Prejudice, stigma, and mental health: an integrative review of literature - quantitative findings between the years of 2016 and 2018

The objective of this study is to demonstrate the results of a literary investigation in the form of an integrative review that aims to bring up to date the state of the subject of prejudice and discrimination concerning the field of mental health. The research covered the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. The descriptors prejudice, AND mental, AND health were used in the following search engines: Scielo, Pepscic, PsycINFO, LILACS and MEDLINE, and included, theoretical studies, empirical (quantitative, qualitative or mixed), literature reviews, which resulted in the selection of (N=49) articles for the corpus. Of the selected papers, (n=21) were led by psychiatrists, (n=16) by psychologists, (n=5) by nursing professionals, (n=3) sociologists, and (n=1) work led by a physiotherapist, (n=1) by occupational therapist, and (n=1) by law professional with a second training in international relations. As for the countries that published the most studies, the United States has (n=13) published studies, followed by Brazil (n=10), England (n=9), and Germany with (n=4). In all, 234 authors produced 49 studies, resulting in an average of 4.8 authors per work and an average of 16,30 studies per year.