Erschienen in:
01.02.2016 | Short Communication
Self-labelling and stigma as predictors of attitudes towards help-seeking among people at risk of psychosis: 1-year follow-up
verfasst von:
Ziyan Xu, Mario Müller, Karsten Heekeren, Anastasia Theodoridou, Diane Dvorsky, Sibylle Metzler, Alison Brabban, Patrick W. Corrigan, Susanne Walitza, Wulf Rössler, Nicolas Rüsch
Erschienen in:
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
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Ausgabe 1/2016
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Abstract
Mental health service use is helpful but rare among young people at risk of psychosis. The label and stigma associated with mental illness may affect attitudes towards help-seeking. We examined 67 individuals at risk of psychosis over the course of 1 year. An increase of self-labelling as “mentally ill” predicted more positive attitudes towards psychiatric medication, while increased perceived stigma and the cognitive appraisal of stigma as a stressor predicted poorer attitudes towards psychotherapy after 1 year. Early intervention could improve non-stigmatizing awareness of at-risk mental state and reduce the public stigma associated with at-risk status to facilitate help-seeking.