Litza Kiropoulos|Kathleen M Griffiths|Grant Blashki
Effects of a Multilingual Information Website Intervention on the Levels of Depression Literacy and Depression-Related Stigma in Greek-Born and Italian-Born Immigrants Living in Australia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Monash University|Australian Psychological Society|University of Melbourne|Australian National University|The George Institute for Global Health|University of Melbourne
little known efficacy internetbased information interventions increasing depression literacy reducing depression stigma depressive symptoms people nonenglishspeaking backgroundsour objective investigate effects multicultural information depression online midonline internetbased multilingual depressionspecific information resource depression literacy depression stigma depressive symptoms greekborn italianborn immigrants australiain 202 greek italianborn immigrants aged 48 88 years randomly allocated online depression information intervention n 110 depression interview control group n 92 participants allocated information intervention access website 1 15hour intervention session primary outcome measures depression literacy depression knowledge personal stigma personal stigma toward people mental illness perceived stigma participants views probable attitude general community toward people mental illness depressive symptoms depression literacy personal perceived stigma depressive symptoms assessed preassessment postassessment 1week followup assessment trial undertaken monash university melbourne australia randomization allocation trial group carried using computergenerated tablefor depression literacy significant difference midonline control group midonline intervention displaying higher depression literacy scores postassessment f1178 14499 p 001 followup assessment f1178 12913 p 001 control group addition midonline intervention showed significantly greater decrease mean personal stigma scores postassessment f1178 3875 p 001 followup assessment f1176 1108 p 001 control group perceived stigma significant difference midonline intervention control group postassessment f1178 060 p 44 followup assessment f1176 106 p 30 level depression significant difference midonline intervention control group preassessment f1201 056 p 45 postassessment f1178 003 p 86 followup assessment f1175 171 p 19 within group effect sizes depression literacy 178 midonline 007 control personal stigma 083 midonline 006 control perceived stigma 014 midonline 016 control depressive symptoms 010 midonline 010 controlcurrent results suggested internet may feasible effective means increasing depression knowledge decreasing personal stigma nonenglishspeaking immigrant populations residing englishspeaking countries lack change perceived stigma trial consistent results trials examining online depression stigma interventions englishspeaking groupsisrctn76460837 httpwwwcontrolledtrialscomisrctn76460837 archived webcite httpwwwwebcitationorg5xjxva4uq