Mitigating the impact of the media on stigmatising attitudes towards people with severe mental illness

媒体是有关精神疾病的信息的关键来源，它具有在广泛范围内减少对严重精神疾病(SMI)的污名的强大潜力。我的博士研究将调查媒体对SMI耻辱的报道的影响，了解利益相关者对SMI媒体报道的观点和建议，制定媒体报道指南以减少耻辱，并在指南的基础上对新闻系学生进行简短干预。

The media is a key source of information about mental illness, it has strong potential to reduce stigma towards severe mental illness (SMI) on a widespread scale. My PhD research will investigate the influence of media reporting on stigma towards SMI, gain an understanding of stakeholders’ perspectives on and recommendations for media reporting on SMI, develop media reporting guidelines to reduce stigma, and develop and trial a brief intervention based on the guidelines with journalism students.