1,080
Views
4
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Article

Schizophrenia literacy: the effects of an educational intervention on populations with and without prior health education

, , &
Pages 229-237 | Received 15 Oct 2017, Accepted 21 Jun 2018, Published online: 16 Nov 2018

References

  • Angermeyer, M. C., Holzinger, A., & Matschinger, H. (2009). Mental health literacy and attitude towards people with mental illness: A trend analysis based on population surveys in the eastern part of Germany. European Psychiatry, 24, 225–232. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2008.06.010
  • Angermeyer, M. C., & Matschinger, H. (2005). Causal beliefs and attitudes to people with schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 186, 331–334. doi:10.1192/bjp.186.4.331
  • Corrigan, P. (2004). How stigma interferes with mental health care. American Psychologist, 59, 614–625. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.59.7.614
  • Corrigan, P. W., & Watson, A. C. (2004). At issue: Stop the stigma: Call mental illness a brain disease. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 30, 477–479. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.schbul.a007095
  • Faul, F., Erdfelder, E., Lang, A. G., & Buchner, A. (2007). G*power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 175–191. doi:10.3758/BF03193146
  • Furnham, A., Cook, R., Martin, N., & Batey, M. (2011). Mental health literacy among university students. Journal of Public Mental Health, 10, 198–210. doi:10.1108/17465721111188223
  • Gibbons, R. J., Thorsteinsson, E. B., & Loi, N. M. (2015). Beliefs and attitudes towards mental illness: An examination of the sex differences in mental health literacy in a community sample. PeerJ, 3, e1004. doi:10.7717/peerj.1004
  • Goodwin, J., Savage, E., & Horgan, A. (2016). Adolescents' and young adults' beliefs about mental health services and care: A systematic review. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 30, 636–644. doi:10.1016/j.apnu.2016.04.004
  • Griffiths, K. M., Nakane, Y., Christensen, H., Yoshioka, K., Jorm, A. F., & Nakane, H. (2006). Stigma in response to mental disorders: A comparison of Australia and Japan. BMC Psychiatry, 6(1). doi:10.1186/1471-244X/6/21
  • Johannessen, J. O., Larsen, T. K., Joa, I., Melle, I., Friis, S., Opjordsmoen, S., … Mcglashan, T. H. (2005). Pathways to care for first-episode psychosis in an early detection healthcare sector - Part of the Scandinavian TIPS study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 187(S48), s24–s28. doi:10.1192/bjp.187.48.s24
  • Jorm, A. F. (2012). Mental health literacy: Empowering the community to take action for better mental health. American Psychologist, 67, 231–243. doi:10.1037/a0025957
  • Jorm, A. F., Christensen, H., & Griffiths, K. M. (2006). The public's ability to recognize mental disorders and their beliefs about treatment: Changes in Australia over 8 years. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 40, 36–41. doi:10.1080/j.1440-1614.2006.01738.x
  • Jorm, A. F., Korten, A., Jacomb, P., Christensen, H., Rodgers, B., & Pollitt, P. (1997). ‘Mental health literacy. A survey of the public’s ability to recognise mental disorders and their beliefs about the effectiveness of treatment. The Medical Journal of Australia, 166, 182–186.
  • Jung, H., von Sternberg, K., & Davis, K. (2016). Expanding a measure of mental health literacy: Development and validation of a multicomponent mental health literacy measure. Psychiatry Research, 243, 278–286. doi:10.1016/j.psycres.2016.06.034
  • Killackey, E., & Yung, A. R. (2007). Effectiveness of early intervention in psychosis. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 20, 121–125. doi:10.1097/YCO.0b013e328017f67d
  • Lawlor, E., Breslin, J. G., Renwick, L., Foley, S., Mulkerrin, U., Kinsella, A., … O'Callaghan, E. (2008). Mental health literacy among internet users. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2, 247–255. doi:10.1111/j.1751-7893.2008.00085.x
  • McCann, T. V., Lu, S., & Berryman, C. (2009). Mental health literacy of Australian bachelor of nursing students: A longitudinal study. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 16, 61–67. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2850.2008.01330.x
  • Morgan, A. J., Reavley, N. J., & Jorm, A. F. (2014). Beliefs about mental disorder treatment and prognosis: Comparison of health professionals with the Australian public. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48, 442–451. doi:10.1177/0004867413512686
  • O’Keeffe, D., Turner, N., Foley, S., Lawlor, E., Kinsella, A., O'Callaghan, E., & Clarke, M. (2016). The relationship between mental health literacy regarding schizophrenia and psychiatric stigma in the Republic of Ireland. Journal of Mental Health, 25, 100–108. doi:10.3109/09638237.2015.1057327
  • Pescosolido, B. A., & Boyer, C. A. (2010). Understanding the context and dynamic social processes of mental health treatment. In T. L. Scheid & T. N. Brown (Eds.), A handbook for the study of mental health: Social contexts, theories and systems (2nd ed., pp. 420–438). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pinfold, V., Toulmin, H., Thornicroft, G., Huxley, P., Farmer, P., & Graham, T. (2003). Reducing psychiatric stigma and discrimination: Evaluation of educational interventions in UK secondary schools. British Journal of Psychiatry, 182, 342–346. doi:10.1192/bjp.182.4.342
  • Qualtrics. (2016). Qualtrics Research Suite [Computer software]. Provo, UT. Retrieved from http://www.qualtrics.com
  • Read, J., Haslam, N., Sayce, L., & Davies, E. (2006). Prejudice and schizophrenia: A review of the ‘mental illness is an illness like any other’approach. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 114, 303–318. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.2006.00824.x
  • Reavley, N. J., & Jorm, A. F. (2011b). Recognition of mental disorders and beliefs about treatment and outcome: Findings from an Australian national survey of mental health literacy and stigma. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 45, 947–956. doi:10.3109/00048674.2011.621060
  • Reavley, N. J., & Jorm, A. F. (2011a). National Survey of Mental Health Literacy and Stigma. Canberra Retrieved from: http://pmhg.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/636496/National_Mental_Health_Literacy_Survey_Monograph.pdf
  • Reavley, N. J., & Jorm, A. F. (2014). The Australian public's beliefs about the causes of schizophrenia: Associated factors and change over 16 years. Psychiatry Research, 220(1–2), 609–614. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2014.07.016
  • Reavley, N. J., Morgan, A. J., & Jorm, A. F. (2014). Development of scales to assess mental health literacy relating to recognition of and interventions for depression, anxiety disorders and schizophrenia/psychosis. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48, 61–69. doi:10.1177/0004867413491157
  • Rüsch, N., Evans-Lacko, S. E., Henderson, C., Flach, C., & Thornicroft, G. (2011). Knowledge and attitudes as predictors of intentions to seek help for and disclose a mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 62, 675–678. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.62.6.675
  • Schulze, B., Richter, ‐Werling, M., Matschinger, H., & Angermeyer, M. (2003). Crazy? So what! Effects of a school project on students' attitudes towards people with schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 107, 142–150. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.02444.x
  • Scior, K., & Furnham, A. (2016). Causal beliefs about intellectual disability and schizophrenia and their relationship with awareness of the condition and social distance. Psychiatry Research, 243, 100–108. doi:10.1016/j.psycres.2016.06.019
  • Thonon, B., Pletinx, A., Grandjean, A., Billieux, J., & Larøi, F. (2016). The effects of a documentary film about schizophrenia on cognitive, affective and behavioural aspects of stigmatisation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 50, 196–200. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.08.001
  • Thorsteinsson, E. B., Loi, N. M., & Moulynox, A. L. (2014). Mental health literacy of depression and postnatal depression: A community sample. Open Journal of Depression, 03, 101–111. doi:10.4236/ojd.2014.33014
  • Thorsteinsson, E. B., Williams, E., Bhullar, N., & Loi, N. M. (2017). The effects of a schizophrenia literacy educational intervention on populations with and without prior health education. [Data file]. Available from https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5405683.v2
  • Wei, Y., McGrath, P. J., Hayden, J., & Kutcher, S. (2015). Mental health literacy measures evaluating knowledge, attitudes and help-seeking: A scoping review. BMC Psychiatry, 15, 1–20. doi:10.1186/s12888-015-0681-9
  • Wickstead, R., & Furnham, A. (2017). Comparing mental health literacy and physical health literacy: An exploratory study. Journal of Mental Health, 26, 449–456. doi:10.1080/09638237.2017.1294743
  • Wood, A. L., & Wahl, O. F. (2006). Evaluating the effectiveness of a consumer-provided mental health recovery education presentation. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 30, 46–52. doi:10.2975/30.2006.46.53
  • Wright, A., Jorm, A. F., Harris, M. G., & McGorry, P. D. (2007). What’s in a name? Is accurate recognition and labelling of mental disorders by young people associated with better help-seeking and treatment preferences?. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 42, 244–250. doi:10.1007/s00127-006-0156-x
  • Wright, A., McGorry, P. D., Harris, M. G., Jorm, A. F., & Pennell, K. (2006). Development and evaluation of a youth mental health community awareness campaign–The compass strategy. BMC Public Health, 6, 1. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-215
  • Zochil, M. L., & Thorsteinsson, E. B. (2018). Exploring poor sleep, mental health, and help-seeking intention in University students. Australian Journal of Psychology, 70, 41–47. doi:10.1111/ajpy.12160

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.