“…Still, research efforts have almost exclusively focused on the opinions, beliefs, and attitudes of the general populations towards mental illnesses (López et al, 2012b;Serra et al, 2013) or among health professionals (Martínez et al, 2011;Polanco-Fronteras et al, 2013;Rao, Mahadevappa, Pillay, Sessay, Abraham, & Luty, 2009). Furthermore, although this research has documented the stigmatization processes outside the US (Baysan Arabaci, & Çam, 2012;López et al, 2012b), developing countries within Latin America and the Caribbean have been neglected (Piza Peluso & Blay, 2004). Although recent literature on the stigmatization of mental illnesses has begun to emerge in Puerto Rico, the focus has been on health professionals in training (Varas-Díaz et al, 2012;Polanco-Fronteras et al, 2013).…”