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Schizophrenia: Is it time to rename it? The opinions of Latin American psychiatrists

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    While “Concern that the patient's compliance with treatment may deteriorate” is at the forefront for patients, “Concern about stigma” is prominent for patients' relatives. In studies conducted the rate of psychiatrists who do not use the term schizophrenia when informing their patients with whom they consider schizophrenia varies between 25 % and 73 % (Lasalvia et al., 2021; Maruta et al., 2014; Seré et al., 2016; Shergill et al., 1998; Clafferty et al., 2001; Cleary et al., 2009). In a study, similar to our study, it was stated that psychiatrists were more comfortable using the term schizophrenia when giving information to patients' relatives (Lasalvia et al., 2021).

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    Lauber and Sartorius, 2007; Sartorius, 2006) Other stigma reduction efforts include replacing stigmatizing terms with more acceptable terms in Latin America, developing campaigns on child mental health in LMICs and publishing motivational stories from people suffering from MHDs in Singapore.( Hoven et al., 2008; NUS, 2020; Sere et al., 2016) Anti-stigma programs for healthcare professionals improved their knowledge, social distance and attitude scores.( Lien et al., 2019; Mascayano et al., 2020)

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    In contrast, those who were against reported that renaming before successfully elucidating the nature of the disorder would cause confusion among professionals and the general public, that renaming alone would not eliminate stigma (which does not come from the name itself), and that the English term for schizophrenia did not cause as much stigma as the Chinese character-based term. A more recent survey on a large sample of Latin American psychiatrists working in routine settings (Seré et al., 2016) found that renaming schizophrenia was supported by most respondents, with 76% expressing the opinion that schizophrenia denotes stigma. From the subsample of those who found the term stigmatizing, 65% reported that it should be replaced, 51% that it should be changed as soon as possible, and 74% that the new term should convey a scientifically acceptable concept.

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