Stigma as a barrier to recovery: Perceived stigma and patient-rated severity of illness as predictors of antidepressant drug adherence.

By J. Sirey, M. Bruce, George S. Alexopoulos, Deborah Perlick, Steven J. Friedman, B. Meyers. Psychiatric Services, 2001

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Subfields: Family Practice, Pharmacology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Factors affecting therapeutic compliance: A review from the patient’s perspective (2008, neutral): “It was also suggested that patients’ antidepressant drug compliance was positively related to age over 60 years (Sirey et al 2001).”
• Internalized stigma of mental illness: psychometric properties of a new measure. (2003, background): “Stigma impedes recovery by eroding individuals’ social status, social network, and self-esteem, all of which contribute to poor outcomes, including unemployment, isolation, delayed treatment-seeking, treatment-refractory symptoms, prolonged course, and avoidable hospitalizations (Link, Mirotznik, & ”
• Avoidance of Counseling: Psychological Factors That Inhibit Seeking Help (2007, background): “Some researchers (e.g., Sirey et al., 2001) have asserted that there is a need to address, via workshops, the effects of being or becoming part of a stigmatized group.”
• Internalized stigma predicts erosion of morale among psychiatric outpatients. (2004, background): “For example, in a series of papers, Link and others have shown that, when individuals who have been officially labeled with SMI believe that most people reject and devalue people with mental illnesses, they may suffer a number of negative outcomes, such as demoralization, lowered self-esteem, impair”
• Depression and cancer mortality: a meta-analysis (2010, background): “This may be true for a host of reasons, including greater stigma (Sirey et al. 2001), competing demands (Klinkman, 1997), lower motivation to seek depression treatment and the concern that frail elderly patients cannot tolerate antidepressant treatment due to side-effects or interactions with other…”