Portrayals of mental illness, treatment, and relapse and their effects on the stigma of mental illness: Population-based, randomized survey experiment in rural Uganda.

<h4>Background</h4>Mental illness stigma is a fundamental barrier to improving mental health worldwide, but little is known about how to durably reduce it. Understanding of mental illness as a treatable medical condition may influence stigmatizing beliefs, but available evidence to infor...

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Main Authors: Justin D Rasmussen, Bernard Kakuhikire, Charles Baguma, Scholastic Ashaba, Christine E Cooper-Vince, Jessica M Perkins, David R Bangsberg, Alexander C Tsai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-09-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002908