. Yet little is known about the attitude of mental health care providers toward BPD sufferers. Stigma and judgments among health care providers will affect the quality of services provided to these group of patients. Determining those judgments and pointing to the stigma between health care providers will help improving the quality of care to BPD sufferers.

Objectives

Our objective was to study the attitude of mental health care providers in Egypt toward patients with borderline personality disorder.

Methods

62 mental health care providers, with a majority of psychiatrists, working in Egypt completed the attitude to personality disorder questionnaire “APDQ” designed by Bowers et al. (1998). The questionnaire was disturbed through an online form and knowledge of English was mandatory as it was the language of the questionnaire.

Results

The 62 partcipants of which 74.2% were psychiatrists and 68.7% had more than 5 years experince had a total mean score of APDQ of 138.76. The total mean score of 47 psychiatrists was 137.21 which was significantly lower than the mean score of 15 clinical psychologists and counsellors which scored 146.87.

Conclusions

Whereas mental health care professionals in Egypt had generally positive attitude towards BPD patients, clinical psychologists and counsellors had significantly higher scores in comparison to psychiatrists.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

Egyptattitudeborderline personality disorder
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S668 - S669
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