{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["17"],"submitter":["Zhou L"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Lack of mental health knowledge (MHK) and stigma toward mental illness pose significant barriers to help-seeking behaviors among Chinese high school students, amid intense academic pressures and cultural influences. Traditional aggregate scoring methods overlook dynamic interconnections between specific knowledge items and stigma attitudes. This study applies network analysis to model MHK and stigma as interconnected systems, identifying central nodes, bridges, and potential intervention targets in a large adolescent sample.<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 12,537 high school students in Sichuan Province, China, between October 2024 and January 2025.The MHK was assessed using the 20-item Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (MHKQ), and the sti"],"journal":["Frontiers in psychiatry"],"pagination":["1728556"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12894237"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Network analysis of mental health knowledge and stigma among high school students in Sichuan, China."],"pmcid":["PMC12894237"],"pubmed_authors":["Deng XP","Wen Y","Zhou XF","Zhou L","Wang C","Xiao Y","Tu ZM","Cai J","Ahmad J","He ZL","Wang XL","Yang YY","Ran MS","Jin H","Zhang XF","Liu YH","Liu B"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Network analysis of mental health knowledge and stigma among high school students in Sichuan, China.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Lack of mental health knowledge (MHK) and stigma toward mental illness pose significant barriers to help-seeking behaviors among Chinese high school students, amid intense academic pressures and cultural influences. Traditional aggregate scoring methods overlook dynamic interconnections between specific knowledge items and stigma attitudes. This study applies network analysis to model MHK and stigma as interconnected systems, identifying central nodes, bridges, and potential intervention targets in a large adolescent sample.<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 12,537 high school students in Sichuan Province, China, between October 2024 and January 2025.The MHK was assessed using the 20-item Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (MHKQ), and the sti","dates":{"release":"2026-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2026","modification":"2026-07-15T17:31:05.936Z","creation":"2026-07-07T03:10:01.461Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12894237","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41696463"],"doi":["10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1728556"]}}