Pamela Grandón
Biographic Data
| ID | 1653099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Grandón |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Grandón |
| SIGNATURE | GRANDÓN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Concepción |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3952-1888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Âmbito e desafios do modelo comunitário em saúde mental
A implementação de modelos de saúde mental baseados na comunidade na América Latina, e particularmente no Chile, tem ganhado crescente relevância nas últimas décadas. Este estudo teve como objetivo explorar o alcance e os desafios associados à implementação do modelo de saúde mental baseado na comunidade no Chile, a partir da perspectiva de profissionais que atuam em serviços de atenção secundária à saúde e de gestores de saúde mental. A pesquisa…
Alcances y desafíos del modelo comunitario en salud mental
La implementación de modelos comunitarios de salud mental en América Latina y en particular en Chile, ha cobrado una relevancia creciente en las últimas décadas. Este estudio se propuso explorar los alcances y desafíos asociados a la implementación del modelo comunitario de salud mental en Chile, desde la perspectiva de profesionales que laboran en dispositivos de nivel secundario y gestores de salud mental. La investigación, de carácter cualitat…
Multicomponent intervention to reduce internalized stigma in people with a diagnosis of severe mental disorder: A mixed pilot trial
A social determination framework for mental health
BACKGROUND: Mainstream global mental health continues to privilege individual-level risk factors and biomedical approaches and treatments while sidelining the structural forces that shape mental distress. Despite calls for more socially embedded and decolonial approaches, policy and research too often neglect how structural phenomena such as globalization, colonialism, and neoliberal reforms directly drive mental health inequities. MAIN BODY: Dra…
Stigma and Relationship and Sexual Life in People with Severe Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review
Mental Health Crisis in Adolescents and Young People? The Role of Social Psychiatrization
Concern about the apparent increase in mental health problems among adolescents and young people has intensified considerably in recent years, with it being common nowadays to refer to a "mental health crisis" in this age group. Available epidemiological studies confirm an increase in internalized behaviors within this population. This article proposes that the sociocultural process of "social psychiatrization" in contemporary society is an indis…
Experiences of stigma and discrimination and their relationship with internalized stigma in individuals diagnosed with severe mental disorders in Gran Concepción, Chile
This qualitative study explored the relationship between experiences of stigma and discrimination, and internalized stigma in people with severe mental disorders residing in Gran Concepción, Chile. Twelve participants were selected from a secondary care health center through a maximum variation sampling. Data were collected using semi-structured in-depth interviews, followed by reflective thematic analysis. Responses addressed four themes: 1) per…
Stigma toward people with mental disorders in mental healthcare in Chile
OBJECTIVE: This research aimed to determine the stigma toward people with mental illness among mental health personnel and identify individual, professional, and contextual predictors. METHODS: A descriptive, cross-sectional, and correlational design was used. The sample consisted of 218 mental health personnel working in Outpatient Psychiatric Units belonging to hospitals and Community Mental Health Centers in Chile. Stigma was evaluated using a…
Development and Psychometric Properties of Associative Stigma in Mental Healthcare Providers Scale (ESA-MHP)
Psychometric properties of the attitudes scale of health care professionals’ toward people with a diagnosis of mental illness (Eaps-TM)
Internalized stigma and self-stigma in people diagnosed with a mental disorder. One concept or two? A scoping review
BACKGROUND: In the literature on stigma, authors often use self-stigma or internalized stigma interchangeably to refer to this type of stigma. This results in a lack of conceptual clarity with negative repercussions for measurement and intervention. AIMS: To identify how internalized stigma and self-stigma are conceptualized in people diagnosed with a mental disorder and establish similarities and differences between both concepts. METHOD: A scop…
Interventions to reduce the stigma of mental health at work: A narrative review
Mental disorders in the media: A retrospective study of newspaper coverage in the Chilean Press
BACKGROUND: The mass media are relevant in shaping the population's attitudes towards mental disorders. In low- and middle-income countries there is little information about the portrayal of people with mental disorders in the mass media. AIM: The general objective of the study was to assess the tone and content of Chilean newspaper articles about mental disorder from 2000 to 2019. METHOD: The digital editions of four national circulation Chilean…
Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives on Mental Illness and Substance Use Stigma
Systematic Review of Explanatory Models of Internalized Stigma in People Diagnosed with a Mental Disorder
Stigmatization of people diagnosed with a mental disorder in secondary mental health centers in Chile: An ethnographic study
To understand how stigmatization of people diagnosed with a mental disorder occurs in secondary mental healthcare staff in mental healthcare centers in Chile was the objective of the study. A descriptive qualitative and interpretative design with an ethnographic approach was used. Participants' observations, ethnographic, and semi‐structured interviews were conducted with professionals at three secondary mental health centers. Qualitative descrip…
An Integrative Program to Reduce Stigma in Primary Healthcare Workers Toward People With Diagnosis of Severe Mental Disorders: A Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Background: People with severe mental disorders (SMDs) have higher disease and death rates than the general population. Stigma (negative attitudes and perceptions) contributes to limited access to health services and a lower quality of medical assistance in this population, and it is manifested as negative attitudes, social distance, and discrimination toward this social group. For these reasons, healthcare workers are a priority group for anti-s…
Atención en salud mental de las personas con diagnóstico psiquiátrico grave y su recuperación
Aspectos de la atención a personas con diagnóstico de trastorno mental grave (TMG), particularmente el buen trato y la estigmatización, influirían en su recuperación. La investigación, un estudio cualitativo descriptivo y transversal, buscó analizar la percepción sobre la atención en salud mental de personas con TMG y las posibilidades de recuperación que ésta les brinda. Se tomó una muestra por conveniencia de 16 personas diagnosticadas con esqu…
Integrated mapping of local mental health systems in Central Chile
This survey of local MH service provision in small catchment areas using the DESDE-LTC tool provided MH service provision data that complemented information collected in other studies conducted at the national/regional level using the WHO-AIMS tool. The bottom-up approach applied in this study would also be useful for the assessment of equity and accessibility and local planning
Psychometric Properties of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire Adapted to Families of Chilean Preschoolers: APQ Psychometric Properties in Chilean Preschoolers
The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a well-known tool to assess empirically identified aspects of positive and negative parenting practices. This study evaluates the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the APQ for its use with parents of children between 2 and 6 years of age in Chile. The participants were 557 parents of children aged 2 to 6 years. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that the best fit was obtained by a fou…
Significados de la reinserción social en funcionarios de un centro de cumplimiento penitenciario
La reinserción social (RS) de personas que infringen la ley es el objetivo primordial de los programas de intervención en los recintos penitenciarios en Chile. La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo conocer el significado que le dan los funcionarios de un Centro de Cumplimiento Penitenciario a la reinserción social y sus implicancias en las prácticas relacionales. Se realizaron entrevistas semi-estructuradas a 15 miembros del personal: unif…
Standardization of the MaristÁN scale to measure needs in people with schizophrenia and related psychoses
OBJECTIVE: Existing measures of needs in severe mental illness have been developed mainly from professionals' viewpoints and are Eurocentric. Our aim was to standardize a measure of the needs of people with schizophrenia across several cultures and based on users' own viewpoints. METHOD: An instrument to measure needs, based on qualitative data on users', carers' and professionals' views, was tested in 164 people with schizophrenia or related psy…
Comparative study of mental health services availability and use in Chile and Spain
There is an enormous interest about improving international comparisons to provide relevant information for policy and planning in mental health. Most of the available information is provided at the macro-level (countries or regions). However, information gathered at the meso-level may diverge from data aggregated at higher territorial levels
Psychometric Properties of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire Adapted to Families of Chilean Preschoolers: APQ Psychometric Properties in Chilean Preschoolers
The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a well-known tool to assess empirically identified aspects of positive and negative parenting practices. This study evaluates the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the APQ for its use with parents of children between 2 and 6 years of age in Chile. The participants were 557 parents of children aged 2 to 6 years. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that the best fit was obtained by a fou…
Comparative study of mental health services availability and use in Chile and Spain
There is an enormous interest about improving international comparisons to provide relevant information for policy and planning in mental health. Most of the available information is provided at the macro-level (countries or regions). However, information gathered at the meso-level may diverge from data aggregated at higher territorial levels
Standardization of the MaristÁN scale to measure needs in people with schizophrenia and related psychoses
OBJECTIVE: Existing measures of needs in severe mental illness have been developed mainly from professionals' viewpoints and are Eurocentric. Our aim was to standardize a measure of the needs of people with schizophrenia across several cultures and based on users' own viewpoints. METHOD: An instrument to measure needs, based on qualitative data on users', carers' and professionals' views, was tested in 164 people with schizophrenia or related psy…
Significados de la reinserción social en funcionarios de un centro de cumplimiento penitenciario
La reinserción social (RS) de personas que infringen la ley es el objetivo primordial de los programas de intervención en los recintos penitenciarios en Chile. La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo conocer el significado que le dan los funcionarios de un Centro de Cumplimiento Penitenciario a la reinserción social y sus implicancias en las prácticas relacionales. Se realizaron entrevistas semi-estructuradas a 15 miembros del personal: unif…
Psychometric Properties of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire Adapted to Families of Chilean Preschoolers: APQ Psychometric Properties in Chilean Preschoolers
The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a well-known tool to assess empirically identified aspects of positive and negative parenting practices. This study evaluates the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the APQ for its use with parents of children between 2 and 6 years of age in Chile. The participants were 557 parents of children aged 2 to 6 years. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that the best fit was obtained by a fou…
Integrated mapping of local mental health systems in Central Chile
This survey of local MH service provision in small catchment areas using the DESDE-LTC tool provided MH service provision data that complemented information collected in other studies conducted at the national/regional level using the WHO-AIMS tool. The bottom-up approach applied in this study would also be useful for the assessment of equity and accessibility and local planning
An Integrative Program to Reduce Stigma in Primary Healthcare Workers Toward People With Diagnosis of Severe Mental Disorders: A Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Background: People with severe mental disorders (SMDs) have higher disease and death rates than the general population. Stigma (negative attitudes and perceptions) contributes to limited access to health services and a lower quality of medical assistance in this population, and it is manifested as negative attitudes, social distance, and discrimination toward this social group. For these reasons, healthcare workers are a priority group for anti-s…
Atención en salud mental de las personas con diagnóstico psiquiátrico grave y su recuperación
Aspectos de la atención a personas con diagnóstico de trastorno mental grave (TMG), particularmente el buen trato y la estigmatización, influirían en su recuperación. La investigación, un estudio cualitativo descriptivo y transversal, buscó analizar la percepción sobre la atención en salud mental de personas con TMG y las posibilidades de recuperación que ésta les brinda. Se tomó una muestra por conveniencia de 16 personas diagnosticadas con esqu…
Mental disorders in the media: A retrospective study of newspaper coverage in the Chilean Press
BACKGROUND: The mass media are relevant in shaping the population's attitudes towards mental disorders. In low- and middle-income countries there is little information about the portrayal of people with mental disorders in the mass media. AIM: The general objective of the study was to assess the tone and content of Chilean newspaper articles about mental disorder from 2000 to 2019. METHOD: The digital editions of four national circulation Chilean…
Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives on Mental Illness and Substance Use Stigma
Systematic Review of Explanatory Models of Internalized Stigma in People Diagnosed with a Mental Disorder
Stigmatization of people diagnosed with a mental disorder in secondary mental health centers in Chile: An ethnographic study
To understand how stigmatization of people diagnosed with a mental disorder occurs in secondary mental healthcare staff in mental healthcare centers in Chile was the objective of the study. A descriptive qualitative and interpretative design with an ethnographic approach was used. Participants' observations, ethnographic, and semi‐structured interviews were conducted with professionals at three secondary mental health centers. Qualitative descrip…
Psychometric properties of the attitudes scale of health care professionals’ toward people with a diagnosis of mental illness (Eaps-TM)
Internalized stigma and self-stigma in people diagnosed with a mental disorder. One concept or two? A scoping review
BACKGROUND: In the literature on stigma, authors often use self-stigma or internalized stigma interchangeably to refer to this type of stigma. This results in a lack of conceptual clarity with negative repercussions for measurement and intervention. AIMS: To identify how internalized stigma and self-stigma are conceptualized in people diagnosed with a mental disorder and establish similarities and differences between both concepts. METHOD: A scop…
Interventions to reduce the stigma of mental health at work: A narrative review
Stigma toward people with mental disorders in mental healthcare in Chile
OBJECTIVE: This research aimed to determine the stigma toward people with mental illness among mental health personnel and identify individual, professional, and contextual predictors. METHODS: A descriptive, cross-sectional, and correlational design was used. The sample consisted of 218 mental health personnel working in Outpatient Psychiatric Units belonging to hospitals and Community Mental Health Centers in Chile. Stigma was evaluated using a…
Development and Psychometric Properties of Associative Stigma in Mental Healthcare Providers Scale (ESA-MHP)
Mental Health Crisis in Adolescents and Young People? The Role of Social Psychiatrization
Concern about the apparent increase in mental health problems among adolescents and young people has intensified considerably in recent years, with it being common nowadays to refer to a "mental health crisis" in this age group. Available epidemiological studies confirm an increase in internalized behaviors within this population. This article proposes that the sociocultural process of "social psychiatrization" in contemporary society is an indis…
Experiences of stigma and discrimination and their relationship with internalized stigma in individuals diagnosed with severe mental disorders in Gran Concepción, Chile
This qualitative study explored the relationship between experiences of stigma and discrimination, and internalized stigma in people with severe mental disorders residing in Gran Concepción, Chile. Twelve participants were selected from a secondary care health center through a maximum variation sampling. Data were collected using semi-structured in-depth interviews, followed by reflective thematic analysis. Responses addressed four themes: 1) per…
Âmbito e desafios do modelo comunitário em saúde mental
A implementação de modelos de saúde mental baseados na comunidade na América Latina, e particularmente no Chile, tem ganhado crescente relevância nas últimas décadas. Este estudo teve como objetivo explorar o alcance e os desafios associados à implementação do modelo de saúde mental baseado na comunidade no Chile, a partir da perspectiva de profissionais que atuam em serviços de atenção secundária à saúde e de gestores de saúde mental. A pesquisa…
Alcances y desafíos del modelo comunitario en salud mental
La implementación de modelos comunitarios de salud mental en América Latina y en particular en Chile, ha cobrado una relevancia creciente en las últimas décadas. Este estudio se propuso explorar los alcances y desafíos asociados a la implementación del modelo comunitario de salud mental en Chile, desde la perspectiva de profesionales que laboran en dispositivos de nivel secundario y gestores de salud mental. La investigación, de carácter cualitat…
Multicomponent intervention to reduce internalized stigma in people with a diagnosis of severe mental disorder: A mixed pilot trial
A social determination framework for mental health
BACKGROUND: Mainstream global mental health continues to privilege individual-level risk factors and biomedical approaches and treatments while sidelining the structural forces that shape mental distress. Despite calls for more socially embedded and decolonial approaches, policy and research too often neglect how structural phenomena such as globalization, colonialism, and neoliberal reforms directly drive mental health inequities. MAIN BODY: Dra…
Stigma and Relationship and Sexual Life in People with Severe Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review
Mental health (18 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (17 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (7 works) · Family Caregiving in Mental Illness (6 works) · Health care (6 works)