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Fighting Stigma
This document discusses reducing stigma related to mental illness through advertising. It notes that 1 in 4 Americans has a mental illness but stigma leads people to see those with mental illness as dangerous, incapable, or victims. Stigma also causes discrimination and hinders diagnosis and treatment. The document suggests advertising can help by sharing success stories that establish goals of improving attitudes, increasing willingness to disclose issues, and promoting anti-stigma engagement. It provides examples of campaigns like Bring Change 2 Mind and organizations in various countries that are working to address stigma through educational resources and outreach.
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Fighting Stigma
- 1. 1 PREPARED BY Using AdvertisingTheory and Practice to Improve Healthcare Delivery and Quality of Life @MARSINTHESTARS March 25, 2017 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ADVERTISING Marli Mesibov, Director of Content Strategy
- 2. 2 Mad*Pow | @marsinthestars MarliMesibov • Managing Director of Content Strategy at Mad*Pow • Editorial Director of UX Booth
- 3. 3 1 in 4Americans has a mental illness. Mad*Pow | @marsinthestars Fighting Stigma
- 4. 4 THE PROBLEM WITHSTIGMA
- 5. 5 • Believing peoplewith mental illnesses are dangerous • Determining that people with mental illnesses are incapable of making life decisions • Assuming people with mental illnesses are victims who need to be cared for Mad*Pow | @marsinthestars Stigma Means:
- 6. 6 “…Discrimination is alsoabout the conditions in which our patients live, mental health budgets and the priority which we allow these services to achieve.” – Peter Byrne, BJPsych Advances Mad*Pow | @marsinthestars Stigma Leads to Discrimination
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- 8. 8 • Physicians arereluctant to ask, and thus can’t diagnose • Patients feel shame in admitting to mental illness, which hinders finding treatment • Diagnosed patients experience exclusion, poor social support, and low self- esteem, which impedes recovery Mad*Pow | @marsinthestars We Can’t Face What We Ignore
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- 14. 14 WHERE ARE THEPATTERNS?
- 15. 15 • Do somethingvisible • Plan ahead o Create a campaign o Partner with organizations • Identify an action item o Wear the pin o Make the video Mad*Pow | @marsinthestars Where are the Patterns?
- 16. 16 1. improve attitudestowards people with mental health problems 2. increase patient willingness to disclose mental health problems 3. promote behavior associated with anti- stigma engagement Mad*Pow | @marsinthestars Goals
- 17. 17 Bring Change 2Mind • Distributing public education materials • Founded by Glenn Close’s family Heads Together (UK) • Spearheaded by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry • Creating films and messages Mad*Pow | @marsinthestars Who’s Doing This?
- 18. 18 Make It OK •Provides resources for patients and allies See Me (Scotland) • Provides educational resources • Funded by the Scottish Government Time to Change (UK) • Provides resources for patients and allies • Focuses on educating the media, offering interviews, etc Mad*Pow | @marsinthestars Who’s Doing This?
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Editor's Notes
- #4 More prevalent than asthma Raise hand if you know someone has asthma Raise your hand if you know someone who has a mental illness (fewer? More? Should be double) Diverse, like physical ailments
- #5 - When you don’t talk about it, rumors start and spread
- #6 Discrimination isn’t always bad But it is bad when different means lesser, or us v. them They are scary They are pathetic They are bad Friends/kids hear “they” and worry that it will be them
- #7 Leads to lower quality of life Fewer opportunities and access to care
- #8 Is this the only way to deal with mental illness? Who’s seen this in a movie or book? Most of us
- #9 Structural stigma in social and institutional policies creates barriers Lack of parity between coverage for mental health and other health care Lack of funding for mental health research Use of mental health history in legal proceedings, such as custody cases Social stigma poor social support poorer subjective quality of life low self-esteem
- #11 Three examples of marketing campaigns that reduced stigma and encouraged discussion, fund raising, education, and change The opposite of hiding is sharing
- #12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMnb536WuC0 - Norman Fowler, Health Secretary under Margaret Thatcher, responding to the mid-1980s epidemic. - “he wanted to cut through the prejudice and push the message that AIDS could affect any sexually active person, regardless of sexuality” Created AIDS leaflet to be delivered to every household in the UK spelling out in straightforward language what they needed to know Thatcher and other protested, thought it was “inappropriate” Maybe it succeeded in part because it was shocking! But also because it was everywhere - ‘new diagnoses of HIV, which were over 3,000 in 1985, dropped by a third in three years. The number of new diagnoses stayed relatively stable until 1999’.
- #13 Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Mid-1980s, beginning of cause-related marketing Carol Cone’s research proved at the same cost and quality, >50% of consumers would switch to a brand with a good cause. 1990 Komen handed out bright pink visors to breast cancer survivors running in its Race for the Cure Inspired by red ribbons used to signify support of AIDS victims 1991 Avon was competing against 15 medium-to-large companies. Carol Cone suggested a good cause, they started selling a pin with their products 1992 Estée Lauder introduced a heart-shaped compact with an enameled pink ribbon design, profits to go to its Breast Cancer Research Fund Susan G. Komen Foundation began offering a pink rhinestone brooch designed by Carolee Jewelry Today there are 80 to 100 companies involved Everyone associates pink ribbon with breast cancer Because large companies made it ubiquitous (to make a profit!)
- #14 More recent (2014) Raised more than $50 million for the ALS Association The myth: “ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi says that it began “with one name”: Pete Frates. A former Boston College baseball player, Frates was diagnosed with ALS in 2011. On July 31 2014, he challenged some friends and celebrities (including NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Matt Ryan) to take the ice bucket challenge to “strike out ALS.” It’s visible, it’s emotional, it’s unexpected, there are celebs, and there’s a clear CTA (basic marketing!!) VIRAL – what does this mean?
- #16 Jonah Berger, “Contagious” Partner with those that can fund Bring together groups already working for change (we don’t always need something brand new)