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Jessica Bankston

Troy University

In the cross-sectional study entitled, “How mental health literacy and experience of mental illness relates to stigmatizing attitudes and social distance towards people with depression or psychosis” by Svensson & Hansson (2015), high mental health literacy rates, personal or family mental health experience correlated with low stigma and social distance in people with depression. In psychotic people, negative attitude and social distance significantly affected parameters. The study concluded that positive attitude and less social distance were significantly influenced by mental health experience and literacy in people with depression compared to psychotic. Therefore, anti-stigma interventions should consider the existing differences between depression and psychosis.

This article is an evidence-based representative study and provides relevant and valid information that can be generalized to a population with similar characteristics. The article shows that psychotic and depressed people face high levels of stigmatization from people who do not have mental health experience and are not informed. It is therefore important for society to conduct extensive awareness and capacity building about mental health.

Reference

Svensson, B., Hansson, L., & Lexén, A. (2018). Outcomes of clients in need of intensive team care in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment in Sweden. Nordic journal of psychiatry, 72(3), 226-231.