PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEFS ABOUT MENTAL DISORDERS

By A. F. Jorme. 2000

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Citations in the corpus

• STIGMA: BARRIER TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE AMONG ETHNIC MINORITIES (2005, background): “It emits poorly justified and often false information about people that helps to create discriminatory acts against them (Corrigan, Green, Lundin, Kubiak, & Penn, 2001; Corrigan et al., 2004b; Dinges & Duong-Tran, 1993; Jones, 1998; Jorm, 2000).”
• Mental Health Education: An Evaluation of a Classroom Based Strategy to Modify Help Seeking for Mental Health Problems (2006, background): “National surveys conducted at the beginning, middle, and end of the campaign indicated significant changes in the percentage of the public who would be willing to seek help for depression (Jorm, 2000).”
• A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2011, unknown): “The core content of the mental health literacy is mental health knowledge.([49]) Health education is an effective means to improve adolescent mental health knowledge([50]); however, we have not seen any studies on how to evaluate the effectiveness of health education, especially about mental health ”
• The Impact of Mental Health Literacy on Help-Seeking Intentions: Results of a Pilot Study with First Year Psychology Students (2011, background): “It is conceptualised as a continuum ranging from lay beliefs to professional knowledge (Jorm, 2000).”
• Dimensions of Folk Psychiatry (2005, background): “This view underpins studies of “mental health literacy” (Jorm, 2000): The public’s literacy is high when its beliefs about the forms, causes, and treatments of mental disorder correspond to professional knowledge.”
• Public beliefs about and attitudes towards people with mental illness: a review of population studies (2006, background): “Jorm AF, Medway J, Christensen H, Korten AE, Jacomb PA, Rodgers B. Attitudes towards people with depression: effects on the public’s help-seeking and outcome when experiencing common psychiatric symptoms.”
• Treatment gap in mental health care. (2004, background): “In addition a lack of knowledge about mental disorders and stigma remain major barriers to care (9, 10).”