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S600 24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S349–S805
Disclosure of interest The author has not supplied his/her decla-
ration of competing interest.
EV781
The social representations of
aggravating factors living conditions
and their connection to their
psychological profile
E. Kotrotsiou ∗, M. Gouva , E. Briseniou , E. Dragioti ,
N. Skenteris
1 Post Graduate Programme Primary Health Care, Nursing, Larissa,
Greece
2 Post Graduate Programme Primary Health Care, Medicine, Larissa,
Greece
∗ Corresponding author.
Objective To investigated the Greek social representations
towards harmful factors of health.
Design Cross-sectional questionnaire survey.
Method Two hundred and eighty healthy individuals partici-
pated to the present study from different region in Greece. The age
range was 19–65 years old. The questionnaire included:
– question for the recording of social representations based on free
association methods;
– The Greek version of the Revised Experiences in Close Relation-
ships (ECRI);
– The Symptom Checklist 90-revised (SCL-90);
– question for the social-demographic parameters.
Results One factor and multifactor analysis was used for sta-
tistical analysis. Results showed significant differences in social
representation of diet in terms of age and marital status. Place of
region and chronic disease were found to affect the development
social representations, such as exercise and disease, respectively.
Exercise, night out and health were found like positive social
representations, smoking and disease were characterized as nega-
tives, whereas diet, alcohol and lifestyle were found controversial
enough. Moreover, the results highlight the significant relationship
between social representations towards harmful factors of health,
psychopathology and attachment style (P < .05).
Conclusion The results of the current study highlighted the
importance of studying on social representations and provided
more support to the representations theory context. But more cru-
cially, our study highlighted functional domains of them related to
psychopathology.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
EV782
How are you?: A culturally sensitive
group therapy program for Latinos
M. Paris ∗ Lopez eón-Quismondo Silva ˜nez
1 Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New
Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 “Príncipe de Asturias” University Hospital, Department of
Psychiatry, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction An ongoing challenge for the behavioral health
field in the United States is ensuring access to culturally and
linguistically responsive treatments for the growing number of
monolingual Spanish speakers. The limited availability of services
further compromises mental health outcomes given the unique
psychosocial stressors often experienced in this population, such as
language barriers, family separation and inadequate social support,
unemployment, trauma, and poverty.
Objective In response to the local demand for services, the
authors describe a specialized group program for monolingual
Spanish speaking adults with chronic and persistent mental illness.
Aims The program aims are two-fold:
– to reduce exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms for individuals
presenting in an acute state of distress through the provision of
recovery-oriented mental health services in a familiar setting and
preferred language;
– to offer a specialized behavioral health training experience for
bilingual psychology doctoral students.
Methods The group is led by the psychology fellow and is offered
twice per week for a total of six hours, and includes elements of
interpersonal and cognitive behavioral therapy;motivational inter-
viewing; spirituality; coping skills training; and art/music.
Results The described mental health group program is the only
one available in Spanish in the local community and has reduced
utilization of the hospital emergency room. Consequently, it fills
an important gap in the service system and offers care that would
otherwise be unavailable for individuals in need.
Conclusions The program is a cost-effective alternative to hospi-
talization for Spanish speaking Latinos and a unique professional
experience for psychologists in-training interested in a career in
the public sector.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
EV783
Perceptions of treatment and
adherence during hospitalization in
psychiatric patients
G. Lyrakos∗, G. Tetorou , D. Sittas , A. Dimitriou , M. Ypofanti ,
V. Spinaris , I. Spyropoulos
General Hospital Nikaia “Ag. Panteleimon”, Psychiatric, Nikaia,
Greece
∗ Corresponding author.
Background Treatment adherence has a vital role in the patient’s
health outcome as poor adherence rates can reduce, even dimin-
ish, the effectiveness of the treatment as well as lead to a waste of
the health care system’s valuable resources. Previous research has
shown that perceptions of treatment strongly affect adherence in
psychiatric patients.
Aim To investigate how the perceptions of treatment affect
adherence during hospitalization in psychiatric patients.
Method Fifty psychiatric patients participated in this research, 21
(42%) males and 29 (58%) females. Out of them, 25 (50%) had been
diagnosed with depression, 15 (30%) with psychosis, 6 (12%) with
psychosis and depressive symptomatology and 4 (8%) with bipolar
disorder.
Results The findings showed a significant effect of psychother-
apy on treatment adherence ( 2 = 4.915, P = 0.027), with 7 out of
11 patients who undertook psychotherapy reporting good adher-
ence rates compared to 12 out of 39 patients who did not. Gender
had a significant effect on adherence ( 2 = 5.96, P= 0.05), with
females reporting better adherence compared to males. Percep-
tion of treatment did not correlate significantly with adherence
( 2 = 0.439, P > 0.05) and neither did education ( 2 = 2.22, P > 0.05).
Also, neither age (F(2,47) = 1.535, P > 0.05) nor hospitalization time
(F(2,47) = 1.131, P > 0.05) correlated significantly with adherence to
treatment.
Conclusion Even though there was no significant correlation
between perceptions of treatment and adherence, psychotherapy
seems to improve adherence to therapy during hospitalization and
is also correlatedwithpositive perceptions of treatment, something
which will be valuable for the patient even after the hospitaliza-
tion.