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24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S116–S348

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personally known psychiatric patients favors a less stigmatizing

attitude towards them. Those who have not had this experience,

have a more hostile and intolerant vision of mental illness, and

consider psychiatric patients as inferior subjects that require coer-

cive attitudes and that would be better to avoid because socially

dangerous.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.531

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Differences in attitudes towards

mental illness and psychiatry among

medical students, before and after the

academic course of psychiatry

M. Pascucci

1 ,

, M. La Montagna

1

, E. Stella

1

, A. De Angelis

2

,

P. Parente

3

, V. Di Nunzio

1

, A. Ventriglio

1

, L. Janiri

2

, G. Pozzi

2

,

A. Bellomo

1

1

University of Foggia, Institute of Psychiatry, Foggia, Italy

2

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Department of Psychiatry,

Rome, Italy

3

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Institute of Hygiene and

Public Health, Rome, Italy

Corresponding author.

Background

Stigma towards mental illness and psychiatry have

a major impact on psychiatric patients’ quality of life; in particular,

prejudicial beliefs make it more difficult for future doctors to send

patients to mental health services, leading to a delay of necessary

care.

Aims

Our aim is to evaluate the stigma towards mental illness

and psychiatry, in a sample of Italian medical students. We stud-

ied the differences between the first-year students who have not

attended the academic course in psychiatry, compared to the senior

students who have attended the psychiatric lectures.

Methods

We tested 113 medical students, using the following

questionnaires:

– Attitudes Towards Psychiatry (ATP 30);

– Community Attitudes Towards Mental Ill (CAMI);

– Perceived Discrimination Devaluation Scale (PDD), to assess the

discrimination towards mental illness perceived in society;

– Baron-Cohen’s Empathy Quotient (EQ), to measure empathy.

Results

Among the 113 students, 46 have already attended the

academic course of psychiatry and CAMI scores were less stigma-

tizing as total score (

P

= 0.014) and in authoritarianism subscale

(

P

= 0.049), social restriction (

P

= 0.022) and ideology of mental

health in the community (

P

= 0.017). However, therewere no statis-

tically significant differences in empathy, perceived discrimination

in the society and stigmatization of psychiatry.

Conclusions

The 67 studentswhohave not attended the academic

course of psychiatry are more stigmatizing, considering psychiatric

patients as inferior people that require coercive attitudes, socially

dangerous and that should be treated faraway from the commu-

nity. Studying psychiatry is therefore useful to reduce, in the future

doctors, these prejudices toward mentally ill patients.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.532

EW415

Physical exercise and students’ mental

health

M. Theodoratou

1 ,

, I. Dritsas

1

, M. Saltou

1

, V. Dimas

1

,

A. Spyropoulos

1

, E. Nikolopoulou

2

, V. Bekos

3

, P. Kloni

1

,

A. Psychogioy

1

, O. Valsami

1

1

Technological Institute of Western Greece, Social Work, Patras,

Greece

2

Technological Institute of Western Greece, School of Administration

and Economy, Patras, Greece

3

Karamandaneion Hospitak, Pediatrics, Patras, Greece

Corresponding author.

Introduction

Studies have shown that sport participation is con-

nected with a more positive self-image and higher self-esteem

in adolescents (Bowkers, 2006, Kirkcaldy et al., 2002), whereas

sedentary behavior is associated with negative mental health char-

acteristics (Primack et al., 2009).

Purpose

The aim of this study was to investigate whether phys-

ical activity influences adolescents and young people’s emotions,

self-esteem and generally mental health.

Material

Questionnaires were redacted by the research team

investigating participants’ habits, emotions and health benefits

concerning physical activities.

Method

Questionnaires were administered to 150 adolescents,

aged 18–20 years old in Technological Educational Institutes, col-

leges and fitness centers in Patras, Southern Greece during 2015’s

spring.

Results

Eighty-seven percent of the respondents worked out in

fitness centers or in natural environment. Most of them answered

that exercise contributed to revitalization and euphoria feelings

(63%), stress relief (78%), better self-image, and better health (49%).

According to 63% of the adolescents, exercise improved their school

performance and 61% of them felt that exercise affected positively

mental health.

Conclusions

Present study’s results underline physical activities’

benefits in students’ mental health, self-esteem, feelings and school

performance being in line with other studies’ results [Biddle et

Asare (2011), Ekeland et al. (2005), Brown et al. (2013)]. Restrictions

refer mainly to small size sample.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

Further reading

Biddle, SJ, Asare, M. Physical activity and mental health in chil-

dren and adolescents: a review of reviews. Br J Sports Med

2011;45:886–95.

Kirkcaldy, BD, Shephard, RJ, Siefen, RG. The relationship between

physical activity and self-image and problem behaviour

among adolescents. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatric Epidemiol

2002;37(11):544–50.

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Effects of implicit affect on emotional

coping and school adjustment: A

short-term longitudinal study with a

school-based universal prevention

program for enhancing emotional

abilities

K. Uchida

1 ,

, T. Yokoshima

2

, K. Yamasaki

1

1

Naruto University of Education, Department of Human

Development, Naruto, Japan

2

Naruto University of Education, Center for the Science of Prevention

Education, Naruto, Japan

Corresponding author.

In recent years, affect and emotions are hot research topics in the

domains of psychology and brain science. Moreover, an increasing

number of studies have started to investigate the effects of implicit

affect on health and adjustment. The purpose of this study was to

examine the effects of implicit affect on explicit emotional coping

with others’ emotions and school adjustment in children.

Methods

Participants were 5th- and 6th-grade children in two

public elementary schools in Japan. The final samples were fifty-six

children (25 boys and 31 girls). Participants completed a bat-

tery of three questionnaires just before (T1) and after (T2) an