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Participants Two hundred and sixty adults (78.8% females) aged from 18 to 67 years (M = 31.18, SD = 11.43) participated in the present study [...] Most of the participants (65.8%) lived in Australia or New Zealand, 19.6% in Europe, 11.9% in North America, and the remainder in other areas (2.7%). [...]

Intervention Participants were randomly allocated to one of two intervention groups [...] In the educational intervention group, participants (mean age = 31.82 years, SD = 11.80) watched an 8-minute video that explained the symptoms and possible causes of schizophrenia, including both psychosocial and biological, and the stigma about schizophrenia. [...] In the control group, participants (mean age = 30.55 years, SD = 11.07) watched a 10- minute video presented by the same host as the educational video explaining the relationship between our emotions, stress, and health. [...]

Procedure [...] Participants were invited to complete the survey via distribution of the survey URL on Facebook. [...] participants answered general demographic questions including, “Do you have any education, work or training in a health-related setting?” Answers to this question determined participants’ membership in either the health background group or the no health background group. Participants then read a vignette describing John and answered the MHLQ (pre-intervention). For the intervention, participants were randomly allocated to either the educational intervention or the control group and again completed the MHLQ (post-intervention). [...]