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Attitudes towards anorexia nervosa: Volitional stigma differences in a sample of pre-clinical medicine and psychology students [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a highly stigmatised condition, with treatment often involving multidisciplinary care. As such, understanding and comparing the attitudes of emerging mental health and medical professionals towards AN, within the ...
Bannatyne, Amy Jean, Stapleton, Peta Berenice   +1 more
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Evidence-Based Programs & Measures Of Mental Health Literacy among Adolescents: A Narrative Research Review [PDF]

, 2020
Evidence-Based Programs & Measures Of Mental Health Literacy among Adolescents: A Narrative Research Review Roxana Naemi, Dept. of Psychology, Sabrina Hawa, & Chloe Walker, Dept. of Psychology Graduate Student, with Dr. Chelsea D. Williams, Dept.
Hawa, Sabrina, Naemi, Roxana, Walker, Chloe   +2 more
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Empathy and Mental Health Literacy

HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2017
Background: There is growing literature on mental health literacy (MHL), but few studies have conducted research on anything more than demographic predictors of MHL. We believe that those who are more empathic would be more interested in and more knowledgeable about mental illnesses. Objective:
Adrian Furnham, Paula Sjokvist
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Male professional footballers’ experiences of mental health difficulties and help-seeking [PDF]

, 2017
Objectives: Male professional footballers (soccer) represent an at-risk population of developing mental health difficulties and not accessing professional support. One in four current footballers report mental health difficulties.
Harrison, Lesley K, Kucharska, Jo, Wood, Susan   +2 more
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Workplace mental health: developing an integrated intervention approach [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Mental health problems are prevalent and costly in working populations. Workplace interventions to address common mental health problems have evolved relatively independently along three main threads or disciplinary traditions: medicine ...
Keegal, Tessa, LaMontagne, Anthony D., Martin, Angela, Milner, Allison J., Noblet, Andrew J., Page, Kathryn M., Reavley, Nicola J., Smith, Peter M.   +7 more
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The Internet and mental health literacy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2000
Objective: This paper describes the informational and treatment opportunities offered by the Worldwide Web (WWW) and comments on the advantages, disadvantages and potential dangers of its role in mental health and mental health research. Method: Two perspectives are taken: (i) the impact of the Web from the point of view of the clinician (the ...
Christensen, Helen, Griffiths, Kathleen
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Comparing mental health literacy and physical health literacy: an exploratory study [PDF]

Journal of Mental Health, 2017
This study compared mental health and physical health literacy using five health problems from each area.The aim was to determine whether the same group had better physical than mental health literacy Method: A sample of 263 participants completed an online questionnaire requiring them to name a problem/illness described in 10 vignettes and suggest ...
Wickstead, R, Furnham, A
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Mental health literacy: a cross-cultural approach to knowledge and beliefs about depression, schizophrenia and generalized anxiety disorder [PDF]

, 2015
Many families worldwide have at least one member with a behavioral or mental disorder, and yet the majority of the public fails to correctly recognize symptoms of mental illness. Previous research has found that Mental Health Literacy (MHL)—the knowledge
Abdullah, Adewuya, Angermeyer, Angermeyer, Angermeyer, Anglin, Atkinson, Ayalon, Barke, Beck, Bhugra, Chadda, Chen, Cooper-Patrick, Corrigan, Dahlberg, Daly, Dempster, Diamantopoulos, Dietrich, Field, Freeman, French, Gere, Hofstede, Hofstede, Imada, Ipeiriotis, Jenkins, Jorm, Jorm, Jorm, Jorm, Jorm, Jorm, Jorm, Kessler, Khandelwal, Kline, Kuo, Kurihara, Lauber, Leitschuh, Lykes, Markus, Mishra, Narikiyo, Ohaeri, Peluso, Penny, Razali, Ross, Russell, Sanchez, Schafer, Schnittker, Shankar, Sheikh, Shokoohi-Yekta, Shrout, Shulruf, Singh, Sivadas, Solomon, Speller, Suhail, Tartakovsky, Tata, ten Have, Thara, Van Hook, Vandenberg, Vijayalakshmi, Weiss, Whaley, Williams, World Health Organisation, World Health Organisation, World Health Organisation, World Health Organization World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca), Wright, Yeh   +81 more
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Mental health literacy [PDF]

British Journal of Psychiatry, 2000
BackgroundAlthough the benefits of public knowledge of physical diseases are widely accepted, knowledge about mental disorders (mental health literacy) has been comparatively neglected.AimsTo introduce the concept of mental health literacy to a wider audience, to bring together diverse research relevant to the topic and to identify gaps in the area ...
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Mental Health Literacy in Young Adults: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Mental Health Literacy Questionnaire [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018
Mental health literacy (MHL) is considered a prerequisite for early recognition and intervention in mental disorders, and for this reason, it has become a focus of research over the past few decades. Assessing this construct is relevant for identifying knowledge gaps and erroneous beliefs concerning mental health issues, to inform the development of ...
Dias, Pedro, Campos, Luísa, Almeida, Helena, Palha, Filipa   +3 more
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