Stigma towards Mental Disorders among Nursing Students and Professionals: A Bibliometric Analysis

Concepción Martínez-Martínez, Francisca Esteve-Claramunt, Blanca Prieto-Callejero and Juan Diego Ramos-Pichardo
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Concepción Martínez-Martínez: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Europea de Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Francisca Esteve-Claramunt: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Europea de Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Blanca Prieto-Callejero: Nursing Department, University of Huelva, 21004 Huelva, Spain
Juan Diego Ramos-Pichardo: Nursing Department, University of Huelva, 21004 Huelva, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: Stigma is one of the main barriers to prevention, treatment and recovery from mental illness. However, bibliometric studies in this area are still scarce. Therefore, our aim was to quantify and analyze the scientific literature on the stigma of nursing students and professionals towards mental disorders. To this purpose, bibliometric indicators of scientific production, impact and collaboration were used. Among our results, it stands out that only 14.3% of the total number of studies analyzed measure the efficacy of the interventions carried out to reduce stigma. Furthermore, with exceptions such as Happell B and Byrne L, collaborations between authors and institutions are limited. “Service user involvement” appeared as a prominent keyword in 2018, coinciding with the increase in publications on the effectiveness of interventions. Interventions based on the involvement of people with psychiatric diagnoses in the design of nursing curricula seem to become a promising line of research. More studies measuring the efficacy of such interventions are needed. Knowledge of the lines of research that are being developed and of the researchers and institutions involved can contribute to creating synergy between the different researchers and to continue adding projects to the existing ones, thus contributing to the generation of more robust results that show the most indicated interventions to reduce the still present stigma and improve care for people with psychiatric diagnoses.

Keywords: mental disorders; nursing; stigma; lived-experience; bibliometric analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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