Trial reportSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2015
Anxiety, bulimia, drug and alcohol addiction, depression, and schizophrenia: what do you think about their aetiology, dangerousness, social distance, and treatment? A latent class analysis approach.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Stigma in substance-based and behavioural addictions: A systematic review.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Pooled it
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- Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance, system justification, and conservative political ideology as predictors of mental health stigma: The Hungarian case.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Article
- A quantitative survey measure of moral evaluations of patient substance misuse among health professionals in California, urban France, and urban China.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2023Article
- Weight stigma in patients with overweight and obesity: validation of the Italian Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ).Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Effects of Human Rights Sensitivity on Empathy and Working Relationship in Mental Health Social Workers: Using Vignettes of Schizophrenia and Alcoholism.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Opioid Use Stigma: An Examination of Student Attitudes on Harm Reduction Strategies.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2022Article
- Views of Schizophrenia Among Future Healthcare Professionals: Differences in Relation to Diagnostic Labelling, Causal Explanations, and Type of Academic Degree Program.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2021Article
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- A cross-sectional survey of stigma towards people with a mental illness in the general public. The role of employment, domestic noise disturbance and age.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
- The Relationship between Individual-Level and Context-Level Factors and Social Distancing from Patients with Depression in Taiwan: A Multilevel Analysis of National Surveys.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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- Training in psychotherapy: a call for embodied and psychophysiological approaches.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2019Article
- A qualitative study on the stigma experienced by people with mental health problems and epilepsy in the Philippines.BMC psychiatry · 2018Article
- Emotion Regulation and Parental Bonding in Families of Adolescents With Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Assessing Mental Illness Stigma: A Complex Issue.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- "I don't have to know why it snows, I just have to shovel it!": Addiction Recovery, Genetic Frameworks, and Biological Citizenship.BioSocieties · 2017Article
- Stigma and substance use disorders: an international phenomenon.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2017Review
- Etiological Beliefs, Treatments, Stigmatizing Attitudes toward Schizophrenia. What Do Italians and Israelis Think?Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- The role of secure attachment, empathic self-efficacy, and stress perception in causal beliefs related to mental illness - a cross-cultural study: Italy versus Israel.Psychology research and behavior management · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeMental illness stigma is a serious societal problem and a critical impediment to treatment seeking for mentally ill people. To improve the understanding of mental illness stigma, this study focuses on the simultaneous analysis of people's aetiological beliefs, attitudes (i.e. perceived dangerousness and social distance), and recommended treatments related to several mental disorders by devising an over-arching latent structure that could explain the relations among these variables.
methodsThree hundred and sixty university students randomly received an unlabelled vignette depicting one of six mental disorders to be evaluated on the four variables on a Likert-type scale. A one-factor Latent Class Analysis (LCA) model was hypothesized, which comprised the four manifest variables as indicators and the mental disorder as external variable.
resultsThe main findings were the following: (a) a one-factor LCA model was retrieved; (b) alcohol and drug addictions are the most strongly stigmatized; (c) a realistic opinion about the causes and treatment of schizophrenia, anxiety, bulimia, and depression was associated to lower prejudicial attitudes and social rejection.
conclusionBeyond the general appraisal of mental illness an individual might have, the results generally point to the acknowledgement of the specific features of different diagnostic categories. The implications of the present results are discussed in the framework of a better understanding of mental illness stigma.
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