Mental health literacy: a focus on daily life context for population health measurement
Mental health literacy: a focus on daily life context for population health measurement
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心理健康素养:关注日常生活背景以进行人口健康测量
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2021
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通讯作者:
C. Henderson
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作者:
Kia;S. Farrell;A. Jolly;R. Khangura;C. Henderson
BackgroundA core purpose of mental health literacy is to enable everyone from all walks of life to manage and maintain wellbeing in daily life. However, mental health literacy in daily life context is not adequately captured by existing measures due to a prevailing focus on ‘mental disorder literacy’. We developed three measures of mental health literacy in terms of knowledge, and attitudes that may evoke the use of this knowledge, of signs and actions in everyday life when mental health is affected by depression, anxiety and stress. Construct validation was performed to examine the suitability of these measures for population health surveillance. MethodsIn October 2019 Public Health England, funded by the UK government, launched a digital resource, Every Mind Matters, aimed at improving mental health literacy in the general population and empowering action around daily life stress and anxiety, mood, and sleep. Baseline data for evaluating Every Mind Matters was collected via an online survey of the general public (n = 3262 adults). For construct validation, we investigated dimensionality and hypotheses of logical associations with mental health literacy. ResultsStructural validation results lend credence to our claim that the primary influence on item responses to the three measures is mental health literacy. These responses show logical associations with knowledge about sleep hygiene, attitudes indicative of stigma towards mental health, and some indirect experience with mental health difficulties. Item response theory information plots showed that total scale scores are sensitive to a wide range of individual differences in mental health literacy. This means the three knowledge and attitudes measures can be administered to a diverse group of people for early screening purposes or to evaluate the impact of public mental health interventions.Conclusions To monitor societal changes in mental health literacy, population surveillance will need measures that tap into lay knowledge and attitudes about mental health in the context of everyday life using non-technical language of the general public. More contextually informed data are needed to construct sound measurement for steering empirical debates about mental health literacy in societies with high- and low-resource healthcare systems.
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DOI:
10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09121743
发表时间:
2010-11
期刊:
The American journal of psychiatry
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作者:
Pescosolido BA;Martin JK;Long JS;Medina TR;Phelan JC;Link BG
通讯作者:
Link BG
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作者:
Kessler, RC;Berglund, P;Walters, EE
通讯作者:
Walters, EE
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
R. Mojtabai
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R. Mojtabai
影响因子:
12.7
作者:
Hidalgo B;Goodman M
通讯作者:
Goodman M
影响因子:
5.4
作者:
Pinto-Foltz, Melissa D.;Logsdon, M. Cynthia;Myers, John A.
通讯作者:
Myers, John A.