Abstract:

This study aims to examine the level of social marking that individuals with severe mental illness (ARHS) who serve from the Community Mental Health Centers (TRSM) for example in Ankara and the relationship between the marking and the sociodemographic characteristics, the disease processes, the processes of receiving services from the TRSM and the levels of social support. The sample of the study was made by 138 ARHS individuals from 3 TRSMs located in the province of Ankara, who have served for at least 6 months, who are regularly arriving at the center, one every month, who have a diagnosis of one of the severe mental illnesses according to the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, who live with their family or alone and who want to provide voluntary participation in the research. The data of the study was collected through the sociodemographic data form, the multi-dimensional detected social support scale, and the scale of social imitation due to the receipt of psychological assistance. In the study of the data, Mann-Whitney U Test and Sperm Correlation Analysis were used. Although the social markage that individuals perceive ARHS is high, it has been shown to be significantly higher in men than in women, and in individuals living with others than in individuals living alone (p<0,05). There was a negative weakness (-.255), friend support (-.371) and total social support score (-.362) between the signalization that individuals perceive and a particular human support (p<0.05). The findings obtained will be planned to reduce the social markage that ARHS individuals perceive through TRSMs and should be emphasized in anti-mark practices, the social gender concept, lifestyle differences and the existence of social support systems.

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