 At home or in hospital: Home treatment and mental health stigmaAllerdiena A Hubbeling and Jared G Smith International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2022, vol. 68, issue 4, 866-872 Abstract: Background: Stigmatized attitudes towards people with mental illness may influence treatment choice for oneself and others. Aim: To gauge the attitudes of the UK general public towards treatment at home for mental illness and to assess the extent to which non-acceptability was related to stigmatized attitudes. Methods: Two hundred and two (101 female) people living in the UK completed an online (vignette) questionnaire in which we asked demographic details and personal experience of mental illness. To measure stigma, we used an adapted version of the Attitudes to Mental Illness Questionnaire (AMIQ) with vignettes asking about treatment at home and using scales for social distance and poor expectations; participants also filled in the Mental Health Knowledge Schedule (MAKS). Results: Participants did not evidence overall agreement with treatment at home for mental illness (i.e. >0; range = −16-to-+16, Mean ( M ) = 0.86, 95% confidence interval (CI) = −0.08, 1.80, p  = .073), although they showed significant agreement with treatment at home should they experience mental illness themselves (range = −8-to-+8, M  = 1.36, CI = 0.82, 1.89, p   Keywords: Home treatment; stigma; social distance; vignette (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:68:y:2022:i:4:p:866-872 DOI: 10.1177/00207640211009558 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Social Psychiatry |
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