Help-seeking behaviors among Chinese people with mental disorders: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Failure to seek treatment for mental health disorders is a serious public health concern. Unfortunately, there is little insight into help-seeking and its associated factors in China which has undergone rapid economic development in the past 30 years and has an increasing prevalence of mental disorder. Therefore, this study aimed to (1) investigate help-seeking rates in healthcare and non-healthcare settings and (2) investigate the correlates of help-seeking behavior in a large Chinese survey. METHODS:Data came from the Tianjin Mental Health Survey (TJMHS), a representative sample of adult community residents in the Chinese municipality of Tianjin (n = 11,748). Of these, 1759 individuals had ≥1 axis-I diagnosis according to the Diagnostic and Statistical manual- fourth edition (

SUBMITTER: Yin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6883558 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature