@article{3127001,
    title = "The influence of an anti-stigma intervention on adolescents' attitudes to schizophrenia: A mixed methodology approach",
    author = "Economou, M. and Peppou, L.E. and Geroulanou, K. and Louki, E. and Tsaliagkou, I. and Kolostoumpis, D. and Stefanis, C.N.",
    journal = "Child and Adolescent Mental Health",
    year = "2014",
    volume = "19",
    number = "1",
    pages = "16-23",
    issn = "1475-357X, 1475-3588",
    doi = "10.1111/j.1475-3588.2012.00669.x",
    keywords = "adolescent;  article;  attitude to mental illness;  controlled study;  female;  Greece;  health belief;  human;  major clinical study;  male;  priority journal;  psychoanalysis;  questionnaire;  randomized controlled trial;  schizophrenia;  social distance;  stigma;  student attitude",
    abstract = "Background: This study aimed at exploring adolescents' attitudes to schizophrenia and the impact of an educational intervention on improving them, by employing a mixed methodology. Method: A total of 1081 secondary-school students were randomly allocated to a control and intervention condition. Stigma endorsement was assessed by a free association card and a questionnaire, before and 2 weeks after the intervention. Results: The intervention yielded substantial changes in students' beliefs, attitudes and social distance levels as well as in their associations with the term 'severe mental illness'. Conclusions: Educational interventions can contribute substantially to preventing consolidation of unfavourable attitudes towards mental illness. © 2012 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health."
}