Sara Evans?Lacko|Claire Henderson|Graham Thornicroft
Public knowledge, attitudes and behaviour regarding people with mental illness in England 2009-2012
King's College London|King's College London|King's College London
background public stigma people mental health problems damaging individuals mental illness associated substantial societal burden aims investigate whether public knowledge attitudes behaviour relation people mental health problems improved among english population since inception time change programme 2009 method analysed longitudinal trends public knowledge attitudes behaviour 2009 2012 among nationally representative sample english adults results improvements intended behaviour 007 standard deviation units 95 ci 001014 nonsignificant trend improvement attitudes p 008 among english population however significant improvement knowledge reported behaviour conclusions findings provide support effectiveness national time change programme stigma discrimination improving attitudes intended behaviour knowledge among public england