Factors Related to Perceived Stigma in Parents of Children and Adolescents in Outpatient Mental Healthcare.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about factors contributing to perceived stigma in parents of children and adolescents with behavioral and emotional problems in outpatient mental healthcare. We aimed to identify the most relevant factors related to perceived parental stigma using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression including a broad range of factors across six domains: (1) child characteristics, (2) characteristics of the primary parent, (3) parenting and family characteristics, (4) treatment-related characteristics, (5) sociodemographic characteristics, and (6) social-environmental characteristics. We adapted the Parents' Perceived Stigma of Service Seeking scale to measure perceived public stigma and affiliate stigma in 312 parents (87.8% mothers) during the first treatment

SUBMITTER: Drent HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9566109 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature