title: La CLAve to increase psychosis literacy of Spanish-speaking community residents and family caregivers.
abstract: The authors developed and tested a 35-min psychoeducational program with the goal of increasing Spanish-speaking persons' literacy of psychosis. The program uses popular cultural icons derived from music, art, and videos, as well as a mnemonic device--La CLAve (The Clue)--to increase (a) knowledge of psychosis, (b) efficacy beliefs that one can identify psychosis in others, (c) attributions to mental illness, and (d) professional help-seeking. Assessments were conducted before and after administering the program to both community residents (n = 57) and family caregivers of persons with schizophrenia (n = 38). For community residents, the authors observed increases across the 4 domains of symptom knowledge, efficacy beliefs, illness attributions, and recommended help-seeking. For caregivers, increases were observed in symptom knowledge and efficacy beliefs. La CLAve is a conceptually informed psychoeducational tool with a developing empirical base aimed at helping Spanish-speaking Latinos with serious mental illness obtain care in a timely manner.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA. lopezs@usc.edu
authors.forename: Steven R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: López
authors.forename: Ma del Carmen
authors.initials: Mdel C
authors.lastname: Lara
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kopelowicz
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Solano
authors.forename: Hector
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Foncerrada
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aguilera
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000523:psychology; D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D015141:Los Angeles; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000628:therapy; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012803:Sick Role; D012933:Social Identification