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- Title
Involving Persons With Lived Experience to Improve Vocational Students' Stigmatizing Attitudes Toward Mental Disorders: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
- Authors
Martínez-Martínez, Concepción; Sánchez-Martínez, Vanessa; Aguilar-Gascón, Laura; María Ortega-Galán, Ángela; Diego Ramos-Pichardo, Juan
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: Mental health problems are estimated to affect one in six individuals in the European Union. Fifty percent of mental disorders start in adolescence, around the age of 14. The stigma associated with having a mental health problem is one of the main barriers to seeking help for psychiatric and psychological disorders among adolescents and young adults. Interventions to reduce social stigma could contribute to increased help-seeking behavior in this population. AIMS: To assess the effectiveness of a direct contact intervention in the classroom by persons with lived experience to reduce vocational students' stigmatizing attitudes. METHOD: One person with lived experience and one first-degree relative implemented a classroom intervention lasting 90 min. Its effectiveness was measured using a quasi-experimental study with a pretest–posttest design and within-subject control. RESULTS: A total of 128 students from three different Vocational and Technical Schools from Spain participated in the study. After the intervention, statistically significant differences were observed in the scores of 11 of the 13 dimensions measured with the Spanish Mental Illness Stigma Attribution Questionnaire (AQ-27-E) and the Community Attitudes toward Mental Illness (CAMI) questionnaires. No differences associated with gender or familiarity with the mental disorder were observed. CONCLUSION: Vocational students' negative attitudes and emotions can be improved through a direct contact intervention in the classroom involving people who have experienced a mental disorder themselves. The age range for optimal results with this type of intervention appears to be 18 to 20 years.
- Subjects
SPAIN; MENTAL illness treatment; SCHOOL environment; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; CLINICAL trials; SAMPLE size (Statistics); VOCATIONAL education; RESEARCH methodology; SOCIAL stigma; MANN Whitney U Test; STUDENTS with disabilities; EXPERIENCE; TREATMENT effectiveness; HUMAN services programs; PRE-tests &; post-tests; COMPARATIVE studies; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STUDENT attitudes; EMOTIONS; DATA analysis software; HIGH school students; INTELLECTUAL disabilities; EVALUATION
- Publication
Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 1, p160
- ISSN
1078-3903
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10783903221090528