Tailored Mental Health Literacy Training Improves Mental Health Knowledge and Confidence among Canadian Farmers

Mental health literacy among residents in Shanghai

BACKGROUND The recent adoption of China's new national mental health law provides a good opportunity to obtain baseline information about community mental health literacy in the country. AIM Assess knowledge and attitudes about mental disorders among residents in Shanghai. METHODS A total of 1953 residents aged 15 or above selected from all 19 districts in Shanghai completed two self-report...

Empathy and Mental Health Literacy

Background: There is growing literature on mental health literacy (MHL), but few studies have conducted research on anything more than demographic predictors of MHL. We believe that those who are more empathic would be more interested in and more knowledgeable about mental illnesses. Objective: This study was concerned to establish whether people who were more empathic would have higher MHL. Me...

Mental health of British farmers.

AIMS To estimate the prevalence of neurotic symptoms in a sample of British farmers, to investigate whether farming characteristics are associated with psychiatric morbidity, and to test the hypothesis that British farmers have a higher prevalence of depression and thoughts of life not worth living than the British household population. METHODS A total of 425 farmers from Hereford, Norwich, a...

Mental health literacy : Public knowledge and beliefs about permissions

Mental health literacy and the anxiety disorders

Context: This study set out to investigate the mental health literacy (MHL) about eight anxiety disorders (ADs), using vignette methodology. Methods: In all 317 British Adult participants completed a questionnaire with vignettes describing eight anxiety disorders including OCD, PTSD, Agoraphobia, Specific Phobias, Social Phobia, Separation Anxiety Disorder, GAD and Panic Disorder. Recognition, ...