Interventions to reduce mental health stigma may work in young people

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Interventions in young people's lives to help them better understand mental health disorders or issues likely work to reduce the stigma surrounding the issue in the short term, say international researchers. The team performed a top-tier type of review of close to 100 past studies, including just shy of 45,000 people aged 10 to 24 years, and say interventions had a significant short-term association with improvements in stigma-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours, and help seeking attitudes and intentions.

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conference: JAMA Network Open

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Organisation/s: Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (IMHAY), Chile

Funder: This study was funded by Millennium Science Initiative Program grants NCS2021_081 and ICS13_005 and National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development grants 1221230 and 1210093 from the National Agency of Research and Development.

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