TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental Health Literacy and Stigma Among Salvadorian Youth: Anxiety, Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Related Disorders
AU - Trompeter, Nora
AU - Johnco, Carly
AU - Zepeda-Burgos, Raquel M.
AU - Schneider, Sophie C
AU - Cepeda, Sandra L.
AU - La Buissonniere-Ariza, Valerie
AU - Guttfreund, Daniel
AU - Storch, Eric A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Nora Trompeter, Sandra Cepeda and Daniel Guttfreund report no conflicts of interest. Carly Johnco receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Rotary Health and Macquarie University. Valérie La Buissonnière-Ariza receives a postdoctoral research scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Sophie Schneider receives funding from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Red Cross, and the Misophonia Research Fund. Eric Storch receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, Red Cross, ReBuild Texas, IOCDF, Greater Houston Community Foundation, and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. He is a consultant for Levo Therapeutics. He receives book royalties from Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Lawrence Erlbaum, Kingsley, and Oxford University Press. He receives honorarium and travel fee for trainings from the IOCDF.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - This study examined (1) adolescent mental health literacy (MHL) and stigma for depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), and (2) demographic moderators. Participants were 383 high school students (50.9% boys) aged 11–18 years (M = 14.12, SD = 1.91) in El Salvador. Participants read vignettes of adolescents with mental health problems and reported on their beliefs about (1) what was wrong with the young person, (2) expected recovery time, (3) help-seeking beliefs and recommendations, and (4) stigma and preferred social distance associated with each condition. Results suggested that recognition of mental health conditions, especially anxiety disorders and OCRDs, was limited, although one third could recognize depression in a peer. Help-seeking attitudes were favorable. Adolescents were only somewhat willing to be affiliated with someone experiencing a mental health problem. Girls showed better MHL and lower stigma than boys. Stigma was lower among those with exposure to mental health problems.
AB - This study examined (1) adolescent mental health literacy (MHL) and stigma for depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), and (2) demographic moderators. Participants were 383 high school students (50.9% boys) aged 11–18 years (M = 14.12, SD = 1.91) in El Salvador. Participants read vignettes of adolescents with mental health problems and reported on their beliefs about (1) what was wrong with the young person, (2) expected recovery time, (3) help-seeking beliefs and recommendations, and (4) stigma and preferred social distance associated with each condition. Results suggested that recognition of mental health conditions, especially anxiety disorders and OCRDs, was limited, although one third could recognize depression in a peer. Help-seeking attitudes were favorable. Adolescents were only somewhat willing to be affiliated with someone experiencing a mental health problem. Girls showed better MHL and lower stigma than boys. Stigma was lower among those with exposure to mental health problems.
KW - Mental health literacy
KW - Stigma
KW - Child
KW - Adolescent
KW - El Salvador
KW - Anxiety
KW - Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
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U2 - 10.1007/s10578-020-01096-0
DO - 10.1007/s10578-020-01096-0
M3 - Article
SN - 0009-398X
VL - 53
SP - 48
EP - 60
JO - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
JF - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
IS - 1
ER -
