Prejudice, stigma and mental health: an integrative review of literature - qualitative findings between the years of 2016 and 2018
International Journal of Development Research
Prejudice, stigma and mental health: an integrative review of literature - qualitative findings between the years of 2016 and 2018
Received 17th October, 2019; Received in revised form 21st November, 2019; Accepted 16th December, 2019; Published online 29th January, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Romano Deluque Júnior and Márcio Luís Costa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The objective of this study is to demonstrate the results of a literary investigation in the form of an integrative review that aims to bring up to date, in an updated manner, the state of the subject of prejudice and discrimination concerning the field of mental health. The research covered the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. The descriptors prejudice, AND mental, AND health were used in the following search engines: Scielo, Pepscic, PsycINFO, LILACS and MEDLINE, and included, theoretical studies, empirical (quantitative, qualitative or mixed), literature reviews, which resulted in the selection of (N=49) articles for the corpus.The themes that emerged most were: the relationship between discrimination and multidisciplinary health care team, prejudice and schizophrenia, ethnic prejudice and mental suffering, prejudice and depression, aspects of the relationship between work and mental suffering, and lastly, media and prejudice.
