Mental Health Literacy and Public Stigma: Examining the Link in 17 Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Literacy campaigns stand as the most common approach to raising awareness of mental health problems, increasing the use of services, and reducing stigma. However, research suggests that more informed public beliefs may have little effect or even trigger the stigma backlash. We aim to provide a wider, cross-national examination of how stigma varies globally and to examine whether the ability to recognize a mental health problem and see it as "a disease like any other" is the optimal roadmap for stigma reduction.

Methods

Data came from the Stigma in Global Context - Mental Health Study (SGC-MHS), which were collected from non-institutionalized adults 18 years of age or older through face-to-face interviews using vignettes meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manua

SUBMITTER: Ciciurkaite G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11376373 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature