Predictors of depression stigma
| dc.contributor.author | Griffiths, Kathleen M | |
| dc.contributor.author | Christensen, Helen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jorm, Anthony F | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-04-23T04:30:05Z | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-20T06:03:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-04-23T04:30:05Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2010-12-20T06:03:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-04-18 | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-12-08T10:02:51Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: To investigate and compare the predictors of personal and perceived stigma associated with depression. METHOD: Three samples were surveyed to investigate the predictors: a national sample of 1,001 Australian adults; a local community sample of 5,572 residents of the Australian Capital Territory and Queanbeyan aged 18 to 50 years; and a psychologically distressed subset (n = 487) of the latter sample. Personal and Perceived Stigma were measured using the two subscales of the Depression Stigma Scale. Potential predictors included demographic variables (age, gender, education, country of birth, remoteness of residence), psychological distress, awareness of Australia's national depression initiative beyondblue, depression literacy and level of exposure to depression. Not all predictors were used for all samples. RESULTS: Personal stigma was consistently higher among men, those with less education and those born overseas. It was also associated with greater current psychological distress, lower prior contact with depression, not having heard of a national awareness raising initiative, and lower depression literacy. These findings differed from those for perceived stigma except for psychological distress which was associated with both higher personal and higher perceived stigma. Remoteness of residence was not associated with either type of stigma. CONCLUSION: The findings highlight the importance of treating the concepts of personal and perceived stigma separately in designing measures of stigma, in interpreting the pattern of findings in studies of the predictors of stigma, and in designing, interpreting the impact of and disseminating interventions for stigma. | |
| dc.format | 12 pages | |
| dc.identifier.citation | BMC Psychiatry 8.25 (2008): 1-12 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1471-244x | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10440/132 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/10440/132 | |
| dc.publisher | BioMed Central | |
| dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
| dc.source | BMC Psychiatry | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-244X-8-25.pdf | en_US |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/8/25 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Keywords: adult; article; Australia; awareness; community care; demography; depression; disease association; distress syndrome; educational status; female; health education; health survey; human; major clinical study; male; prediction; rating scale; reading; sex di | |
| dc.title | Predictors of depression stigma | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2008-04-18 | en_US |
| local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 25 | |
| local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 7 | |
| local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Griffiths, Kathleen M, Centre for Mental Health Research | en_US |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Christensen, Helen, Centre for Mental Health Research | en_US |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Jorm, Anthony F, University of Melbourne | en_US |
| local.contributor.authoruid | u8406985 | en_US |
| local.contributor.authoruid | u8804902 | en_US |
| local.contributor.authoruid | E11284 | en_US |
| local.identifier.absfor | 111714 | en_US |
| local.identifier.ariespublication | U4146231xPUB127 | en_US |
| local.identifier.citationvolume | 8 | |
| local.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1471-244X-8-25 | |
| local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-44049104245 | |
| local.identifier.thomsonID | 000256218400001 | |
| local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u9603729 | en_US |
| local.type.status | Published Version | en_US |
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