Cited by 95Schizophrenia research and treatmentMental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology and Mental Health

Stigma related to labels and symptoms in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis

Open access
Yang, Lawrence H., Link, Bruce G., Ben-David, Shelly, Gill, Kelly E., Girgis, Ragy R., Brucato, Gary, Wonpat-Borja, Ahtoy J., Corcoran, Cheryl M.·2015·Schizophrenia Research

Abstract

Background Despite advances that the psychosis "clinical high-risk" (CHR) identification offers, risk of stigma exists. Awareness of and agreement with stereotypes has not yet been evaluated in CHR individuals. Furthermore, the relative stigma associated with symptoms, as opposed to the label of risk, is not known, which is critical because CHR identification may reduce symptom-related stigma.Methods Thirty-eight CHR subjects were ascertained using standard measures from the Center of Prevention and Evaluation/New York State Psychiatric Institute/ Columbia University. Labeling-related measures adapted to the CHR group included "stereotype awareness and self-stigma" ("Stereotype awareness", "Stereotype Agreement", "Negative emotions [shame]"), and a parallel measure of "Negative emotions (shame)" for symptoms. These measures were examined in relation to symptoms of anxiety and depression, adjusting for core CHR symptoms (e.g. attenuated psychotic symptoms).Results CHR participants endorsed awareness of mental illness stereotypes, but largely did not themselves agree with these stereotypes. Furthermore, CHR participants described more stigma associated with symptoms than they did with the risk-label itself. Shame related to symptoms was associated with depression, while shame related to the risk-label was associated with anxiety.Conclusion Both stigma of the risk-label and of symptoms contribute to the experience of CHR individuals. Stereotype awareness was relatively high and labeling-related shame was associated with increased anxiety. Yet limited agreement with stereotypes indicated that labeling-related stigma had not fully permeated self-conceptions. Furthermore, symptom-related stigma appeared more salient overall and was linked with increased depression, suggesting that alleviating symptom-related shame via treating symptoms might provide major benefit.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.schres.2015.08.004

Cites

43 of 43 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Acceptability of help-seeking may be undermined by close friends, family, colleagues and health professionals, further limiting sources of support.

    “Acceptability of help-seeking may also be undermined by close friends, family, colleagues and health professionals which further limit sources of support. (6)”

    From The impact of digital interventions on help-seeking behaviour for mental health problems: a systematic literature review (2022) · cites this paper as [6]

    The Discussion (section 4.1; page unavailable) describes anticipated rejection and shame about others discovering a person’s clinical-high-risk status. The Methods (section 2.3; page unavailable) assess interpersonal stigma and perceived support. Neither passage says that friends, family, colleagues or health professionals undermine the acceptability of help-seeking or thereby limit sources of support. (LLM, conf=0.78)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • Stigma is caused by the service user's experience of symptoms rather than induced by the clinician's designation.

    “caused by the service user's experience of symptoms rather than induced by the clinician's designation 265”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Kleim B Vauth R Adam G Stieglitz RD Hayward P Corrigan P 2008 Perceived stigma predicts low self-efficacy and poor coping in schizophrenia Journal of Mental Health 17 5 482 491

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Yang, L. H., Link, B. G., Ben-David, S., Gill, K. E., Girgis, R. R., Brucato, G., Wonpat-Borja, A. J., & Corcoran, C. M.
Affiliations
  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
  • University of California, Riverside (US)
  • Catholic University of America (US)
  • New York State Psychiatric Institute (US)
  • Columbia University (US)
Corresponding author
Yang, Lawrence H.
Venue
Schizophrenia Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-10
Volume
168
Issue
1-2
Pages
9-15
ISSN
0920-9964 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2095846026
Cited by
95
References
43
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 2 · 2012: 1
FWCI
7.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Schizophrenia Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • NIMH (1 R01 MH096027-01, K23 MH06627901A2)
  • Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award (#17539)
  • Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation
  • Calderone Prize
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychology and Mental Health
Keywords
clinical high risk for psychosis
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Awareness, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychotic Disorders, Self Concept, Stereotyping, Risk Assessment, Young Adult, Social Stigma, Prodromal Symptoms

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review