Kosyluk Kristin, Marshall Jennifer, Macias Diana Rivera, Andrus Donald, Guerra Daniela, Robinson Megan, Ostos Antonia, Chapman Stephanie
The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Avenue, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA.
This Is My Brave, Ashburn, VA, USA.
Community Ment Health J. 2018 Apr;54(3):276-281. doi: 10.1007/s10597-018-0238-8. Epub 2018 Jan 25.
This Is My Brave (TIMB) is a contact-based mental illness stigma reduction program, set in theaters, meant to reduce stigma, increase beliefs about empowerment and recovery, and improve attitudes towards treatment seeking for mental health concerns. The authors conducted the first empirical evaluation of TIMB using a pre-post survey design. Approximately 481 audience members of TIMB performances were invited to complete a survey of stigmatizing attitudes towards mental illness, beliefs about recovery and empowerment, and willingness to seek treatment at pre-and post-performance. Analyses of responses from 372 participants using paired samples t-tests revealed changes in the desired direction on all variables from pre-test to post-test. Audience members experienced a decrease in stigma, improvements in beliefs about recovery and empowerment, and greater willingness to seek treatment. TIMB is a promising stigma-reduction program and there is a need for a more detailed investigation of the program's impact using more rigorous methodology.
“这就是我的勇敢”（TIMB）是一个以剧院为场地、基于接触的减少精神疾病污名化项目，旨在减少污名化，增强对赋权和康复的信念，并改善对因心理健康问题寻求治疗的态度。作者采用前后调查设计对TIMB进行了首次实证评估。约481名观看TIMB演出的观众被邀请在演出前和演出后完成一项关于对精神疾病的污名化态度、对康复和赋权的信念以及寻求治疗意愿的调查。对372名参与者的回答进行配对样本t检验分析后发现，从测试前到测试后，所有变量都朝着预期方向发生了变化。观众的污名化程度降低，对康复和赋权的信念得到改善，寻求治疗的意愿更强。TIMB是一个很有前景的减少污名化项目，需要使用更严格的方法对该项目的影响进行更详细的调查。
