Elizabeth L George, Kara A Rothenberg, Nicolas B Barreto, Rui Chen, Amber W Trickey, Shipra Arya
Simplifying Hospital Quality Comparisons for Vascular Surgery Using Center-Level Frailty Burden Rather Than Comorbidities
Annals of vascular surgery
obsessivecompulsive disorder ocd disabling disorder associated high interference peoples lives however patients ocd either seek help delay seeking help research suggests could explained poor mental health literacy disorder associated stigma study aims evaluate feasibility acceptability preliminary effectiveness mental health mobile app estocma developed improve knowledge ocd treatment increase helpseeking intention reduce stigmatizing attitudes social distance associated ocd used preintervention postintervention 3month followup assessments singlearm pilot intervention overall 90 participants recruited community using snowball sampling method used estocma defeat stigma monster course 10 missions participants completed sociodemographic information obsessivecompulsive inventoryrevised preassessment acceptability questionnaire postassessment measures completed preassessment postassessment 3month followup ie spanish mental illness stigma attribution questionnaire27 general helpseeking questionnaire social distance scale mental health literacy questionnaire 90 participants community assessed eligibility 86 n78 allocated intervention 78 participants 79 n62 completed game answered postintervention assessment completer group overall 69 4362 participants also completed 3month followup assessment participants completing study older p003 higher baseline knowledge ocd p05 participants took average 1364 sd 1050 days complete intervention including pre postassessments participants spent average 456 sd 333 days completing 10 missions included app mission took mean 2 sd 301 935 sd 306 minutes app rated useful useful vast majority participants 90 5662 moreover 90 5662 participants reported learned learned lot 98 6162 participants reported would recommend app friend repeated measures anova 4362 69 showed intervention participants showed increased knowledge mental health intention seek help well fewer stigmatizing attitudes less social distance preliminary data show estocma feasible acceptable app completing 10 missions increase understanding ocd helpseeking intention along decrease social stigma social distance associated ocd lasts least 3 months results support potential technologybased interventions increase intention seek help reduce stigma associated ocd larger communitycontrolled study also recommended