减少青少年对寻求心理健康治疗的污名化。
Reducing stigma toward seeking mental health treatment among adolescents.
作者信息
Saporito J M, Ryan C, Teachman B A
机构信息
University of Virginia.
出版信息
Stigma Res Action. 2011;1(2):9-21.
PURPOSE
This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce explicit and implicit stigma-relevant attitudes toward mental illness and treatment-seeking and behavioural indicators of willingness to seek treatment.
METHODS
Adolescents were randomly assigned to the experimental (education about mental illness and treatment involving psychoeducation and contact (via DVD) with an affected individual) or control intervention (education about tobacco).
RESULTS
Findings suggest the stigma intervention was effective at reducing explicit but not implicit stigma-relevant attitudes. As hypothesized, participants receiving the experimental intervention reported less explicit stigma toward treatment and greater openness to personally seek treatment if they had also reported prior mental health treatment.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
These findings support the potential for a brief educational intervention among adolescents to reduce negative attitudes toward mental health treatment, but raise questions about how to effectively address implicit stigma as well as the importance of translating stigma reduction into behavior changes.
目的
本研究考察了一项干预措施在减少对精神疾病的显性和隐性污名相关态度以及寻求治疗的行为指标方面的有效性。
方法
青少年被随机分配到实验性干预组（关于精神疾病和治疗的教育，包括心理教育以及通过DVD与一名患者接触）或对照组干预组（关于烟草的教育）。
结果
研究结果表明，污名干预在减少显性污名相关态度方面有效，但在减少隐性污名相关态度方面无效。正如所假设的那样，接受实验性干预的参与者报告称，对治疗的显性污名较少，并且如果他们之前也报告过接受过心理健康治疗，那么他们更愿意亲自寻求治疗。
结论与启示
这些研究结果支持了在青少年中进行简短教育干预以减少对心理健康治疗的负面态度的可能性，但也提出了如何有效解决隐性污名以及将减少污名转化为行为改变的重要性等问题。
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