Sentence examples for reducing stigmatising from inspiring English sources

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.

For behavioural outcomes SMDs were calculated in one intervention which showed a small (SMD = 0.22) effect in reducing stigmatising behaviour.

First-hand contact with persons with mental illness has been shown to be a potent factor in reducing stigmatising attitudes [ 30].

Online and electronic interventions have been shown to be effective in reducing stigmatising attitudes towards depression [ 10], knowledge about evidence based treatment [ 10], help-seeking from family and friends [ 11], and symptoms of depression and anxiety [ 12].

Interventions that aim to improve mental health literacy in the social network of individuals with eating disorders provide a promising avenue for increased help-seeking, because of the important role family and friends can play in recognising an eating disorder, reducing stigmatising attitudes, overcoming illness related barriers and facilitating engagement with treatment [ 21, 23, 24].

Interestingly, in a review performed by Jorm and Oh [ 74], interventions aimed at reducing stigmatising attitudes of similar length to the current training, were found to have similar results whereby no significant changes in the total score were found over time.

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].

We investigate whether this booklet increases knowledge about depression and reduces stigmatised attitudes.