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We are seeing a concerted effort to reduce stigmatising behaviour towards people with mental health difficulties.
In posing the idea that professionalisation may reduce stigmatising attitudes, two refinements need to be introduced.
This suggests that communicating messages about the biology of alcohol addiction as opposed to a 'brain disease' label specifically may reduce stigmatising attitudes to those who suffer from it.
The strongest evidence-based intervention known to reduce stigmatising attitudes (but not yet shown to change discriminatory behaviour) is direct social contact with a person who has mental illness [ 21, 26, 42, 61, 62].
There have been suggestions that close interaction with patients will reduce stigmatising or negative attitudes [ 47], however more recent research indicate that those with the closest contact may be the most discriminating of all [ 33].
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Conclusions There is modest evidence for the effectiveness of anti-stigma interventions beyond 4 weeks follow-up in terms of increasing knowledge and reducing stigmatising attitudes.
We investigate whether this booklet increases knowledge about depression and reduces stigmatised attitudes.
For behavioural outcomes SMDs were calculated in one intervention which showed a small (SMD = 0.22) effect in reducing stigmatising behaviour.
As the factors contributing to weight stigma become clearer, effective ways to target such factors to reduce weight stigmatising behaviour should be investigated and implemented, both in clinical settings and in medical and midwifery university training programs (see [ 22] for an example of an anti-weight bias intervention developed for health professionals in training).
But that process has been in stalemate for six years.In this section Stopping the wrong sort of chain reaction Blown away Thin gruel and hungry stomachs Correction: Humanitarian intervention Reprints Related items Cluster munitions: A change of heart, or of tactic?Jun 21st 2007Nonetheless, campaigners think the treaty will reduce and stigmatise the use of cluster munitions.
In conclusion, these findings suggest that tackling the perception of negative descriptive norms may be an effective strategy for reducing explicit stigmatising responses among adolescents.
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