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Changing Attitudes About Schizophrenia
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Director, University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Tinely Park, IL
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director, University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Tinely Park, IL
Assistant Clinical Director, University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Tinely Park, IL
graduate student at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL
Professor of Psychology at Prairie State College Chicago Heights, IL
Reprint requests should be sent to Dr. E.P. Holmes, University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 7230 Arbor Drive, Tinley Park, IL 60477
Research on the effectiveness of short-term education programs in changing societal attitudes about mental illness has been mixed. Education efforts seem to be mediated by characteristics of the program participants. This study determines whether the effects of a specially prepared, semester-long course on severe mental illness are mediated by pre-education knowledge about and contact with severe mental illness. Eighty-three participants who were enrolled in either a course on severe mental illness or general psychology completed the Opinions about Mental Illness Questionnaire before beginning the course and at completion. Research participants also completed a pre- and posttest of knowledge about mental illness and a pretest on their contact with people who have severe mental illness. The education program had positive effects on some attitudes about mental illness. Interestingly, the effects of education group interacted with pre-education knowledge and contact and varied depending on attitude. Participants with more pre-education knowledge and contact were less likely to endorse benevolence attitudes after completing the education program. Participants with more intimate contact showed less improvement in attitudes about social restrictiveness. Implications of these augmentation and ceiling effects are discussed.
Keywords: Stigma / schizophrenia / attitudes / education
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