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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.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1765

EV781

The social representations of

aggravating factors living conditions

and their connection to their

psychological profile

E. Kotrotsiou

1 ,

, M. Gouva

2

, E. Briseniou

2

, E. Dragioti

2

,

N. Skenteris

2

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.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1766

EV782

How are you?: A culturally sensitive

group therapy program for Latinos

M. Paris

1 ,

, M .

Lopez

1 , L. L

eón-Quismondo

2 , M.

Silva

1 , L. A

˜nez

1

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.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1767

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.