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Attitudes Toward Community Mental Health Care: The Contact Paradox Revisited

Erschienen in: Community Mental Health Journal | Ausgabe 3/2013

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Contact with people with mental illness is considered to be a promising strategy to change stigmatizing attitudes. This study examines the underlying mechanisms of the association between contact and attitudes toward community mental health care. Data are derived from the 2009 survey “Stigma in a Global Context—Belgian Mental Health Study”, using the Community Mental Health Ideology-scale. Results show that people who received mental health treatment themselves or have a family member who has been treated for mental health problems report more tolerant attitudes toward community mental health care than people with public contact with people with mental illness. Besides, the perception of the effectiveness of the treatment seems to matter too. Furthermore, emotions arising from public contact are associated with attitudes toward community mental health care. The degree of intimacy and the characteristics of the contact relationship clarify the association between contact and attitudes toward community mental health care.

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Titel: Attitudes Toward Community Mental Health Care: The Contact Paradox Revisited
Publikationsdatum: 01.06.2013
Erschienen in: Community Mental Health Journal / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-012-9564-4

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