ArticleCanadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2018
Examining the Application of the Opening Minds Survey in the Community Health Centre Setting.
Article in Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05578066 (Reducing Stigma Toward Mental Illness and Substance Use Issues in Primary Health Care in Chile), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Reducing Stigma Toward Mental Illness and Substance Use Issues in Primary Health Care in Chile: A Cluster Randomized Control Trial.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessment of clinician well-being and the factors that influence it using validated questionnaires: a systematic review.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Adapting the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Healthcare Providers to Measure Opioid-Related Stigma.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Evaluation of a Pilot Intervention to Reduce Mental Health and Addiction Stigma in Primary Care Settings.Journal of community health · 2019Article
- Validation of the Opening Minds Scale and patterns of stigma in Chilean primary health care.PloS one · 2019Article
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10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveStigma has been identified as a complex and problematic issue. It acts as a major barrier to accessing care and can exacerbate the experience of a health condition, particularly for clients with mental illness and substance use issues. Scales designed to assess stigmatising attitudes towards those with mental illness and substance use problems among health care providers are necessary to evaluate programs designed to reduce that stigma. The goal of this study was to evaluate the internal reliability and external validity of the Opening Minds Survey for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC).
methodsThe current study examined the use of the OMS-HC in assessing stigma held by Community Health Centre (CHC) staff towards clients with mental and/or substance use problems. Participants represented staff from 6 CHCs in the Greater Toronto Area ( n = 190).
resultsThe OMS-HC was found to have acceptable internal reliability for the 15-item version of the scale (α = 0.766) and mixed reliability for its subscales (α = 0.792-0.673). Confirmatory factor analysis showed good absolute (root mean square error of approximation = 0.013) and relative fit (Tucker-Lewis index = 0.996) for the current data. The OMS-HC was also shown to correlate with a series of scales commonly used in stigma research.
conclusionsAfter testing for internal validity and comparing the OMS-HC to other commonly used scales for assessing stigma and attitudes concerning recovery, the scale was found to be appropriate for the CHC setting and may be advantageous over the use of multiple scales.
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