The relationship between demographic factors and attitudes toward mental health services

Leaf, Philip J.; Bruce, Martha Livington; Tischler, Gary L.; Hölzer, Charles E.

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“…Like other ethnic minority groups, Latinos report more logistical barriers to health care utilization than do other ethnic groups, including transportation problems, lack of child care, insurance, or free time, all of which would likely also limit ability or willingness to participate in research [15][16][17].…”

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The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits

Katz

Kegeles

Green

et al. 2003

Dental Clinics of North America

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SummaryThis article is intended to provide a relatively complete picture of how a pilot study-conceived and initiated within an NIDCR-funded RRCMOH-matured into a solid line of investigation within that center and "with legs"into a fully funded study within the next generation of NIDCR centers on this topic of health disparities, the Centers for Research to Reduce Oral Health Disparities. It highlights the natural opportunity that these centers provide for multicenter, cross-disciplinary research and for research career pipelining for college and dental school students; with a focus, in this case, on minority students.Furthermore, this series of events demonstrates the rich potential that these types of research centers have to contribute in ways that far exceed the scientific outcomes that form their core. In this instance, the NMOHRC played a central-and critical, if unanticipated-role in contributing to two events of national significance, namely the presidential apology to the African American community for the research abuses of the USPHS-Tuskegee syphilis study and the establishment of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. Origins of the Tuskegee Legacy ProjectThe Tuskegee Legacy Project (TLP) has its origins in casual Web surfing by a biomedical reference librarian on her laptop computer on a fall evening in 1993 while relaxing in the dormer room, which served as the family den. Ms. B.J. Frey, Head Reference Librarian at the * Corresponding author. E-mail address: ralph.katz@nyu.edu (R.V. Katz).This research project was supported by NIDCR/NIH grant #P50 DE10592 (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/ University of Connecticut Northeastern Minority Oral Health Research Center), and is currently supported in the analysis phase by NIDCR/NIH grant #U54 DE 14257 (NYU Oral Cancer RAAHP Center).Research Centers supported by the NIH are fully intended to create a vortex of scientific activity that goes well beyond the direct scientific aims of the studies initially funded within those centers. The maxim is that the whole should be greater than the sum of its initial constituent studies or parts. We believe that NMOHRC did indeed achieve that maxim-even extending "the whole" to include broad societal impact, well beyond the scope of important, but mere, scientific outcomes-all within the concept and appropriate functions of a scientific NIHfunded research center. NIH Public Access

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Section: Brief Background Of the Usphs-tuskegee Syphilis Study And Rementioning

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The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits

Katz

Kegeles

Green

et al. 2003

Dental Clinics of North America

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“…5 Incomplete knowledge, misinformation and stigmatization have a direct negative impact on early diagnosis of the disorder and the commencement of therapy at an early stage. 6 Early psychiatric intervention is known to reduce morbidity and mortality in the patients with physical and mental illness. The nurse's role in this regard is being increasingly recognized.…”

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Knowledge and attitude of nurses regarding mental illness

Gurung

2014

J Chitwan Med Coll

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Although recent advances in psychiatry have increased our understanding towards psychiatric disorders, many people are unaware about mental illness and its treatment. The negative attitude is known hindrance of providing quality service to mental ill people. The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge and attitude about mental illness among nurses. The study was carried out in chitwan medical college, Bharatpur, Nepal. One hundred nurses working in different departments were the study population. A structured questionnaire was provided to the nurses for their responses. It was a purposive, descriptive study with 100 respondents of more than 2 years clinical experience. Almost all (99%) respondents mentioned that not all mentally ill are mad. Majority mentioned biochemical disturbances (99%) and genetic (51%) as cause of mental illness respectively. Respondents expressed their faith in psychiatrist (86%) in faith healers. This study revealed that there was overall adequate knowledge and positive attitude towards mentally ill people among the nurses.

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“…As a result, researchers have been able to identify mental illness stereotype endorsement as an important barrier to seeking help. For example, greater stereotype endorsement has been linked with more negative attitudes towards seeking treatment, lesser likelihood of perceiving a need for professional help when suffering from a mental illness, less likelihood of seeking treatment, and poorer treatment adherence (Leaf, Bruce, Tischler, & Holzer, 1987;Brown et al, 2010;Fung, Tsang, & Corrigan, 2008;Loya, Reddy, & Hinshaw, 2010;Coppens et al, 2013;Cooper, Corrigan, & Watson, 2003;Penn et al,. 2005; Eisenburg, Downs, Golberstein, & Zivin, 2009;Schomerus et al, 2012;Griffiths, Crips, Jorm, & Christensen, 2011;Raue & Sirey, 2011).…”

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Development of the Help-Seeker Stereotype Scale.

Hammer¹,

Vogel²

2017

Stigma and Health

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People's mental image of a person who performs a behavior predicts their willingness to engage in that behavior. In particular, a negative mental image of an individual who seeks mental health services may be an important barrier to seeking help. Therefore, over the course of 5 studies, the authors developed and examined evidence for the reliability and validity of the Help-Seeker Stereotype Scale (HSSS), which is designed to measure the strength of respondents' endorsement of negative stereotypes (e.g., unstable, needy, incompetent) about people who seek help from a psychologist. Using independent samples of students and community members, exploratory and confirmatory analysis in Studies 1 (N ϭ 587), 2 (N ϭ 594), and 3 (N ϭ 353) revealed that the 12-item HSSS reflects a single common source of variance. In Study 4 (N ϭ 225), the HSSS total score was found to correlate in expected ways with 4 theoretically related constructs: mental illness stereotype endorsement (r ϭ .51), public stigma of seeking help (r ϭ .20), stereotype application/harm (r ϭ .37), and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help (r ϭ Ϫ.25), providing convergent evidence of validity. Likewise, the HSSS total score accounted for unique variance (10%) in the self-stigma of seeking help beyond the variance accounted for by public stigma of seeking help (11%), providing initial incremental evidence of validity. Study 5 (N ϭ 150) found support for the HSSS' 4-week test-retest reliability (intercorrelation coefficient [2, k] ϭ .88).

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The relationship between demographic factors and attitudes toward mental health services

Cited by 164 publications

References 18 publications

The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits

The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits

Knowledge and attitude of nurses regarding mental illness

Development of the Help-Seeker Stereotype Scale.

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