Predictors of help-seeking behaviour in people with mental health problems: a 3-year prospective community study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The majority of people with mental illness do not seek help at all or only with significant delay. To reduce help-seeking barriers for people with mental illness, it is therefore important to understand factors predicting help-seeking. Thus, we prospectively examined potential predictors of help-seeking behaviour among people with mental health problems (N = 307) over 3 years.

Methods

Of the participants of a 3-year follow-up of a larger community study (response rate: 66.4%), data of 307 (56.6%) persons with any mental health problems (age-at-baseline: 16-40 years) entered a structural equation model of the influence of help-seeking, stigma, help-seeking attitudes, functional impairments, age and sex at baseline on subsequent help-seeking for mental health proble

SUBMITTER: Doll CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8414662 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature