Research has shown that nearly 40 percent of youth in low-income communities exhibit significant mental health needs – needs which remain largely unaddressed due to a myriad of barriers, including system-level obstacles, such as waiting lists, stigma related to seeking mental health care, poverty, family stress, and competing priorities.
Medical students experience depression at a higher rate than the general population and attach high levels of stigma to the mental illness, according to University of Michigan Health System research to be published Sept. 15 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Included in this report is a video interview with Thomas L. Schwenk, […]
Medical students surveyed at University of Michigan Medical School with moderate to severe depression more frequently endorsed several depression stigma attitudes than non-depressed students. They also had a higher rate of suicidal thoughts, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA – a theme issue on medical education.
A joint study by Indiana University and Columbia University researchers found no change in prejudice and discrimination toward people with serious mental illness or substance abuse problems despite a greater embrace by the public of neurobiological explanations for these illnesses. The results were published online Sept. 15 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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