Value-related attitudes towards mental health problems and help-seeking barriers: a sequential mixed-methods design investigating participants with reported depressive episodes in rural Northern Germany with and without treatment experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Seeking help for severe depressive symptoms remains a major obstacle for particular groups within the general population. Value-related attitudes might contribute to this treatment gap, particularly in rural regions with a low density of psychiatric-psychotherapeutic services. We aimed to investigate narratives of socialization, value systems, and barriers of help-seeking to better understand social milieus at increased risk for underuse of psychiatric-psychotherapeutic services in a rural area in East Germany. This could complement the explanatory power of classical socio-demographic determinants and provide guidance for possible interventions.

Method

Based on results of an analysis of a population-based German cohort study (SHIP-TREND-1), 20 individual semi-stru

SUBMITTER: Valerius K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10885433 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature