Development and Psychometric Properties of the Mental Health Knowledge Schedule

Evans‐Lacko, Sara; Little, Kirsty; Meltzer, Howard; Rose, Diana; Rhydderch, Danielle; Henderson, Claire; Thornicroft, Graham

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“…In this study, mental health literacy was found to be related to more favorable attitudes toward people with psychosis and a greater willingness to provide help to someone with a mental disorder, as expected, on the basis of the a priori hypotheses. These findings support the idea that educational interventions aimed at increasing mental health literacy in young people will be effective in reducing negative beliefs and attitudes toward people with severe mental disorders (Evans-Lacko et al, 2010;Jorm, 2012).…”

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Beliefs and Attitudes Among Italian High School Students Toward People With Severe Mental Disorders

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Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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The negative attitudes surrounding mental disorders and their treatment are a major obstacle to the correct identification and treatment of emerging psychopathologies. The purpose of this study was to investigate mental health literacy in a large and representative sample of high school students in Italy, via a booklet containing several questionnaires delivered to 1032 teenagers. The items in the questionnaires probed knowledge about mental health and illness, stigmatization, stereotypes, behaviors, opinions, and attitudes. In general, the students had a reasonable knowledge of mental disorders and were able to distinguish these from somatic disorders. However, a large portion of the students nourished some misconceptions about mental disorders and was also rather skeptical about the effectiveness of treatment or the chance of recovery for people with severe mental disorders. Nevertheless, roughly half of the students reported being willing to provide help to someone with a mental disorder when in need. Poor mental health literacy is a major barrier to seeking help and receiving effective treatment. Young people are the ideal target of raising awareness and antistigma campaigns because they are at a higher risk for developing a psychopathology.

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“…For this reason, some authors consider mental health literacy an outcome per se, that is, an increase in mental health literacy is expected to lower stigma and discrimination (Evans-Lacko et al, 2010). Poor mental health literacy is a major barrier to seeking help and receiving effective treatment (Jorm, 2012).…”

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Beliefs and Attitudes Among Italian High School Students Toward People With Severe Mental Disorders

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“…13 We were unable to find measures of knowledge and behaviour that might change in response to an anti-stigma campaign and were suitable for general population surveys. Therefore, we developed the MAKS 14 ; to measure changes in behaviour, we developed the RIBS. 15 These were added to the national public Attitudes to Mental Illness Survey in collaboration with the survey's commissioners for January 2009, 2010, and 2011.…”

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Responses to Mental Health Stigma Questions: The Importance of Social Desirability and Data Collection Method

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Objective:To evaluate the impact on the general public of England's Time to Change program to reduce mental health-related stigma and discrimination using newly developed measures of knowledge and intended behaviour regarding people with mental health problems, and an established attitudes scale, and to investigate whether social desirability affects responses to the new measures and test whether this varies according to data collection method. Method:The Mental Health Knowledge Schedule (MAKS) and Reported and Intended Behaviour Scale (RIBS) were administered together with the 13-item version of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale to 2 samples (each n = 196) drawn from the Time to Change mass media campaign target group; one group was interviewed face to face, while the other completed the measures as an online survey. Results:After controlling for other covariates, interaction terms between collection method and social desirability were positive for each instrument. The social desirability score was associated with the RIBS score in the face-to-face group only (β = 0.35, 95% CI 0.14 to 0.57), but not with the MAKS score in either group; however, MAKS scores were more likely to be positive when data were collected face to face (β = 1.53, 95% CI 0.74 to 2.32). Conclusions:Behavioural intentions toward people with mental health problems may be better assessed using online self-complete methods than in-person interviews. The effect of face-to-face interviewing on knowledge requires further investigation. W W WObjectif : Évaluer l'effet sur le grand public du programme Time to Change d'Angleterre visant à réduire la stigmatisation et la discrimination liées à la santé mentale à l'aide de mesures nouvellement élaborées des connaissances et des comportements intentionnels à l'égard des personnes souffrant de problèmes de santé mentale, et d'une échelle connue des attitudes ; et rechercher si la désirabilité sociale affecte les réponses aux nouvelles mesures et vérifier si cela varie selon la méthode de collecte de données.Méthode : Le questionnaire de connaissances en santé mentale (MAKS) et l'échelle d'évaluation des comportements intentionnels et rapportés (RIBS) ont été administrés conjointement avec la version en 13 items de l'échelle de désirabilité sociale de Marlowe-Crowne à 2 échantillons (n = 196 pour chacun) tirés du groupe cible de la campagne dans les médias de Time to Change. Un groupe a été interviewé en personne tandis que l'autre a répondu aux mesures par un sondage en ligne. Résultats :Après contrôle d'autres covariables, les termes d'interaction entre la méthode de collecte de données et la désirabilité sociale étaient positifs pour chaque instrument. Le score de désirabilité sociale était associé au score de RIBS seulement dans le groupe vu en personne (β = 0,35; IC à 95 % 0,14 à 0,57), mais pas au score de MAKS dans les 2 groupes; cependant, les scores de MAKS étaient plus susceptibles d'être positifs lorsque les données étaient recueillies en personne (β = 1,53; IC à 95 % 0,74 à 2,32).

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“…Participants' knowledge related to mental illness stigma was assessed by the Greek version of the questionnaire MAKS, Mental Health Knowledge Scale [25], which has proved to have a testretest reliability of 0.71 [25]. The MAKS questionnaire consists of 12 items.…”

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A Theory-Based Intervention in Health Visiting Students in Order to Reduce Mental Illness Stigma: A Quasi-Experimental Study

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Development and Psychometric Properties of the Mental Health Knowledge Schedule

Cited by 275 publications

References 34 publications

Beliefs and Attitudes Among Italian High School Students Toward People With Severe Mental Disorders

Beliefs and Attitudes Among Italian High School Students Toward People With Severe Mental Disorders

Responses to Mental Health Stigma Questions: The Importance of Social Desirability and Data Collection Method

A Theory-Based Intervention in Health Visiting Students in Order to Reduce Mental Illness Stigma: A Quasi-Experimental Study

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