Mental health literacy among young people in a small US town: recognition of disorders and hypothetical helping responses

Olsson, Dudley P.; Kennedy, May G.

doi:10.1111/j.1751-7893.2010.00196.x

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“…The female students were more likely than were the male students to volunteer support to people with mental disorders, as observed in past studies (Holzinger et al, 2012). In addition, as in previous studies (Olsson and Kennedy, 2010), greater mental health literacy was linked to a higher willingness to provide help to people with mental disorders.…”

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

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Buizza

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

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Buizza

et al. 2013

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“…Mental health literacy has been identified as an important, modifiable determinant in help seeking (Jorm, 2012); two recent studies indicated that young people who were able to identify symptoms as being a mental disorder were more likely to recommend telling an adult and less likely to recommend dealing with the problem alone (Wright et al, 2007;Olsson and Kennedy, 2010). However, only 42 percent of adolescent student respondents were able to correctly identify depression as a mental health problem or illness (Olsson and Kennedy, 2010).…”

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“…4557, 2004). In addition to other suicide prevention strategies such as screening at risk individuals, reduction of lethal means, and psychiatric treatment, education and awareness programs are areas needing particular attention (Mann et al, 2005;National Research Council (US) and Institute of Medicine Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults: Research Advances and Promising Interventions, (2009); Olsson and Kennedy, 2010;Michelmore and Hindley, 2012;Reavley and Jorm, 2012). In a survey of suicide prevention programs, Garland et al, 1989 reported that 95% of programs adhered to a theory that "youth suicide is most commonly a response to extreme stress or pressure and could happen to anyone."…”

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Depression knowledge in high school students: Effectiveness of the adolescent depression awareness program

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Journal of Affective Disorders

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“…Health literacy for mental health problems-aka mental health literacy [17]-has been shown to be limited in general population adults [18][19][20][21][22] and youth [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33], whereby many people fail to recognize and correctly label common psychiatric disorders and are limited in their knowledge about how to take appropriate action for themselves and others. These findings have particular relevance for caregivers of children with mental health problems.…”

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Children with mental versus physical health problems: differences in perceived disease severity, health care service utilization and parental health literacy

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Wang

Jorm

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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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2 ABSTRACTPurpose: To compare children with mental and physical health problems regarding i) perceived disease severity; ii) the impact of their condition on their families; iii) their utilization of health care services (including satisfaction with care); and iv) parents' health literacy about their child's condition and its treatment. Furthermore, we examined whether parents' health literacy differs between types of mental health condition. Methods:Parental reports about their 9 to 14 year old children with mental (n=785) or physical health problems (n=475) were analysed from the population-based National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs in Switzerland.Results: Mental health problems were perceived as being more severe (p<.001) and exerting a larger impact upon the family (e.g., financial impact) than physical health problems. Furthermore, fewer parents of children with a mental health problem mentioned having a particular person or place to contact if they needed information or advice regarding the child's condition (p=.004) and were satisfied with the health care services their child received (p<.001). The odds of low health literacy was higher among parents with children suffering from mental health problems versus parents of children with physical health problems (OR in the adjusted model=1.92; 95% CI = 1.47-2.50; p<.001); this finding held generally for mental health problem (although only a trend was observable for internalizing problems). Conclusions:The large impact of children's mental health conditions on themselves and their families might be reduced by adapting the provision of health care and by increasing parents' health literacy.

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Mental health literacy among young people in a small US town: recognition of disorders and hypothetical helping responses

Abstract: There appears to be substantial room for improvement in mental health literacy among young people, and the development of interventions to enhance mental health literacy among students may be justified.

Cited by 75 publications

References 16 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

Depression knowledge in high school students: Effectiveness of the adolescent depression awareness program

Children with mental versus physical health problems: differences in perceived disease severity, health care service utilization and parental health literacy

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