Publications by authors named "Sophia Rieckhof"
Background: Self-stigma is associated with low self-esteem, high shame and reduced drinking-refusal self-efficacy in people with alcohol use disorder (AUD). The Self-Stigma in Alcohol-Dependence Scale-Short Form (SSAD-SF) was designed to enable a brief, but valid assessment of AUD self-stigma.
Methods: We reduced the 64-item SSAD, originally derived from 16 stereotypes towards people with AUD, by removing the most offensive items based on perspectives of people with lived experience.
Background: It has been hypothesized that mental illness stigma differs according to what matters most to people, and that this results in value-based differences in stigma within societies. However, there is a lack of stigma measures that account for a broad range of values, including modern and liberal values.
Methods: For the development of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI) a preliminary item-pool of 68 VASI-items was assembled by mental health and stigma experts.
Objective: We present a German version of the Prejudice towards People with Mental Illness Scale in long (PPMI-D) and short form (PPMI-D) and provide a psychometric evaluation in a German population sample.
Methods: After German translation (including back-translation), an online survey (N = 1004) was conducted.
Results: Item difficulty and selectivity are in the desirable medium range.
Purpose: Several studies have evaluated the effectiveness of art therapy for cancer patients. Our aim was to determine the effects of outpatient art therapy on the quality of life (QoL) of highly vs. less distressed cancer patients.
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