Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Efficacy of an Intervention to Reduce Stigma Beliefs and Attitudes among Primary Care and Mental Health Professionals: Two Cluster Randomised-Controlled Trials.
Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06655792 (Effectiveness of an Educational Program for Destigmatization Among Primary Health Care Providers), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effectiveness of an Educational Program for Destigmatization Among Primary Health Care Providers
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to Reduce Mental Health Stigma Among Health Care Professionals in Primary Health Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Evidence for the effectiveness of interventions to reduce mental health related stigma in the workplace: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2023Pooled it
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- Tackling healthcare providers bias: a systematic review of interventions with implications for inclusive clinical research.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- The Role of Contact and Emotional Intelligence in the Attitudes of General Population Towards Individuals Living With Mental Illness.Journal of community psychology · 2025Article
- People from ethnic minorities seeking help for long COVID: a qualitative study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2024Article
- Adapting the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Healthcare Providers to Measure Opioid-Related Stigma.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Beyond recovery: toward rights-based mental health care - A cluster randomized wait-list controlled trial of a recovery and rights training for mental health professionals with or without first person accounts.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Eliminating Explicit and Implicit Biases in Health Care: Evidence and Research Needs.Annual review of public health · 2022Review
- Protocol for the Optimizing Naloxone Dispensing in Pharmacies (ONDP) Online Continuing Education Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Beliefs and Attitudes of Health Care Professionals Toward Mental Health Services Users' Rights: A Cross-Sectional Study from the United Arab Emirates.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2022Article
- Life Disruptions, Symptoms Suggestive of Endometriosis, and Anticipated Stigma Among College Students in the United States.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Although it may seem paradoxical, primary care and mental health professionals develop prejudices and discriminatory attitudes towards people with mental health problems in a very similar way to the rest of the population. The main objective of this project was to design, implement and evaluate two awareness-raising interventions respectively tailored to reduce stigmatising beliefs and attitudes towards persons with a mental health diagnosis among primary care (PC) and mental health (MH) professionals. These interventions were developed by Obertament, the Catalan alliance against stigma and discrimination in mental health. Activists from this organisation with lived experience of mental health diagnosis carried out awareness-raising interventions in PC and MH health centres. The Targeted, Local, Credible, Continuous Contact (TLC3) methodology was adapted to the Catalan healthcare context. The efficacy of these interventions was evaluated using two prospective double-blind cluster-randomised-controlled trials. Stigmatizing beliefs and behaviours were measured with the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers in PC centres and with the Beliefs and Attitudes towards Mental Health Service users' rights in MH centres. Reductions in both PC and MH professionals' stigmatising beliefs and attitudes were found in the 1-month follow-up, although a 'rebound effect' at the 3-month follow up was detected. This emphasizes the importance of the continuity of the presence of anti-stigma activities and messages. Attrition rates were high, which can hamper the reliability of the results. Further follow-up studies should enquiry effects of long-term interventions aimed at reducing stigmatising beliefs and attitudes among primary care and mental health professionals using assessment systems that include the measurement of knowledge acquired and actual behavioural change.
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