How does the public understand the causes of mental disorders? An analysis of Irish news media before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Public perceptions of the determinants of mental illness have important implications for attitudes and stigma, but minimal previous research has explored how causal attributions are spontaneously invoked in everyday public discourse. This study investigated how causal explanations for mental illness...

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Main Authors: Leigh Huggard, Cliódhna O’Connor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10079019/?tool=EBI