What is it about?
Positive attitudes of people toward persons with mental illness especially those of neighbors, became important to facilitating their social reintegration and reducing stigma. In order to identify predictors of positive attitudes toward persons with mental illness and Therapeutic Residential Services we interviewed a stratified random sample of neighbors from a medium-sized city in Brazil.
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Why is it important?
This study is pioneering, as no quantitative study addressing the neighbors’ attitudes of Therapeutic Residential Services has been previously conducted in Brazil, except for the Brazilian study validating the scale “Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill”.
Perspectives
Results indicate a need to develop strategies to educate the population about mental illness and community mental health services and to promote contact with them to reduce stigma, increase positive attitudes and improve reintegration of people with mental illness into the community. We have to highlight the progress in mental health but recognizing that we need to move forward mainly in relation to reducing stigma.
Joanna Tostes
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
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This page is a summary of: Predictors of neighbors’ attitudes toward persons with mental illness and therapeutic residential services in Brazil., Stigma and Health, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/sah0000178.
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