Open AccessRacial-Ethnic Differences in Mental Health Stigma and Changes Over the Course of a Statewide Campaign
Author(s) -
Eunice C. Wong,
Rebecca L. Collins,
Ryan McBain,
Joshua Breslau,
M. Audrey Burnam,
Matthew Cefalu,
Elizabeth Röth
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychiatric services
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.517
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1557-9700
pISSN - 1075-2730
DOI - 10.1176/appi.ps.201900630
Subject(s) - ethnic group , vietnamese , mental health , stigma (botany) , prejudice (legal term) , mental illness , medicine , health equity , social distance , gerontology , public health , psychology , demography , psychiatry , social psychology , disease , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , philosophy , linguistics , nursing , covid-19 , pathology , sociology , law
The authors examined whether shifts in mental health-related stigma differed across racial-ethnic groups over the course of a California statewide antistigma campaign and whether racial-ethnic disparities were present at the beginning of the campaign and 1 year later.