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Query: UMLS:C0277787 (
stigma
)
13,352
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
The purpose of this study is to determine how the demographics of perceivers influence their
stigma
of people with mental illness or with substance abuse. A nationally representative sample (N = 968) was asked to respond to a vignette describing a person with a health condition (schizophrenia, drug dependence, or
emphysema
) and his/her family member. Consistent with our hypotheses, women were less likely to endorse
stigma
than men. Participants with higher education were also less likely to stigmatize than less educated participants. Contrary to our expectations, nonwhite research participants were more likely to endorse
stigma
than whites. Implications of these findings for better understanding the
stigma
of mental illness, and the development of anti-
stigma
programs, are reviewed.
...
PMID:The stigma of psychiatric disorders and the gender, ethnicity, and education of the perceiver. 1787 5
