title: The impact of a TV report in schizophrenia stigma reduction: A quasi-experimental study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Stigma is a major problem in schizophrenia, and the most effective way to reduce it is to provide information. But literature lacks studies evaluating long-term efficacy of mass communication.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This is a pilot study to assess if a brief intervention (TV report) may have long-term effects.
  
  
  METHODS
  Assessing stigma scores from subjects before and after seeing a vignette.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found that the social distance and restriction to patients not only fell after a brief intervention but also kept lower after 1 and 3 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We conclude that even brief intervention may create persistent impact in reducing discrimination.
authors.affiliation: 1 University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Nathaly de Oliveira
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Bosoni
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Psychiatry and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Applied Neurosciences (NAPNA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Geraldo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Busatto Filho
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Psychiatry and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Applied Neurosciences (NAPNA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Daniel Martins
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: de Barros
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012929:Psychological Distance; D012559:Schizophrenia; D057545:Social Stigma; D013690:Television
keywords: Stigma; education; schizophrenia; science popularization