Currently there is a lot of public stigma towards psychosis. This stigma reduces the desire of young patients with psychosis to receive treatment and increases the time they suffer from untreated psychosis. Previous research suggests that videos based on social encounters can reduce stigma. However, there is insufficient information in the literature regarding the effectiveness of short videos, lasting less than two minutes, which are suitable for advertising on social media used by young people.
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An article by researchers who examined a video-based intervention to reduce stigma associated with psychosis was recently published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin. The authors of the article published three controlled studies which demonstrated that videos reduce stigma towards psychosis in young people among the general population.
In the current article, the researchers sought to examine which aspects of the videos contributed to reducing stigma. In order to do this, the researchers reviewed the medical literature dealing with session-based interventions and examined how these interventions affect participants’ cognition, emotions, and behavior. Unlike previous studies, in this study the researchers examined changes in stigma over time and did not evaluate it by average scores. In addition, the researchers described future research directions, including the need to look for additional factors that influence the change in stigma.
The researchers concluded that the findings in this study can be used to develop short video-based interventions to reduce stigma.
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Samantha E Jankowski, Philip Yanos, Lisa B Dixon, Doron Amsalem, Reducing Public Stigma Towards Psychosis: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Effects of Social Contact Based Brief Video Interventions, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2022;, sbac143, https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac143