Racial-Ethnic Differences in Mental Health Stigma and Changes Over the Course of a Statewide Campaign.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The authors examined whether shifts in mental health-related stigma differed across racial-ethnic groups over the course of a California statewide antistigma campaign and whether racial-ethnic disparities were present at the beginning of the campaign and 1 year later.

Methods

Participants had taken part in the 2013 and 2014 California Statewide Surveys (CASSs), a longitudinal, random-digit-dialing telephone survey of California adults ages ≥18 years (N=1,285). Surveys were administered in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Khmer, and Hmong.

Results

Compared with Whites, Latino and Asian respondents who preferred to take the survey in their native language had higher levels of mental health-related stigma on several domains of the 2013 CASS. S

SUBMITTER: Wong EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8500546 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature