The research study I found this week is from the book called, “Changes in Mental Illness Stigma in California During the Statewide Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Initiative.” This book was written by a various of authors including, Rebecca Collins, Eunice Wong, Elizabeth Roth, Jennifer Cerully, and Joyce Marks.

Collins, Rebecca L., Eunice C. Wong, Elizabeth Roth, Jennifer L. Cerully, and Joyce S. Marks. “Changes in Mental Illness Stigma in California During the Statewide Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Initiative.” In Changes in Mental Illness Stigma in California During the Statewide Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Initiative, 1-10. RAND Corporation, 2015. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.redlands.edu/stable/10.7249/j.ctt15sk8gd.1.

A big part in change toward the mentally ill in general is changing the stigma around it. This book focuses on taking a small step toward change by trying to implement initiatives in California toward mental illness. This study included finding about what Californians knew about ways to help the mentally ill and to further inform them to hopefully make mentally ill people more socially accepted in society instead of outcasted. The research question in this piece is “How many Californians know about mentally ill programs to help change their stigmas?” The type of data needed for this project is shallow opinions and attitudes. In order to obtain this type of data they will need to contact a series of surveys – they chose to do phone surveys at random to adults 18 and older. This requires qualitative data analysis because people are sharing their opinions and they need to be interpreted since everyone has different thoughts. I believe this research project was conducted well. They chose a sample at random throughout the entire state and even accounted for different races, which I thought was interesting, but a nice touch.