Lay Meanings of Mental Health in Urban Indian College Youth: Insights For Mental Health Promotion

Mehrotra, Seema; Tripathi, Ravikesh; Elias, Jereesh K.

doi:10.1002/casp.2119

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“…Data from 6767 young people were included. Few studies included young people below 18 years of age [40,44,49,54,56,59,62,63] and studies varied by the proportion of females (33-100%). Twenty studies assessed stigma among college students who were health professionals-in training, i.e.…”

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Stigma associated with mental health problems among young people in India: a systematic review of magnitude, manifestations and recommendations

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Background Globally, 20% of young people experience mental disorders. In India, only 7.3% of its 365 million youth report such problems. Although public stigma associated with mental health problems particularly affects help-seeking among young people, the extent of stigma among young people in India is unknown. Describing and characterizing public stigma among young people will inform targeted interventions to address such stigma in India, and globally. Thus, we examined the magnitude and manifestations of public stigma, and synthesised evidence of recommendations to reduce mental-health-related stigma among young people in India. Method A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies was conducted. Nine electronic databases were searched and 30 studies (n = 6767) met inclusion criteria. Results Most studies (66%) focused on youth training to become health professionals. One-third of young people display poor knowledge of mental health problems and negative attitudes towards people with mental health problems and one in five had actual/intended stigmatizing behavior (I2>=95%). Young people are unable to recognize causes and symptoms of mental health problems and believe that recovery is unlikely. People with mental health problems are perceived as dangerous and irresponsible, likely due to misinformation and misunderstanding of mental health problems as being solely comprised of severe mental disorders (e.g. schizophrenia). However, psychiatric labels are not commonly used/understood. Conclusion Public education may use symptomatic vignettes (through relatable language and visuals) instead of psychiatric labels to improve young people’s understanding of the range of mental health problems. Recommended strategies to reduce public stigma include awareness campaigns integrated with educational institutions and content relevant to culture and age-appropriate social roles.

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“…This access can reduce the burden of disease within communities and improve the quality of life for individuals, potentially decreasing both individual and communal morbidity and mortality rates (Dennis et al., ). Often the improved health access is diagnosis or intervention specific, such as for diabetes (Henderson et al., ), tuberculosis (Ritchie et al., ), smoking cessation (Harris et al., ), mental health (Mehrotra et al., ), or a sexually transmitted infection (Lazarus et al., ). In other cases, the improved health access is more universal in scope (Hammerton, & Gottlieb, ).…”

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“…These references do not define this concept in broad terms, but instead offer specified functional meanings. The majority of these studies focused on lay worker health literacy in terms of functionality for a particular topic or interventions such as diabetes management (Henderson et al, 2013), tuberculosis care (Ritchie et al, 2016), smoking cessation (Harris et al, 2015), mental health (Mehrotra, Tripathi, & Elias, 2014), rheumatoid arthritis (Quinlan et al, 2013), or antiretroviral therapy (Lazarus, Safreed-Harmon, Nicholson, & Jaffar, 2014). Another major implied reference was the ability to provide health guidance to specific populations such as offender health in prison (South et al, 2014), screenings for rural native Hawaiian and Filipino women (Sentell, Cruz, Heo, & Braun, 2013), or Latino immigrants (Squires, & O'Brien, 2012).…”

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Lay Worker Health Literacy: A Concept Analysis and Operational Definition

Cadman

2017

Nurs Forum

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The concept of lay worker health literacy is created by concurrently analyzing and synthesizing two intersecting concepts, lay workers and health literacy. Articulation of this unique intersection is the result of implementing a simplified Wilson's Concept Analysis Procedure. This process incorporates the following components: a) selecting a concept, b) determining the aims/purposes of analysis, c) identifying all uses of the concept, d) determining defining attributes, e) identifying a model case, f) identifying borderline, related, contrary, and illegitimate cases, g) identifying antecedents and consequences, and h) defining empirical referents. Furthermore, as current literature provides no operational definition for lay worker health literacy, one is created to contribute cohesion to the concept.

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“…A mental health promotive program was hence developed for Indian youth following an exploratory phase aimed at understanding lay meanings of mental health as well as mental health related felt needs, preferences and perspectives of college students and teachers who were considered the key stakeholders. The major findings of the exploratory phase of the study and the development of this intervention program entitled "Feeling Good & Doing Well" as well as its components have been described elsewhere (Mehrotra, Tripathi, & Elias, 2012;Mehrotra, Elias, Chowdhury, & Gupta, 2013). It is a 20 hour, 8 session program that is typically delivered in once a week, interactive workshop format and spread over 1.5 months.…”

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Feeling Good and Doing Well? —Testing Efficacy of a Mental Health Promotive Intervention Program for Indian Youth

Mehrotra¹

2013

IJPS

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The need for moving beyond a narrow focus on diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation is well recognized in the field of mental health literature. However, there is a dearth of interventions for mental health promotion tested for use in the developing nations. The present study aimed at examining the efficacy of a mental health promotive intervention program, "Feeling Good and Doing Well" for Indian college youth. One hundred and seventy one college youth in a metropolitan city registered for the intervention trial, in response to program announcements. Eighty five and eighty six participants were assigned to the intervention and waitlist groups respectively. These groups were comparable on almost all the study variables at baseline. The intervention program (with three core themes, namely application of strengths, goal pursuit and emotional regulation) was conducted in the form of eight interactive group sessions. The waitlisted group also underwent the intervention at the end of the waiting period. Multiple outcomes were examined including wellbeing (positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, positive states of mind and psychological well-being), psychological distress and ratings on self-efficacy. Significant gains on well-being and self-efficacy ratings as well as decline in psychological distress were noted one month following intervention and these gains remained stable at four month follow up. This is one of the first multi-component interventions with potential utility to serve as a universal mental health promotion program for Indian youth.

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Lay Meanings of Mental Health in Urban Indian College Youth: Insights For Mental Health Promotion

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

Stigma associated with mental health problems among young people in India: a systematic review of magnitude, manifestations and recommendations

Stigma associated with mental health problems among young people in India: a systematic review of magnitude, manifestations and recommendations

Lay Worker Health Literacy: A Concept Analysis and Operational Definition

Feeling Good and Doing Well? —Testing Efficacy of a Mental Health Promotive Intervention Program for Indian Youth

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