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Evaluation of the impact of a social media–focused intervention on reducing mental health stigma among pharmacy students
INTRODUCTION: Stigma may negatively affect the treatment of people with mental illness, and pharmacists have the opportunity to play a key role in reducing mental health stigma. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a pharmacy student–focused educational intervention impacts stigma towa...
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College of Psychiatric & Neurologic Pharmacists
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6513054/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31123657 http://dx.doi.org/10.9740/mhc.2019.05.110 |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Stigma may negatively affect the treatment of people with mental illness, and pharmacists have the opportunity to play a key role in reducing mental health stigma. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a pharmacy student–focused educational intervention impacts stigma toward people with mental illness. METHODS: A 90-minute interactive learning module, which used social media and fictional case scenarios, was developed and administered to third-year pharmacy students (n = 145) during small group class sessions. The Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC), a validated tool to measure stigma, was administered immediately before and after the intervention. Pre-post OMS-HC scores were analyzed using related samples t tests. RESULTS: A total of 93 presurvey and postsurvey OMS-HC scores were paired and analyzed. Based on the 15-item version of the scale, stigma was significantly reduced, consistent with a score reduction of 4.6%, from 36.8 (95% confidence interval, 35.4-38.1) to 35.1 (95% confidence interval, 33.8-36.3), P < .0001. DISCUSSION: Educational interventions for pharmacy students that use social media applications might reduce mental health stigma. After the intervention, most participants believed that stigma impacts the treatment of mental illness, and that pharmacists may play a role in changing mental health stigma. |
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spelling | pubmed-65130542019-05-23 Evaluation of the impact of a social media–focused intervention on reducing mental health stigma among pharmacy students Douglass, Mark Moy, Benjamin Ment Health Clin Original Research INTRODUCTION: Stigma may negatively affect the treatment of people with mental illness, and pharmacists have the opportunity to play a key role in reducing mental health stigma. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a pharmacy student–focused educational intervention impacts stigma toward people with mental illness. METHODS: A 90-minute interactive learning module, which used social media and fictional case scenarios, was developed and administered to third-year pharmacy students (n = 145) during small group class sessions. The Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC), a validated tool to measure stigma, was administered immediately before and after the intervention. Pre-post OMS-HC scores were analyzed using related samples t tests. RESULTS: A total of 93 presurvey and postsurvey OMS-HC scores were paired and analyzed. Based on the 15-item version of the scale, stigma was significantly reduced, consistent with a score reduction of 4.6%, from 36.8 (95% confidence interval, 35.4-38.1) to 35.1 (95% confidence interval, 33.8-36.3), P < .0001. DISCUSSION: Educational interventions for pharmacy students that use social media applications might reduce mental health stigma. After the intervention, most participants believed that stigma impacts the treatment of mental illness, and that pharmacists may play a role in changing mental health stigma. College of Psychiatric & Neurologic Pharmacists 2019-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6513054/ /pubmed/31123657 http://dx.doi.org/10.9740/mhc.2019.05.110 Text en © 2019 CPNP. The Mental Health Clinician is a publication of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Douglass, Mark Moy, Benjamin Evaluation of the impact of a social media–focused intervention on reducing mental health stigma among pharmacy students |
title | Evaluation of the impact of a social media–focused intervention on reducing mental health stigma among pharmacy students |
title_full | Evaluation of the impact of a social media–focused intervention on reducing mental health stigma among pharmacy students |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of the impact of a social media–focused intervention on reducing mental health stigma among pharmacy students |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of the impact of a social media–focused intervention on reducing mental health stigma among pharmacy students |
title_short | Evaluation of the impact of a social media–focused intervention on reducing mental health stigma among pharmacy students |
title_sort | evaluation of the impact of a social media–focused intervention on reducing mental health stigma among pharmacy students |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6513054/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31123657 http://dx.doi.org/10.9740/mhc.2019.05.110 |
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