Fighting against self‐stigma in adults with self‐reported diagnosis of OCD: A single‐arm pilot study using a mobile app‐based intervention

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 10, 2025

Abstract Background Obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling disorder, and self‐stigma negatively impacts quality of life, symptom severity self‐esteem. esTOCma smartphone‐based serious game developed to increase knowledge about OCD reduce stigma. It features 10 missions using psychoeducation, indirect contact cognitive restructuring. Players help characters escape the stigma monster. Aims: To explore, in individuals with self‐reported diagnosis OCD, feasibility, acceptability preliminary effectiveness change OC severity, guilt, life Materials Methods A single‐arm pilot study 130 participants who completed pre‐, post‐ 3‐month follow‐up assessments. Results Half spent 9–10‐days playing app most them found it useful/very useful easy use. Self‐stigma was associated higher symptoms, guilt lower self‐esteem OCD. After app, showed levels self‐stigma, symptoms Changes were maintained or increased at follow‐up. Discussion feasible acceptable that could people their understanding dismiss same time life. replication control sample needed validate our findings. Conclusion Tools like accessible 24/7, offer means tackle detrimental effects.

Language: Английский

Mitigate or exacerbate? Assessing digital engagement's impact on mental health inequalities across gender and urban–rural divides

Digital Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Objectives Mental health inequalities have increasingly become an important factor affecting social well-being. Existing researches focused on the impact of digital mental health, but there is lack research exploring engagement inequalities. Methods Based data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) wave 2020, this study analyzed effects adult and using multinomial OLS models RIF models. Further, mitigating gender urban–rural were calculated decomposition. Results Digital positively predicts level Chinese adults, at same time mitigates among including between genders urban rural areas, effect stronger areas. In addition, diminished with increasing levels; however, was low high levels. Conclusions Both inequality are evident adults. can alleviate overall inequalities, while enhancing health. This provides new insights into how best to mitigate in era.

Language: Английский

Assessment of Public Stigma, Mental Health Literacy, and Help‐Seeking Intentions Based on Different Dimensions of Obsessive–Compulsive Content: A Study of the Spanish Mental Health‐Naïve Population

Brain and Behavior, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(12)

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

ABSTRACT Background Obsessive–compulsive (OC) disorder is a debilitating with high delay in help‐seeking that could be associated two barriers may differ between OC content dimensions: public stigma and mental health literacy. Objectives We aim to describe analyze the differences among dimensions stigma, social distance desire, literacy, intention sample of health‐naïve population. Methods A total 487 participants from Spanish community no previous knowledge or experience OCD were randomly allocated one six vignettes describing person symptoms out contents (i.e., aggression/harm; sexual; religious/blasphemous/immoral; contamination/washing; doubts/checking; superstition/symmetry/order). After reading vignette, completed following questionnaires their vignette: Attribution Questionnaire, General Help‐Seeking Social Distance Scale, Mental Health Literacy Questionnaire. Results There significant on variables interest. Aggression/harm was highest discriminating together religious/blasphemous/immoral desire. Although appear seek for formal treatment, would request less informal support sexual than other categories. Contamination, doubts/checking, superstition/symmetry/order more frequently identified as OCD, although only around 50% sexual, superstition/symmetry/order, problem. Conclusions Interventions reduce increase help seeking are necessary should consider heterogeneity.

Language: Английский