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Mental Health Literacy: Past, Present, and Future

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“…to capture all components of MHL, and evidence regarding the use of vignettes to improve MHL is limited as it becomes difficult to differentiate between simple symptoms of disorders and full syndromes and daily experience of distress (Pescosolido et al., 2008; see a review, Kutcher et al., 2016).”
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Authors: Kutcher, S., Wei, Y., & Coniglio, C.
Affiliations: Dalhousie University (CA)
BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services (CA)
Corresponding author: Kutcher, Stan
ORCID: Kutcher, Stan
Wei, Yifeng
Venue: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2016-03
Volume: 61
Issue: 3
Pages: 154-158
ISSN: 0706-7437 (ISSN-L)
1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/0706743715616609
PMC: PMC4813415
OpenAlex: W2333387201
Cited by: 918
References: 29
Citations by year: 2026: 143 · 2025: 152 · 2024: 151 · 2023: 119 · 2022: 107 · 2021: 85 · 2020: 82 · 2019: 35 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 6
FWCI: 39.83
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: Health Canada
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mental Health and Patient Involvement
Keywords: mental health literacy, mental illness, public understanding of mental health
MeSH terms: Mental Disorders, Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Mental Health, Health Literacy

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