"It's Tough to Be a Black Man with Schizophrenia": Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Video Intervention to Reduce Public Stigma.

ABSTRACT:

Background and hypothesis

Racial discrimination and public stigma toward Black individuals living with schizophrenia create disparities in treatment-seeking and engagement. Brief, social-contact-based video interventions efficaciously reduce stigma. It remains unclear whether including racial identity experiences in video narrative yields greater stigma reduction. We hypothesized that we would replicate findings showing sustained stigma reduction in video-intervention groups vs control and that Black participants would show greater stigma reduction and emotional engagement than non-Black participants only for a racial-insights video presenting a Black protagonist.

Study design

Recruiting using a crowdsourcing platform, we randomized 1351 participants ages 18-30 to (a) brief

SUBMITTER: Amsalem D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11059800 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature