Contact With Persons With Mental Illness and Willingness to Live Next Door to Them: Two Waves of a California Survey of Adults.

CONCLUSIONS: Increased naturally occurring contact with individuals with mental illness appears to decrease unwillingness to move near a person with mental illness for as long as 1 year after the contact. Housing and services that aim to integrate individuals with mental illness into the community should consider strategies that include contact with individuals with mental illness to counter community opposition.
PMID: 33167813 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Psychiatric Services - November 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatr Serv Source Type: research