Greek university student's attitudes and beliefs concerning mental illness and its treatment.

DISCUSSION: The results of this study suggest that most students believe they know much about mental illness; however, overall their responses are contradictory. They reply with confidence although they are informed mainly by the media and the Internet in an unreliable way. A number of factors including gender, specific school or personal experience of mental disorder in the family seem to influence the result. A combined educational plus contact might be necessary to reduce stigma, since education alone seems to exert a weak effect.
PMID: 31311387 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - July 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kaparounaki CK, Koraka CA, Kotsi ES, Ntziovara AP, Kyriakidis GC, Fountoulakis KN Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research