IN55: GIRESMO (Research Group for the Reduction of Stigma in Mental Health)

A research group focused on developing strategies to reduce stigma toward people with mental health issues. Its primary areas of focus are: adolescents in school settings, undergraduate students in health-related disciplines (medicine, psychology, nursing), and the health care professionals themselves who work within the health care system. An additional area of interest is the validation of instruments for objectively measuring stigma in Spanish.

Responsible researcher

Jesús de la Higuera Romero:
- E-mail: jar@cop.es
- ORCID: 0000-0002-2316-3254

Lines of research

Line of Research 1: Development of strategies to reduce stigma toward people with mental illness in the school setting: the “Lo Hablamos” program. The objective of this line of research is to develop intervention programs in the school setting aimed at reducing prejudice and discriminatory attitudes toward people with emotional problems. The interventions are carried out with pre-adolescents (ages 14–16), as this is the critical period when adult stereotypes begin to take shape.
Line 2: Development of strategies to reduce stigma toward people with mental illness among medical students—the INDIGO READ project (“The Effectiveness of Responding to Experienced and Anticipated Discrimination (READ) Training for Medical Students”).
Line 3: Design and validation of instruments for the objective assessment of stigma toward people with mental illness among adolescents. The objective of this line of research is to develop a set of assessment instruments—validated and adapted to the characteristics of this population—that will allow for the objective evaluation of stigmatizing attitudes toward people with emotional problems.

Keywords

# Mental Illness
# Stigma
# Discrimination

IN55: GIRESMO (Research Group for the Reduction of Stigma in Mental Health)

Responsible researcher

Jesús de la Higuera Romero:

Head of the URSM Section.

E-mail: jar@cop.es
ORCID: 0000-0002-2316-3254

Members of the Team

Principal Investigators:
- Jesús de La Higuera Romero (PI).
Researchers:
- Andrea Jiménez González-Moya.
- María Zurita Carrasco.
- María del Mar Espinosa Nogales.
- Paula Fuica Pereg.
- Eulalio Valmisa Gómez de Lara.
- Lucía Pilar Pérez Portas.
- Lourdes Acuña Domínguez.
- Abel González Luna.
- Santiago Jacobo Díaz Hurtado.
- Mario Cabrera Calandria.

IN55: GIRESMO (Research Group for the Reduction of Stigma in Mental Health)

Production

Find all of the group's publications ( Projects, Patents , and Publications) on the I+Salud Portal of the Andalusian Public Health System: