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Relationships between anti-stigma programme awareness, disclosure comfort and intended help-seeking regarding a mental health problem

Background Anti-stigma programmes should aim to increase disclosure to those who can support someone with a mental health problem and appropriate professional help-seeking. Aims We investigated associations among public awareness of England's Time to Change anti-stigma campaign and: (a) comfort...

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Autores principales: Henderson, Claire, Robinson, Emily, Evans-Lacko, Sara, Thornicroft, Graham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5663972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28935661
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.116.195867
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Sumario:Background Anti-stigma programmes should aim to increase disclosure to those who can support someone with a mental health problem and appropriate professional help-seeking. Aims We investigated associations among public awareness of England's Time to Change anti-stigma campaign and: (a) comfort envisaged in disclosing a mental health problem to family and friends; (b) comfort in disclosing to an employer; and (c) intended professional help-seeking from a general practitioner, i.e. a physician working in primary care. Method Using data from a survey of a nationally representative sample of adults, we created separate logistic regression models to test for campaign awareness and other variables as predictors of comfort in disclosure and intended help-seeking. Results We found positive relationships between campaign awareness and comfort in disclosing to family and friends (odds ratio (OR) = 1.27, 95% CI 1.14–1.43) and to a current or prospective employer (OR=1.20, 95% CI 1.06–1.35); and likelihood of help-seeking (OR=1.18 95% CI 1.03–1.36). Conclusions Awareness of an anti-stigma campaign was associated with greater comfort in disclosing a mental health problem and intended help-seeking.