Trial reportBMC medical education2012
Effectiveness of contact-based education for reducing mental illness-related stigma in pharmacy students.
Trial report in BMC medical education, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 83 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
83 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 164 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to Reduce Mental Health Stigma in Young People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Indirect social contact interventions to reduce mental health-related stigma in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Workforce interventions to improve access to emergency contraception pills: a systematic review of current evidence in low- and middle-income countries and recommendations for improving performance.BMC health services research · 2015Pooled it
- The clinical impact of pharmacist services on mental health collaborative teams: A systematic review.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAPooled it
- Educational interventions to reduce mental health stigma toward patients among healthcare professionals and trainees: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Review
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- Dignity in mental health care: the conceptual connections between sense of dignity, stigma and self-stigma among people with mental disorder diagnoses.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Factors influencing mental health literacy and its relationship with learning weariness in middle school students: a person-centered latent profile analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Suicide prevention for international students: A single-arm mixed methods evaluation of the LivingWorks safeTALK program in Australia.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- The Effectiveness of a Cell Phone eHealth App in Changing Knowledge, Stigmatizing Attitudes, and Intention to Seek Help Associated With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Pilot Questionnaire Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Article
- Opinions and experiences on the provision of care to people with mental illnesses: a qualitative study with Doctor of Pharmacy graduates after a rotation in psychiatry.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2023Review
- 'A human face and voice': transgender patient-educator and medical student perspectives on gender-diversity teaching.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Psychiatrists' occupational stigma conceptualization, measurement, and intervention: A literature review.World journal of psychiatry · 2023Review
- Validation of the Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC): Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Brazilian Version.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Mental Health Literacy and Stigma in a Municipality in the North of Portugal: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Mental health: "it is a subject where most pharmacists [or pharmacy] students have no more knowledge than the general public".Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2023Article
- Podcasts as a Method to Deliver Education on Stigma Surrounding Opioid Use Disorder.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The impact of educational interventions on modifying health practitioners' attitudes and practice in treating people with borderline personality disorder: an integrative review.Systematic reviews · 2022Review
23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundA strategy for reducing mental illness-related stigma in health-profession students is to include contact-based sessions in their educational curricula. In such sessions students are able to interact socially with a person that has a mental illness. We sought to evaluate the effectiveness of this strategy in a multi-centre study of pharmacy students.
methodsThe study was a randomized controlled trial conducted at three sites. Because it was necessary that all students receive the contact-based sessions, the students were randomized either to an early or late intervention, with the late intervention group not having participated in the contact-based education at the time when the primary outcome was assessed. The primary outcome, stigma, was assessed using an attitudes scale called the Opening Minds Survey for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC).
resultsWe initially confirmed that outcomes were homogeneous across study centres, centre by group interaction, p = 0.76. The results were pooled across the three study centres. A significant reduction in stigma was observed in association with the contact-based sessions (mean change 4.3 versus 1.5, t=2.1, p=0.04). The effect size (Cohen's d) was 0.45. A similar reduction was seen in the control group when they later received the intervention.
conclusionsContact-based education is an effective method of reducing stigma during pharmacy education. These results add to a growing literature confirming the effectiveness of contact-based strategies for stigma reduction in health profession trainees.
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