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Regional differences in mental health stigma-Analysis of nationally representative data from the Health Survey for England, 2014.
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- Investigating changes in mental illness stigma and discrimination after the Time to Change programme in England.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Stigma, mental illness & ethnicity: Time to centre racism and structural stigma.Sociology of health & illness · 2023Review
- Is the self-reporting of mental health problems sensitive to public stigma towards mental illness? A comparison of time trends across English regions (2009-19).Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- At home or in hospital: Home treatment and mental health stigma.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2022Article
- Regional Differences in Serious Psychological Distress and Overall Physical and Mental Health.Community mental health journal · 2022Article
- 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
- [Social milieu: A relevant concept for a better understanding of stigma and help-seeking?]Der Nervenarzt · 2020Review
- Moderation by socioeconomic status of the relationship between familiarity with mental illness and stigma outcomes.SSM - population health · 2020Article
- The association between neighbourhood characteristics and physical victimisation in men and women with mental disorders.BJPsych open · 2020Article
- Mental illness stigma after a decade of Time to Change England: inequalities as targets for further improvement.European journal of public health · 2020Article
- A Call to Action. A Critical Review of Mental Health Related Anti-stigma Campaigns.Frontiers in public health · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundMental health stigma persists despite coordinated and widely-evaluated interventions. Socioeconomic, structural, and regional context may be important in shaping attitudes to mental illness, and response to stigma interventions. Regional differences in attitudes towards mental illness could be relevant for intervention, but have not been systematically explored. We evaluated regional variation in mental health stigma using nationally representative data from England, the Health Survey for England (HSE), from 2014.
methodsA previously derived scale for mental health-related attitudes with 2 factors (i. tolerance and support, ii. prejudice and exclusion), and overall attitudes, were outcomes. Weighted linear regressions estimated contribution of individual characteristics and region of residence to inter-individual variability in mental health-related attitudes.
resultsLondon and southern regions tended to have more negative mental health-related attitudes. These differences were not fully or consistently explained by individual sociodemographic characteristics, or personal familiarity with mental illness.
conclusionsStigma policies could require refinements based on geographic setting. Regions may be in particular need of stigma interventions, or be more resistant to them. Regional differences might be related to media coverage of mental illness, funding differences, service availability, or accessibility of educational opportunities. Greater geographic detail is necessary to examine reasons for regional variation in stigmatizing attitudes towards people with mental illness, for example through multilevel analysis.
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