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Social support in the community and the feeling of hopelessness in psychiatric patients

Introduction Psychiatric disorders represent a major public health problem because of their frequency and frequently disabling consequences. The inherent trend of assignment of individual rather than collective responsibility for personal physical and psychic health, that becoming present in general public, is not appropriate and acceptable for psychiatric patients. Hence the main aim of caring for psychiatric patients is not only the following the treatment regiments but .The education of patients as to how to live with their own psychiatric diseases by providing support and hope through the organization of proper care services in community. Methods and patients in our investigation we used the data obtained by psychiatric interviews. Three groups of patients, all of whom were hospitalised, were included: 1) patients with psychotic disorders (PSD) ; 2) patients with personality disorders (PPD) ; 3) patients with depressive disorders (PDD). We focused on the presence of feelings of hopelessness /despair as possible key clinical symptoms of all psychiatric disorders, especially depressive ones, in particular the correlation between feeling the lack of social support in community and hence a remarkable level of social burden/stigmatization. Aim The aim of our investigation was to estimate the influence of social support in the community on the individual's feeling of stigmatization by measuring the presence of the clinical symptom of hopelessness/despair in the three groups of patients separately as well as in all the patients altogether. Conclusion The clinical symptom of hopelessness /despair may be present in psychiatric patients to a in lesser or greater extent according to whether organization of caring services for psychiatric patients in community is good or poor. Social development depends not only on economic capital but also on the quality of human relationships and their willingness to help to the other members of the community - namely by sharing their social capital.

psychiatric disorders ; feeling of hopelessness ; despair ; social support ; community

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