The Effect of a Multi-Component Educational and Contact-Based Intervention on Mental Illness Stigma among Nursing Students

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

IRCT

Registry ID

IRCT20260107068582N2

Enrollment

Registered

2026-01-14

Start date

2026-01-21

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-02-02

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Conditions

Mental Illness Stigma.

Interventions

Intervention 1: Intervention group: Interventional program for intervention group consists of 3 educational- contact- based sessions. Sessions will be delivered weekly and during continious 3 weeks. D

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The participant should study nursing at the second semester of Bachler of science in Urmia and Khoy universities at 2025-2026. ? They should not pass the courses related to the mental health.They should understand the Persian and complete the questionnaires in Farsi.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: The participant do not continue to take part in the study. He/she withdraw form the study. He/she be absent in one ore more sessions of intervention.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Mental Illness Stigma. Timepoint: Before and after intervantion. Method of measurement: The instrument used for data collection in this study will be consist of two parts. The first part will be a demographic characteristics form, which will gather information on participants' age, gender,marital status, firt growth and live location, and ... . The second part of data collection tool will be the The Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers. This instrument was developed by Kassam et al. (2012) in Canada. The OMS-HC is comprising 20 items rated on a 5-point Likert scale, designed to evaluate participant attitudes to mental disorders. The questionnaire consists of five main dimensions: social distance, Disclosure, Recovery, Social responsibility, Diagnostic overshadowing, and Dangerousness.	—

Measure

Time frame

Mental Illness Stigma. Timepoint: Before and after intervantion. Method of measurement: The instrument used for data collection in this study will be consist of two parts. The first part will be a demographic characteristics form, which will gather information on participants' age, gender,marital status, firt growth and live location, and ... . The second part of data collection tool will be the The Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers. This instrument was developed by Kassam et al. (2012) in Canada. The OMS-HC is comprising 20 items rated on a 5-point Likert scale, designed to evaluate participant attitudes to mental disorders. The questionnaire consists of five main dimensions: social distance, Disclosure, Recovery, Social responsibility, Diagnostic overshadowing, and Dangerousness.

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Countries

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Contacts

Public ContactSamira Orujlu

Oroumia University of Medical Sciences

samira_orojlo@yahoo.com+98 44 3275 4916

Outcome results

None listed

Source: IRCT (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 7, 2026