Portraying mental illness and drug addiction as treatable health conditions: Effects of a randomized experiment on stigma and discrimination

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue , 2015, Pages 73-85

  McGinty, Emma E ^a   Goldman, Howard H ^b   Pescosolido, Bernice ^c   Barry, Colleen L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Discrimination; Mental illness; Stigma; Substance use

Indexed keywords

DRUG USER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPIATE ADDICTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920264253     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.12.010     Document Type: Article

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