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PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 248-258Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0028048
Keywords
self-stigma; severe mental illness; narrative
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- Intramural NIH HHS Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R34-MH082161, R34 MH082161] Funding Source: Medline
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Elevated internalized stigma is common and is linked to subjective and objective outcomes for severe mental illness. The authors developed a manualized group-based intervention (Narrative Enhancement/Cognitive Therapy; NECT) to address internalized stigma in severe mental illness. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of NECT. In total, 144 individuals were screened at two sites to evaluate if they met criteria for elevated internalized stigma; 39 and were eligible were randomized to NECT or to treatment as usual (TAU) and were assessed at baseline, posttreatment, and 3-month follow-up. Fifteen of the 21 individuals assigned to NECT were classified as exposed to treatment. Intent-to-treat analyses found no significant difference between the NECT and TAU groups. A comparison of exposed versus unexposed participants noted trends for exposed participants to have improved more in two aspects of self-stigma as well as insight. We conclude that NECT is feasible and tolerable, but findings did not support the hypothesis that NECT was more effective than TAU, although small sample size and significant dropout may have restricted the ability to detect an effect.
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