Beliefs and Attitudes of Mental Health Professionals with Respect to Gambling and Other High Risk Behaviors in Schools

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 716-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline E. Temcheff ◽  
Jeffrey L. Derevensky ◽  
Renée A. St-Pierre ◽  
Rina Gupta ◽  
Isabelle Martin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

Correlation between attachment style and mental health with high risk behaviors in adolescences

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Asadi ◽  
Zeinab Saeediaee ◽  
Mehdi Mohammadi ◽  
Mahdi Kheradmand
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
High Risk Behaviors

scholarly journals An Instrument to Measure Mental Health Professionals’ Beliefs and Attitudes towards Service Users’ Rights

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Eiroa-Orosa ◽  
Laura Limiñana-Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
High Concordance ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

We aimed at developing and validating a scale on the beliefs and attitudes of mental health professionals towards services users’ rights in order to provide a valid evaluation instrument for training activities with heterogeneous mental health professional groups. Items were extracted from a review of previous instruments, as well as from several focus groups which have been conducted with different mental health stakeholders, including mental health service users. The preliminary scale consisted of 44 items and was administered to 480 mental health professionals. After eliminating non-discriminant and low weighting items, a final scale of 25 items was obtained. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses produced a four-factor solution consisting of the following four dimensions; system criticism/justifying beliefs, freedom/coercion, empowerment/paternalism, and tolerance/discrimination. The scale shows high concordance with our theoretical model as well as adequate parameters of explained variance, model fit, and internal reliability. Additional work is required to assess the cultural equivalence and psychometrics of this tool in other settings and populations, including health students.

scholarly journals The Association of Mental Health with Family Relationships and High-Risk Behaviors in Female Students of South-Eastern Iran

Health Scope ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariba Shahraki-Sanavi ◽  
Fatemeh Rakhshani ◽  
Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam ◽  
Mahdi Mohammadi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Female Students ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Iran

Efficacy of an Intervention to Reduce Stigma Beliefs and Attitudes Among Primary Care and Mental Health Professionals: Two Cluster Randomized-Controlled Trials

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco José Eiroa-Orosa ◽  
María Lomascolo ◽  
Anaïs Tosas-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Health Diagnosis ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Health Centres ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes ◽  
Health Diagnosis

Although it may seem paradoxical, primary care and mental health professionals develop prejudices and discriminatory attitudes towards people with mental health problems in a very similar way to the rest of the population. The main objective of this project was to design, implement and evaluate two awareness interventions respectively tailored to reduce stigma and discrimination beliefs and attitudes towards persons with a mental health diagnosis among primary care (PC) and mental health (MH) professionals. These interventions were developed by Obertament, the Catalan alliance against stigma and discrimination in mental health. The TLC3 (Targeted, Local, Credible, Continuous Contact) methodology was adapted to the Catalan PC and MH professional contexts. Activists with lived experience of mental health diagnosis carried out awareness-raising interventions in PC and MH health centres. The efficacy of these interventions was evaluated using two prospective double-blind cluster-wait-list-randomized-controlled trial experimental designs. Stigmatizing beliefs and behaviours were measured with the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers in primary care centres and with the Beliefs and Attitudes towards Mental Health Service users’ rights in mental health centres. Positive reductions in both PC and MH professionals’ stigmatising beliefs and attitudes were found in the 1-month follow-up, although a ‘rebound effect’ at the 3-month follow up was also detected. This emphasizes the importance of the continuity of the presence of anti-stigma activities and messages. Attrition rates where high, which can hamper the reliability of the results. Further follow-up studies should enquiry effects of long-term interventions aimed at reducing stigmatising beliefs and attitudes among primary care and mental health professionals.

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