Trial reportThe British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science2014
Efficacy of Coming Out Proud to reduce stigma's impact among people with mental illness: pilot randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 2014. 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 57 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Adaptation and Evaluation of the Honest Open Proud Program for Adolescents With Mental Illness
Adaptation and Evaluation of the Honest, Open, Proud Program for Soldiers with Mental Illness
Who cites it
57 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 211 citations in OpenAlex.
- What Is the Value of Lived Experience Within Mental Health Professionals, and How Can It Influence Practice? A Systematic Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Does the peer-led Honest, Open, Proud program reduce stigma's impact for everyone? An individual participant data meta-regression analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Pooled it
- The effectiveness of peer support for individuals with mental illness: systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Stigma and Peer-Led Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Honest, Open, Proud to support disclosure decisions and to decrease stigma's impact among people with mental illness: conceptual review and meta-analysis of program efficacy.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of group peer support interventions for people experiencing mental health conditions.BMC psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- The peer-led Honest, Open, Proud program to decrease the impact of mental illness stigma among German military personnel: randomized controlled trial.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Trial
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Group CBT-Based Intervention Aiming to Reduce Self-Stigma and Improve Recovery-Related Outcomes in People with Severe Mental Disorders: Randomised Controlled Trial.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2024Trial
- Honest, Open, Proud (HOP) for people with mental illness in Hong Kong: a randomized controlled trial.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Trial
- Efficacy of the peer-led ''Honest, Open, Proud'' group program to improve stigma stress and quality of life in adolescents with mental illness: randomized controlled trial.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Real-World Effectiveness of the Peer-Led Honest, Open, Proud Programme for Self-Stigma Among Adults With Mental Illness: A Pragmatic, Multicentre, Randomised Controlled Trial.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2026Article
- Social inclusion of people with severe mental illness: a review of current practices, evidence and unmet needs, and future directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
- Validating the Arabic Coming Out with Mental Illness Scale (COMIS-Ar).Oman medical journal · 2025Article
- Awareness of the risk of monkeypox among men having sex with men: a cross-sectional survey in Chongqing, China.American journal of translational research · 2025Article
- Helping people help themselves? Effectiveness of a self-help group for patients with alcohol use disorders-a pilot study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Evaluating Stuttering Self-Stigma and Its Relationship to Adverse Impact in Children and Adolescents With the Child Stuttering Self-Stigma Scale.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- A study of the mediating effect of social support on self-disclosure and demoralization in Chinese older adult homebound breast cancer patients.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Positive, Open, Proud: an adapted disclosure-based intervention to reduce HIV stigma.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Review
- Comparing the stigma experiences and comfort with disclosure in Dutch and English populations of people living with dementia.Dementia (London, England) · 2023Article
- "The Best of Both Worlds": Experiences of young people attending groups co-facilitated by peer workers and clinicians in a youth mental health service.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2023Article
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14 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundFacing frequent stigma and discrimination, many people with mental illness have to choose between secrecy and disclosure in different settings. Coming Out Proud (COP), a 3-week peer-led group intervention, offers support in this domain in order to reduce stigma's negative impact.
aimsTo examine COP's efficacy to reduce negative stigma-related outcomes and to promote adaptive coping styles (Current Controlled Trials number: ISRCTN43516734).
methodIn a pilot randomised controlled trial, 100 participants with mental illness were assigned to COP or a treatment-as-usual control condition. Outcomes included self-stigma, empowerment, stigma stress, secrecy and perceived benefits of disclosure.
resultsIntention-to-treat analyses found no effect of COP on self-stigma or empowerment, but positive effects on stigma stress, disclosure-related distress, secrecy and perceived benefits of disclosure. Some effects diminished during the 3-week follow-up period.
conclusionsComing Out Proud has immediate positive effects on disclosure- and stigma stress-related variables and may thus alleviate stigma's negative impact.
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