Reference; Type of Contact-Based Interventions

Aim

Intervention

Main Results

Brown (2009) [47] ; video-based social contact.

To assess the effect of a faith-based service learning project on reducing the stigma of mental illness and substance abuse as well as on increasing student nurses’ knowledge and skills on community mental health.

The faith-based intervention was a 90-minutes workshop included the following:

1) A PowerPoint presentation on information about causes, signs, symptoms, and treatments of mental illness and substance abuse.

2) A brief video provided commentaries from individuals with mental illness, their families, and faith communities that give support.

3) Interactive learning activity or game.

Decrease in the stigma of mental illness among nursing students and increasing student nurses’ knowledge and skills about community mental health.

Clement, van Nieuwenhuizen, Kassam, Flach, Lazarus, De Castro, McCrone, Norman, and Thornicroft (2012) [48] ; both social contact and video-based social contact.

To compare the impact of a DVD-based contact, a live contact, and a lecture control on decreasing the stigma of mental illness.

Nursing students, who were randomly assigned to the DVD-based contact group, watched a DVD of people with mental illness and their informal care providers telling their first-hand experiences about mental illness and associated stigma. The DVD lasted for 71 minutes and followed by discussion. On the other hand, student nurses who were assigned to the live intervention group attended a presentation primarily delivered by a person with mental illness and informal care provider in which they provided personal testimonies about their experiences of mental illness and its stigma. The presentation followed by factual information delivered by one of the researchers regarding to the key points discussed by the presenters. Finally, questions-answers session was took place in which the presenters answered student nurses’ concerns.

Both live and DVD-based contact groups had more positive attitudes and behaviors than the control group (lecture).

Coleman (2007) [49] ; video-based social contact.

To assess the impact of age and video-based educational materials about schizophrenia on the attitudes of nursing students towards people with schizophrenia.

Nursing students in the experimental group watched a 60-minutes educational videotape on schizophrenia. This videotape gave information about the causes and treatments of schizophrenia, as well as consequences for individuals living with schizophrenia. It included interviews with persons with schizophrenia and their families who provided their experiences of having this mental illness.

Neither age nor video-based education about schizophrenia had a positive impact on the attitudes of nursing students towards people with schizophrenia.