Contact With Persons With Mental Illness and Willingness to Live Next Door to Them: Two Waves of a California Survey of Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study sought to extend findings from previous studies of the association between having had interpersonal contact with individuals with mental illness and the desire to avoid contact with them (i.e., social distance).

Methods

The authors used a longitudinal design with a representative sample of 1,057 California adults who completed a survey in 2013 (wave 1) and 2014 (wave 2). Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were used to test whether demographic characteristics and changes in past-year contact with individuals with mental illness affected perceptions of the dangerousness of individuals with mental illness and willingness to move next door to someone with mental illness.

Results

An increase in contact with someone with mental il

SUBMITTER: Shearer AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12912251 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature