Lay Judgments of Mental Health Treatment Options: The Mind Versus Body Problem.

ABSTRACT: Background: Past research shows that people believe psychologically caused mental disorders are helped by different treatments than biologically caused mental disorders. However, it is unknown how people think about treatment when limited information is known to identify the disorder. Objective: Our objective was to explore how laypeople judged the helpfulness of treatments when a limited set of mental health symptoms is presented. Method: Across four experiments, Mechanical Turk and college undergraduate participants (N = 331) read descriptions displaying sets of three mental health symptoms and rated how helpful pharmaceuticals, counseling, or alternative medicine would be on a 0 (not at all helpful) to 100 (completely helpful) scale. We measured judgments for percei

SUBMITTER: Marsh JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6124937 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature