ArticlePsychiatry research2014
Mental health stigma and primary health care decisions.
Article in Psychiatry research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05639855 (Study on Mental Health-related Stigma), which is not on this map. Cited by 111 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Study on Mental Health-related Stigma: Attitudes and Values of University Students Towards People With Mental Disorders
Who cites it
111 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 302 citations in OpenAlex.
- Schizophrenia spectrum stigma in healthcare: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive behavioral therapy for primary care depression and anxiety: a secondary meta-analytic review using robust variance estimation in meta-regression.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Reducing Stigma in Media Professionals: Is there Room for Improvement? Results from a Systematic Review.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2017Pooled it
- Predictors of Mortality Following a Schizophrenia Spectrum Diagnosis: Evidence From the 20-Year Follow-up of the OPUS Randomized Controlled Trial.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Trial
- Physicians' attitudes to disability pension - impact of diagnosis: an experimental study.BMC health services research · 2021Trial
- Short video interventions to reduce mental health stigma: a multi-centre randomised controlled trial in nursing high schools.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Trial
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- Impact of Skill-Based Approaches in Reducing Stigma in Primary Care Physicians: Results from a Double-Blind, Parallel-Cluster, Randomized Controlled Trial.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2017Trial
- A desire to be embraced - the lived experience of encountering primary health care for a person with mental health problems. A descriptive phenomenological study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Article
- Perinatal mental health screening and care among those with pregnancy complications.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2026Review
- Experiences of Social Risk Screening in the Safety-Net Among Patients with Mental Health Needs.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Low-Burden Digital Phenotyping of Affective Risk: Positive Emoji Usage, Speech Rate, and Sleep Relate to College Student Mental Health.Research square · 2026Article
- Psychosomatic medicine service competency training in China's GP residency programs: a national survey from a CBME perspective.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Physician Attitudes Embedded Within Electronic Medical Records of Persons With and Without Serious Mental Illness.Schizophrenia bulletin · 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
- Stigmatizing attitudes toward mental illness among mental health professionals in Kazakhstan: A cross-sectional study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Challenging Stigma Through Experiential Learning in Clinical and Non-Clinical Mental Health Trainees.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Mental health stigma and its consequences: a systematic scoping review of pathways to discrimination and adverse outcomes.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Review
- COPD and Schizophrenia.Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) · 2025Article
- Impact of Brief Patient Exposure on Pre-Clinical U.S. Medical Student Bias Towards Mental Health.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
People with serious mental illness have higher rates of mortality and morbidity due to physical illness. In part, this occurs because primary care and other health providers sometimes make decisions contrary to typical care standards. This might occur because providers endorse mental illness stigma, which seems inversely related to prior personal experience with mental illness and mental health care. In this study, 166 health care providers (42.2% primary care, 57.8% mental health practice) from the Veteran׳s Affairs (VA) medical system completed measures of stigma characteristics, expected adherence, and subsequent health decisions (referral to a specialist and refill pain prescription) about a male patient with schizophrenia who was seeking help for low back pain due to arthritis. Research participants reported comfort with previous mental health interventions. Path analyses showed participants who endorsed stigmatizing characteristics of the patient were more likely to believe he would not adhere to treatment and hence, less likely to refer to a specialist or refill his prescription. Endorsement of stigmatizing characteristics was inversely related to comfort with one׳s previous mental health care. Implications of these findings will inform a program meant to enhance VA provider attitudes about people with mental illness, as well as their health decisions.
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