The Seeking Mental Health Care model: prediction of help-seeking for depressive symptoms by stigma and mental illness representations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Only about half the people with depression seek professional health care services. To constitute the different predictors and associating variables of health care utilisation, we model the process and aim to test our hypothesised Seeking Mental Health Care Model. The model includes empirical influences on the help-seeking process to predict actual behaviour and incorporates superordinate (stigma, treatment experiences) as well as intermediate attitudinal variables (continuum and causal beliefs, depression literacy and self-efficacy).

Method

All variables are examined in an online study (baseline, three- and six-month follow-up). The sample consisted of adults with depressive symptoms (PHQ-9 sum score ≥ 8), currently not receiving mental health care treatment. To e

SUBMITTER: McLaren T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831378 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature