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BMC Health Services Research BioMed Central Research article Open Access 250 labels used to stigmatise people with mental illness 1 2 3 2 Diana Rose , Graham Thornicroft* , Vanessa Pinfold and Aliya Kassam Address: 1Service User Research Enterprise, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK, 2Section of Community Mental Health Health Service and Population Research Department Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK and 3Rethink severe mental illness, Royal London House, Finsbury Square, London, UK Email: Diana Rose - d.rose@iop.kcl.ac.uk; Graham Thornicroft* - g.thornicroft@iop.kcl.ac.uk; Vanessa Pinfold - vanessa.pinfold@; Aliya Kassam - aliya.kassam@iop.kcl.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 28 June 2007 Received: 16 January 2007 Accepted: 28 June 2007 BMC Health Services Research 2007, 7:97 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-7-97 This article is available from: /1472-6963/7/97 © 2007 Rose et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The stigma against people with mental illness is a major barrier to help-seeking in young people for mental health problems. The objective of this study was