Stop stigma survey

STOP Stigma: Students Together Overcoming Prejudice and Stigma

STOP Stigma Survey (student version) Class: ____________ Male Female Date: __________ This is an anonymous and confidential survey about what you know / think about Mental Health. It is being used at the beginning and end of a project you are going to do in school called ‘STOP Stigma’. The survey will help us evaluate the project. No-one will see your individual answers. We have only asked for class / gender information so that we can compare groups of results when we repeat the survey at the end of the project. Please read the statements below and tick one of the boxes labelled 1 to 5. Please answer as truthfully as possible. There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers and this is not a test.

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1 Anyone can have a mental health problem.

2 I would be too embarrassed to tell anyone that I had a mental health problem.

3 I would be happy to have someone with a mental health problem at my school or place of work.

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Mental health problems are not real illnesses in the same way that physical illnesses are; people with mental health problems should just ‘pull themselves together’.

5 People with mental health problems are likely to be violent.

6 It's easy to spot someone with a mental health problem.

7 Once you have a mental health problem you have it for life.

8 Medication is the only treatment for mental health problems.

9 Someone with a mental health problem should have the same right to a job as anyone else.

10 I would not want to live next door to someone with a mental health problem.

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11 Anyone with a history of mental health problems should be excluded from public office (e.g. from being Prime Minister or in the Government).

12 As soon as a person shows signs of a mental health problem they should be put into hospital.

13 If I thought a friend had a mental health problem I would stay away from them.

14 It is important for a person with a mental health problem to be part of a supportive community that includes family and friends.

15 I have heard a person I know call someone names like ‘nutter’, ‘psycho’, ‘loony’.

16 If I thought a friend had a mental health problem I would want to help them.

17 If I thought that I had a mental health problem I would talk to someone.

18 People are born with mental health problems.

19 Using words like ‘nutter’, ‘psycho’, ‘loony’ is just a bit of fun. No-one gets hurt.

20 Mental health problems only affect adults, not children and young people.

21 If I thought that I had a mental health problem I would know how to get help.

22 Only certain kinds of people develop mental health problems.

23 It’s more important to spend National Health Service (NHS) money on treating physical conditions rather than mental health problems.