Paula Shin

IM-6/12AP
4/8/19
Data and Project Timeline
Project Summary: To survey fellow students about how they perceive mental illnesses portrayed
in popular tv shows, movies, or the news, and to see how it affects their opinions. This survey
will be dispersed to underclassmen students at River Hill. The information will then be
incorporated into the mental health campaign and to educate students on the negative portrayals
of mental illnesses. The intended audience of this survey is adolescents aged 13-18 years old.

Data Collection: This method of data collection will be a questionnaire/survey. Questions range
from open-ended ones, asking about demographics, indicating personal choices, personal
opinions, and a multiple choice question gauging how much knowledge participants understand.

Gathered citations from vetted surveys:

Hanley, Erika, "Perception of Mental Illness Based Upon its Portrayal in Film" (2015). HIM
1990-2015. 609
Borinstein, Andrew B. “Public Attitudes Toward Persons With Mental Illness.” Health
Affairs, vol. 11, no. 3, Jan. 1992, pp. 186–96. healthaffairs.org (Atypon),
doi:10.1377/hlthaff.11.3.186.
“Attitudes to Mental Illness 2014 Research Report.” The British Library,
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/attitudes-to-mental-illness-2014-research-report.

Plan for the future

[✓] Researched vetted surveys to use as survey tools
[✓] Finalized questions to use in survey
[✓] Meet with Sasser to confirm questions used in survey
[✓] Create survey on google forms
[] Get survey approved
[] Email underclassmen English teachers around the school to post survey and ask teachers to
hand out surveys, deadline will be by 4/5
[] Create graphs/Enter data into spreadsheet
[] Use information to create an additional part to mental health campaign (flyer, infographic)