Clinical Trial: Expanded-Coming-Out-Proud Group on Reducing Self-stigma for People With a Severe Mental Illness- A Randomized Control Trial With Six-month Follow-up

U.S., Sept. 11 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07812298) titled 'Expanded-Coming-Out-Proud Group on Reducing Self-stigma for People With a Severe Mental Illness- A Randomized Control Trial With Six-month Follow-up' on Sept. 04.

Brief Summary: Globally, approximately one-third of people with severe mental illness report self-stigma. Self-stigma negatively affects recovery by lowering quality of life, self-esteem, and self-efficacy, and reducing treatment adherence, which can lead individuals to refuse psychiatric medication, experience increased psychiatric symptoms, and relapse. Multi-component interventions, which combine several single interventions, have been found to produce better outcomes ...