ArticleAmerican journal of men's health
Men's Experiences of Mental Illness Stigma Across the Lifespan: A Scoping Review.
Article in American journal of men's health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
43 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.
- Workplace Interventions Targeting Mental Health Literacy, Stigma, Help-Seeking, and Help-Offering in Male-Dominated Industries: A Systematic Review.American journal of men's healthPooled it
- Mental Health Stigma Reduction Interventions Among Men: A Systematic Review.American journal of men's healthPooled it
- A Community-Led Social and Emotional Well-being Trial Intervention With First Nations Male Parents in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities.American journal of men's healthTrial
- Through deaf eyes: factors influencing suicidal behavior among deaf adults.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2026Article
- Disentangling Objective and Subjective Reasons for Foregoing Help for a Mental Health Issue.Sociological focus · 2026Article
- Trends in psychological distress among US adults before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional analysis, 2017-2024.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Digital Mental Health Promotion Services for Youth: A Qualitative Study of Help-Seeking Through Mindhelper.dk.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- Understanding vulnerabilities and resilience in binge eating disorder among female population and transgender individuals across the lifespan: a narrative review.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Review
- Article
- Values, belief systems and mental health stigma - a scoping review and synthesis of quantitative evidence.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- "We Don't Stay Where We Feel Weak": Experiences of Men Discontinuing Mental Health Services in Türkiye.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2026Article
- Sex Differences and Psychological Assessments in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2026Article
- Psychosocial and health-related determinants of self-reported unmet healthcare needs in Türkiye: evidence from a nation-wide survey.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Physical exercise and loneliness in higher education: a national study of Norwegian students.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Silent Scars: Distinguishing the Psychiatric Morbidities Following Burn Injuries Between Males and Females.Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association · 2026Article
- Help-seeking for mental health: an exploratory cross-national study of Italian and South Korean university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Recruitment strategies and participant motivations in a digital randomized controlled trial for the prevention of anxiety disorders: the prevANS study.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Perceptions of mental health stigma toward diagnostic labels among health professionals and mental health users: a Delphi study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Association between psychological disorders and migraine in young U.S. adults with gender-specific analysis and marital status considerations.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Health-related quality of life among multiethnic public polyclinic users in Singapore and associated factors: a cross-sectional study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The stigma of men's mental illness has been described as having wide-reaching and profound consequences beyond the condition[s] itself. Stigma negatively impacts men's mental health help-seeking and the use of services amid impeding disclosures, diminishing social connection and amplifying economic hardship. Although men often face barriers to discussing their struggles with, and help-seeking for mental illness challenges, research focused on men's lived experiences of mental illness stigma is, at best, emergent. This scoping review explores men's mental illness related stigmas synthesizing and discussing the findings drawn from 21 published qualitative articles over the last 10 years. Four thematic findings were derived: (a) the weight of societal stigma, (b) stigma in male-dominated environments, (c) inequity driven stigmas, and (d) de-stigmatizing strategies. Despite evidence that stigma is a common experience for men experiencing diverse mental illness challenges, the field remains underdeveloped. Based on the scoping review findings, research gaps and opportunities for advancing the field are discussed.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.