Involving Persons With Lived Experience to Improve Vocational Students' Stigmatizing Attitudes Toward Mental Disorders: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
Concepción Martínez-MartínezVanessa Sánchez-MartínezLaura Aguilar-GascónÁngela María Ortega-GalánJuan Diego Ramos-PichardoPublished in: Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (2022)
Vocational students' negative attitudes and emotions can be improved through a direct contact intervention in the classroom involving people who have experienced a mental disorder themselves. The age range for optimal results with this type of intervention appears to be 18 to 20 years.