Siyuan He, Sixian He, Xin Gao
Innovative Practice of Multimusic Performance Culture Education of Core Literacy in Multimedia Environment
Journal of environmental and public health
study aims examine time trends ability correctly identify schizophrenia major depression within german general population 1990 2020 indicator changing mental health literacy mhl additionally investigated shifts use stigmatizing language analysis based four waves representative population surveys germany 19901993 west germany n 2044 east germany n 1563 2001 n 5025 2011 n 2455 2020 n 3042 using identical methodology respondents presented unlabelled case vignette describing person exhibited symptoms either schizophrenia major depression participants asked name problem described vignette using openended question 19901993 2020 correct identification schizophrenia increased 18 34 27 46 major depression however derogatory labels remained constant throughout survey waves particularly schizophrenia 19 19901993 18 2020 depression trivializing potentially devaluing statements recorded despite increasing use psychiatric terminology among general population persistence derogatory labels suggests improved mhl reflected higher recognition rates may automatically translate reduction stigmatizing language depression normalization trivialization severe illness could pose new challenges people major depression dedicated efforts combat stigma severe mental illness still needed