Katrina Scior, Lisa Richardson, Elizabeth Randell, Michaela Osborne, Harriet Bird, Afia Ali, Eva-Maria Bonin, Adrian Brown, Celia Brown, Christine-Koulla Burke, Lisa Bush, Jason Crabtree, Karuna Davies, Paul Davies, David Gillespie, Andrew Jahoda, Sean Johnson, Richard Hastings, Laura Kerr, Rachel McNamara, Jane Menzies, Harry Roche, Melissa Wright, Kyann Zhang
BACKGROUND: Stigma contributes to the negative social conditions persons with intellectual disabilities are exposed to, and it needs tackling at multiple levels. Standing Up for Myself is a psychosocial group intervention designed to enable individuals with intellectual disabilities to discuss stigmatising encounters in a safe and supportive setting and to increase their self-efficacy in managing and resisting stigma. OBJECTIVES: To adapt Standing Up for Myself to make it suitable as a digital intervention; to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of Digital Standing Up for Myself and online administration of outcome measures in a pilot; to describe usual practice in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic to inform future evaluation...
January 2024: Public Health Research