Creating a hierarchy of mental health stigma: testing the effect of psychiatric diagnosis on stigma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Levels of mental health stigma experienced can vary as a function of the presenting mental health problem (e.g. diagnosis and symptoms). However, these studies are limited because they exclusively use pairwise comparisons. A more comprehensive examination of diagnosis-specific stigma is needed.

Aims

The aim of our study was to determine how levels of mental health stigma vary in relation to a number of psychiatric diagnoses, and identify what attributions predict levels of diagnosis-specific stigma.

Method

We conducted an online survey with members of the public. Participants were assessed in terms of how much stigma they had, and their attributions toward, nine different case vignettes, each describing a different mental health diagnosis.

Results

We

SUBMITTER: Hazell CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9534883 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature