Public beliefs about and attitudes towards people with mental illness: a review of population studies.
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OBJECTIVE To provide a review of population-based attitude research in psychiatry during the past 15 years. METHOD An electronic search using PubMed, Medline, and Academic Search Premier plus a hand search of the literature was carried out for studies on public beliefs about mental illness and attitudes towards the mentally ill published between 1990 and 2004. RESULTS Thirty-three national studies and 29 local and regional studies were identified, mostly from Europe. Although the majority are of descriptive nature, more recent publications include studies testing theory-based models of the stigmatization of mentally ill people, analyses of time trends and cross-cultural comparisons, and evaluations of antistigma interventions. CONCLUSION Attitude research in psychiatry made considerable progress over the past 15 years. However, there is still much to be done to provide an empirical basis for evidence-based interventions to reduce misconceptions about mental illness and improve attitudes towards persons with mental illness.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica
دوره 113 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006