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Challenging the Public Stigma of Mental Illness: A Meta-Analysis of Outcome Studies
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OBJECTIVE: Public stigma and discrimination have pernicious effects on the lives of people with serious mental illnesses. Given a plethora of research on changing the stigma of mental illness, this article reports on a meta-analysis that examined the effects of antistigma approaches that included protest or social activism, education of the public, and contact with persons with mental illness. METHODS: The investigators heeded published guidelines for systematic literature reviews in health care. This comprehensive and systematic review included articles in languages other than English, dissertations, and population studies. The search included all articles from the inception of the databases until October 2010. Search terms fell into three categories: stigma, mental illness (such as schizophrenia and depression), and change program (including contact and education). The search yielded 72 articles and reports meeting the inclusion criteria of relevance to changing public stigma and sufficient data and statistics to complete analyses. Studies represented 38,364 research participants from 14 countries. Effect sizes were computed for all studies and for each treatment condition within studies. Comparisons between effect sizes were conducted with a weighted one-way analysis of variance. RESULTS: Overall, both education and contact had positive effects on reducing stigma for adults and adolescents with a mental illness. However, contact was better than education at reducing stigma for adults. For adolescents, the opposite pattern was found: education was more effective. Overall, face-to-face contact was more effective than contact by video. CONCLUSIONS: Future research is needed to identify moderators of the effects of both education and contact.
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“Self-stigma (internalized mental illness stigma leading to diminished self-esteem and self-efficacy) and public stigma (the prejudice and discrimination endorsed by the general population that affects a person) about mental illness are pervasive [21, 22].”
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“These findings are perhaps unsurprising as education and awareness are one of the key strategies to tackle stigma. 18 , 36”
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“In contrast, among children and adolescents, education yielded a larger effect than contact.”
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“For education, the meta-analysis effect sizes were d=0•3 for attitudes, d=0•14 for affect, and d=0•25 for behavioural intentions.”
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“In this review, effect sizes were significantly greater after in-person contact than after video contact.”
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“Contact and education both improved attitudes and behavioural intentions towards stigma, but contact resulted in significantly greater positive changes among adults.”
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“For social contact, the respective effect sizes were d=0•4, d=-0•06 (nonsignificant), and d=0•19, respectively.”
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“Its findings are better compared with a previous meta-analysis [39], which reported only a small effect of contact interventions for people with mental illness, and for the educative intervention, both classical and common-type interventions.”
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- Authors
- Corrigan, P. W., Morris, S. B., Michaels, P. J., Rafacz, J. D., & Rüsch, N.
- Affiliations
- Illinois Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Psychiatric Services
- Published
- 2012-10
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 963-973
- ISSN
- 0022-1597 (ISSN-L)
- 1075-2730
- 1557-9700
- OpenAlex
- W2105795344
- Cited by
- 1,680
- References
- 105
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychiatric Services (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychology and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- public stigma, mental health stigma, social contact, public education, face-to-face contact, adolescents, adults, schizophrenia, depression, stigma reduction
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Attitude to Health, Mental Disorders, Female, Health Education, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Middle Aged, Social Change, Stereotyping, Mentally Ill Persons, Persons with Psychiatric Disorders, Young Adult, Social Stigma, Social Discrimination
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