Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study
For the past 15 years, a regular indoor football competition has been taking place in Madrid (Spain) with 15 teams from different mental health services in the city, in which teams face off weekly as part of a competition lasting nine months of the year. We are not aware of whether a similar competi...
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| author | Moraleda, Álvaro Galán Casado, Diego Antonio Cangas Díaz, Adolfo Javier |
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| description | For the past 15 years, a regular indoor football competition has been taking place in Madrid (Spain) with 15 teams from different mental health services in the city, in which teams face off weekly as part of a competition lasting nine months of the year. We are not aware of whether a similar competition experience is offered in other cities. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether participating in this league, called Ligasame, has an influence on participants’ self-stigma. To do so, the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale (ISMI) was adapted into Spanish and applied to 108 mental health patients, 40% of which participated in Ligasame, and the remainder of which did not. The results obtained reflect significant differences between those participating in Ligasame and those that did not in terms of two specific dimensions related to self-stigma (stereotype endorsement and stigma resistance) and total score. On the other hand, no significant differences were found in terms of other variables, such as patients’ prior diagnosis, age or belonging to different resources/associations. In this article, we discuss the importance of these results in relation to reducing self-stigma through participation in a regular yearly mental health football league. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-75052023-04-12T19:45:12Z Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study Moraleda, Álvaro Galán Casado, Diego Antonio Cangas Díaz, Adolfo Javier severe mental illness sports self-stigma recovery psychoeducation For the past 15 years, a regular indoor football competition has been taking place in Madrid (Spain) with 15 teams from different mental health services in the city, in which teams face off weekly as part of a competition lasting nine months of the year. We are not aware of whether a similar competition experience is offered in other cities. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether participating in this league, called Ligasame, has an influence on participants’ self-stigma. To do so, the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale (ISMI) was adapted into Spanish and applied to 108 mental health patients, 40% of which participated in Ligasame, and the remainder of which did not. The results obtained reflect significant differences between those participating in Ligasame and those that did not in terms of two specific dimensions related to self-stigma (stereotype endorsement and stigma resistance) and total score. On the other hand, no significant differences were found in terms of other variables, such as patients’ prior diagnosis, age or belonging to different resources/associations. In this article, we discuss the importance of these results in relation to reducing self-stigma through participation in a regular yearly mental health football league. 2020-01-17T08:35:04Z 2020-01-17T08:35:04Z 2019-09-29 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1660-4601 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7505 en https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/19/3599 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | severe mental illness sports self-stigma recovery psychoeducation Moraleda, Álvaro Galán Casado, Diego Antonio Cangas Díaz, Adolfo Javier Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study |
| title | Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study |
| title_full | Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study |
| title_fullStr | Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study |
| title_short | Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study |
| title_sort | reducing self-stigma in people with severe mental illness participating in a regular football league: an exploratory study |
| topic | severe mental illness sports self-stigma recovery psychoeducation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7505 |
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