SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2022
How Do Children of Parents With Mental Illness Experience Stigma? A Systematic Mixed Studies Review.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Next of kin involvement in mental health care services - a systematic participatory overview of evidence syntheses.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis: Coping Strategies of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults of Parents with a Mental Illness.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
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- Growing Up with Parental Mental Illness and Post-Traumatic Growth.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Establishing research and translation priorities and care pathways for families where a parent lives with mental ill health.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Associations between Parental Depression and Anxiety and Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: Investigating Expressed Emotion as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- (Not) "just your nature". Diagnostic journeys of adults with neurofibromatosis type 1 in Poland.Frontiers in genetics · 2025Article
- Deconstructing stigmatising narratives: a qualitative analysis of contrast devices in interviews with mothers with a mental illness.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Children of parents with a mental illness - stigma questionnaire: validation and revision.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Attitudes and perceptions of teachers toward mental health literacy: A case of Odzi High School, Mutare District, Zimbabwe.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Children of Parents With a Mental Illness-Stigma Questionnaire: Development and Piloting.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Stigma can have devastating health and wellbeing impacts, not just on people with mental health problems, but on people associated with the stigmatized person. This is called stigma-by-association. Children whose parents have mental health problems are a particularly vulnerable group, and stigma acts as a mechanism, contributing to the transgenerational transmission of mental disorders. The current study is a systematic mixed studies review, synthesizing knowledge about how this group of children experience stigma-by-association. Overall, 32 studies were included, after a systematic search including quantitative, qualitatative, and mixed methods studies. The methodological quality was assessed and qualitative content analysis undertaken. We grouped children's stigma experiences into four dimensions, i.e., experienced stigma, anticipated stigma, internalized stigma, and structural discrimination. Results show that stigma is an important factor in those children's lives, and needs further investigation in qualitative and quantitative research. The current study emphasizes the importance of anti-stigma interventions and campaigns.
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