"Skills for Resilience in Farming"; an evidence-based, theory driven educational intervention to increase mental health literacy and help-seeking intentions among Irish farmers.

ABSTRACT: While mental health literacy is an important component to successful help-seeking, rural populations often face gaps in both knowledge and service provision. Informed by the Theory of Planned Behaviour and Self-Efficacy Theory, we designed the 'Skills for Resilience' as a brief, once-off, community-based educational intervention to increase Irish farmers' mental health literacy and help-seeking intentions. We adopted a quasi-experimental between (group: intervention and control) and within-group design (time: baseline [T1], immediately post-intervention [T2], and ≥ 1 month post-intervention [T3]). A total of 72 participants (intervention n = 37; control n = 35) were recruited from knowledge-sharing discussion groups. Although recruitment was also open to women, all discussion groups consis

SUBMITTER: O'Connor S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12488010 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature