“I’m Fine” – A Short Film on Mental Illness Stigma (original) (raw)
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Psychiatric Bulletin, 2008
Aims and MethodTo explore the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial of the effects of two anti-stigma films on medical students' attitudes to serious mental illness and psychiatry. Attitudes to serious mental illness, perceived dangerousness, social distance and psychiatry, were measured before and after watching the films and at 8 weeks.ResultsIntervention films significantly improved general attitudes to serious mental illness and social distance, with a trend towards reducing perceived dangerousness. These effects appeared to attenuate during the students' clinical placements, suggesting a possible interaction with their clinical experiences.Clinical ImplicationsOur results suggest both that it may be possible to conduct a substantive trial of the effects of the intervention films on a larger cohort of medical students and that the films may be effective in reducing stigmatising attitudes in medical students.
The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2004
Parse personalistic recreational temporal priority of conduct disorder with a lateralisation index of the stressor of awakening and graded activity in Languedoc-Roussillon, measure survival statistics with Icelandic antidepressants, then study compulsory admissions, violence exposure and overt discrimination. This is not a particularly memorable or instructive sentence but it contains what I regard as some of the essential words from all 14 papers in this month's issue. I am sure readers could do considerably better. Enclosed between Leon Eisenberg's smashing ...
Using participatory video to challenge the stigma of mental illness (2012)
The diagnosis of mental ill health continues to attract substantial stigma in western society, with evidence suggesting public attitudes to be increasingly negative. Recent reviews have highlighted the extensive research on the nature of this stigma but with limited work on the development of strategies to challenge the stigma. The aim of this case study was to explore the potential of researchers and mental health service users (MHSUs) working collaboratively to identify the main problems the service users experience in their everyday lives and to produce a video challenging the negative image of mental ill health. Discussions were held with volunteers involved in a mental health media action group; all volunteers had been or were currently MHSU. These discussions identified a variety of problems including difficulties in everyday social interaction and negative portrayal of mental ill health in the media. A short video was developed with volunteers summarizing the issues they had raised: this was subsequently shown to a wider audience. The MHSUs reported considerable personal benefits of participation in the project. The paper discusses these findings and the process of producing the video.
A multicentric study on stigma towards people with mental illness in health sciences students
BMC Medical Education, 2021
Background There is evidence of negative attitudes among health professionals towards people with mental illness but there is also a knowledge gap on what training must be given to these health professionals during their education. The purpose of this study is to compare the attitudes of students of health sciences: nursing, medical, occupational therapy, and psychology. Methods A comparative and cross-sectional study in which 927 final-year students from health sciences university programmes were evaluated using the Mental Illness: Clinicians’ Attitudes (both MICA-2 and MICA-4) scale. The sample was taken in six universities from Chile and Spain. Results We found consistent results indicating that stigma varies across university programmes. Medical and nursing students showed more negative attitudes than psychology and occupational therapy students in several stigma-related themes: recovery, dangerousness, uncomfortability, disclosure, and discriminatory behaviour. Conclusions Our ...
Stigma-stop a serious game against the stigma in mental disorders
—In this work a serious games is presented to sensitize young people against stigma in mental health. This is a video game developed by a multidisciplinary team (computer scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists and educators) where the characters have different mental disorders. The video game provides different information about what is mental illness, while the player can interact with the characters in different ways, indicating which of them are the most appropriate. It also includes various " short-games " to eradicate stigma. It is a serious games, which will be available free, for teenagers or college students and young that can be used both independently and as part of other existing programs in schools against stigma to mental disorders.
University students’ perspectives on mental illness stigma
Mental Health & Prevention, 2019
Mental health issues are increasingly prevalent among North American post-secondary students and often impede academic progress. However, students appear reluctant to seek help and access mental health services due to stigma associated with mental health issues. Our study explored university students' perspectives on and experiences of mental illness stigma on campus with the ultimate aim of working towards building more inclusive communities. Drawing on a participatory action research approach, we recruited 24 Canadian university students and conducted 13 semi-structured interviews, three focus groups, and three Photovoice sessions. Thematic analysis of the transcribed narratives and discussions derived from the data-collection process generated three themes. First, students identified academic pressure, the concealed nature of mental illness, and mistreatment of people with mental illness as sources of stigma. Second, stigma threatened three aspects of student life: being, doing, and belonging. Third, enhancing awareness of students' mental health issues and improving mental health service delivery were indicated as critical to addressing stigma. The university's abilityfocused culture appeared to contribute to reinforcing stigma and to students being threatened with losing or damaging their academic competence status. Universities should initiate dialogue with students and faculty to communicate the relationship between students' mental health and academic success.
2018
Stigma towards mental ill people is gaining importance within the field of mental health. The following paper tries to investigate the stigma phenomenon of undergraduates in Medicine, Psychology and Nursing. Since those are the key figures of the future in the treatment of the patients, their possible stigmatizing behaviors can influence negatively the therapeutic course of the patients themselves. For this purpose, a review of the major works concerned with the object of the study has been conducted, in order to survey feasible interventions to reduce stigma and negative attitudes from the students.
2018
Background: Medical student attitudes to mental illness are significantly influenced by their undergraduate educational experience. Medical education therefore has a key role to play in challenging the stigma associated with mental illness. We developed a short educational film aimed at challenging stigmatising attitudes to mental illness and explored its effects on undergraduate medical student attitudes. We hypothesised that levels of stigmatising attitudes in medical students would reduce after students viewed the educational film. Method: We used a validated scale (Mental Illness: Clinician Attitudes, MICA) to examine undergraduate medical student attitudes to mental illness at two time points - prior to (T1) and following (T2) viewing the short film. The film focused on patient experiences and was designed to highlight personal experiences of mental illness. Results: 92 students completed the MICA before the film and 73 students at both time points. Having a personal history of...