Stigmatization of people with mental illness - a matter of milieu-specific worldviews? Results from a population-based survey in Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite numerous awareness campaigns and anti-stigma programs, people with mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, are still stigmatized. Although the society is both cause and solution, societal-level conditions, such as society's customs and policies that legitimize and perpetuate stigmatization is often neglected. We used a milieu approach to investigate how shared social, cultural and political orientations and expectations are associated with manifestations of the mental-illness related stigma.

Methods

We analyzed cross-sectional data from 3,042 adults aged ≥18 years from a national vignette-based representative survey on the stigma of mental illness in Germany from 2020. For milieu classification, we used an established population segmentation tool based

SUBMITTER: Spahlholz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11810944 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature