Scholars suggest that public mental health stigma operates at a meso-level and is
associated with severity of symptoms, disclosure, self-esteem, and treatment-seeking …

Objective: There is considerable evidence that racial stigma and stigma due to mental
illness or addiction are each independently a barrier to help-seeking for Black adults. The …

Across multiple stigmatized groups, research suggests that stigma may negatively impact
individual wellbeing. This impact often occurs through a sequential pathway that includes …

The inability to access health services when needed is a critical barrier to HIV prevention,
treatment and care among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women …

Background HIV prevalence among people who use drugs (PWUD) in Tanzania is 4–7
times higher than in the general population, underscoring an urgent need to increase HIV …

Background Each year, alcohol use causes 3.3 million deaths globally and accounts for
nearly 30% of injuries treated at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) in Moshi …

Mass incarceration and its ill effects remains a major social problem in the United States.
Those exiting the criminal justice system reenter society with the label of ex-convict, a label …

Utilizing a sample of 286 community-dwelling adults with severe mental disorders (SMDs) in
Beijing, this study examined their social and community participation during COVID-19 …

Purpose: The Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R; Derogatis, 1992) is a widely used
self-report measure of psychiatric symptoms (Prinz et al., 2013), but it is longer than many …

Background: Although the relationship between the occurrence of suicide and the presence
of psychosocial suffering in bereaved relatives is clear, there are still few studies that deal …