Editors' Introduction: Building Mental Illness Stigma Research

Otey, Emeline; Fenton, Wayne S.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.schbul.a007094

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“…Our prior research [32] indicates that any decrease in stigma of help-seeking can increase an individual's chance of accessing professional help, a known preventive measure for suicide [33]. However, no literature is available to indicate how much stigma reduction is needed for an individual to experience change [34] and existing measures of stigma and other attitudinal variables are imperfect [31,32]. Given this imperfection, the available measurement tools are likely to capture changes in stigma that may or may not be meaningful.…”

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The Perceived Stigma Reduction Expressed by Young Adults in Response to Suicide Prevention Videos

Keller

McNeill

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2021

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Evidence indicates that stigma impedes an individual’s chance of seeking professional help for a mental health crisis. Commonly reported aggregate-level results for stigma-reduction efforts obfuscate how much stigma reduction is needed to incur a practically meaningful change within an individual, defined here as an attitudinal shift and openness towards seeking mental health for oneself and/or support for others. When basing conclusions and recommendations about stigma-reducing interventions on aggregate scales, it is unclear how much stigma reduction is needed to incur meaningful change within an individual. We explored the impact of reductions in stigma of help-seeking scores in response to an online suicide prevention video among young adults in the United States, using online surveys to collect qualitative and quantitative data. We compared mean changes in the stigma scores from pre- to post-test (video exposure) of 371 young U.S. adults using standard t-tests and individual level analysis. A separate thematic analysis of free-text responses was also conducted from a smaller, randomly-selected subgroup, capturing individuals’ attitudes towards help-seeking for mental health problems. Great attention was given to participants to ensure that they were in a campus setting where counseling services were available. Four main themes emerged: (1) small changes in stigma scores were associated with individual reports of meaningful reductions in their attitudes towards professional counseling; (2) increased empathy towards victims of suicide and other mental health problems sometimes indicated increased empathy for victims of suicide and decreased openness in professional help; (3) empathy towards victims sometimes took the form of increased scores and grief or sadness, possibly thwarting the potential for help-seeking; and (4) self-reports of decreased stigma were not always associated with increased openness towards help-seeking. Results also indicated that small stigma score charges, not meeting statistical significance, were often associated with increased openness towards seeking help. These findings, discovered using mixed-methods, contribute to the body of literature regarding stigma towards suicide and help-seeking by demonstrating deficits in the aggregate-only analysis of stigma-reducing interventions specifically aimed at suicide prevention. Such individuation in stigma experiences indicates that public education on how to reduce the stigma of help-seeking for suicide prevention needs to consider individual-level analyses for improving target populations. Recommendations for future research include additional studies prior to releasing suicide prevention videos to public forums where they may be seen by individuals without access to help.

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Section: Video As Intervention For Stigma Reductionmentioning

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The Perceived Stigma Reduction Expressed by Young Adults in Response to Suicide Prevention Videos

Keller

McNeill

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2021

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“…Erkrankungen erhalten. Dies ist vorzugsweise mit der Vermittlung eines medizinischen Krankheitsmodells verbunden, welches beinhaltet, dass psychische Krankheiten zum groûen Teil biologisch verursacht sind, sich qualitativ nicht von anderen medizinischen Krankheiten unterscheiden und einer Behandlung bedürfen [4,5]. Die so aufgeklärte Öffentlichkeit würde ± so die Annahme ± psychischen Erkrankungen und psychiatrischen Behandlungen gegenüber eine positivere Haltung einnehmen.…”

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For and Against: Do Anti-Stigma Campaigns Make Sense?

2005

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Entstigmatisierung kann nur durch Bündelung aller gesellschaftlichen Kräfte auf das gemeinsame Ziel gelingen ± dieses ist nur mit breit angelegten und langfristigen Gesundheitsprogrammen, ¹Antistigmaprogrammenª, zu bewältigen. Antistigmaprogramme sind nachweislich effektiv; sie sind ein Muss für jede Gesellschaft, die sich der Ausgrenzung psychisch Erkrankter nachhaltig entgegen stellt.Jüngste Ergebnisse einer groûen Bevölkerungsbefragung mit über 4500 Befragten in Deutschland belegen die Effektivität von Antistigmaprogrammen: Nach drei Jahren Interventionen in den Projektzentren Düsseldorf und München, die das Antistigmaprogramm ¹Open the doorsª im Rahmen des Kompetenznetz Schizophrenie durchgeführt haben, zeigt sich eine signifikante, positive Entwicklung in einer Verbesserung des Wissensstandes über Schizophrenie, einer Verringerung negativer Stereotype und einer Abnahme der sozialen Distanz der Bevölkerung gegenüber schizophren Erkrankten in diesen Städten.

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Media, Minorities, and the Stigma of Mental Illness

Swantek

2008

Determinants of Minority Mental Health and Wellness

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Editors' Introduction: Building Mental Illness Stigma Research

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The Perceived Stigma Reduction Expressed by Young Adults in Response to Suicide Prevention Videos

The Perceived Stigma Reduction Expressed by Young Adults in Response to Suicide Prevention Videos

For and Against: Do Anti-Stigma Campaigns Make Sense?

Media, Minorities, and the Stigma of Mental Illness

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