Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study

Álvaro Moraleda, Diego Galán-Casado and Adolfo J. Cangas
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Álvaro Moraleda: Department of Education, Camilo José Cela University, 28692 Madrid, Spain
Diego Galán-Casado: Department of Education, Camilo José Cela University, 28692 Madrid, Spain
Adolfo J. Cangas: Department of Psychology, Health Research Centre, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 19, 1-8

Abstract: For the past 15 years, a regular indoor football competition has been taking place in Madrid (Spain) with 15 teams from different mental health services in the city, in which teams face off weekly as part of a competition lasting nine months of the year. We are not aware of whether a similar competition experience is offered in other cities. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether participating in this league, called Ligasame, has an influence on participants’ self-stigma. To do so, the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale (ISMI) was adapted into Spanish and applied to 108 mental health patients, 40% of which participated in Ligasame, and the remainder of which did not. The results obtained reflect significant differences between those participating in Ligasame and those that did not in terms of two specific dimensions related to self-stigma (stereotype endorsement and stigma resistance) and total score. On the other hand, no significant differences were found in terms of other variables, such as patients’ prior diagnosis, age or belonging to different resources/associations. In this article, we discuss the importance of these results in relation to reducing self-stigma through participation in a regular yearly mental health football league.

Keywords: severe mental illness; sports; self-stigma; recovery; psychoeducation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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