The rise in acceptance of mental health professionals: help-seeking recommendations of the German public 1990-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

We will first examine whether seeking help for depression and schizophrenia from mental health professionals is nowadays more accepted among the German public than it used to be 30 years ago. Next, we will explore whether changes in help-seeking preferences between 1990 and 2020 are specific to mental health professions or are part of changes in attitudes to professional help-seeking in general. Finally, we will study whether a temporal relationship does exist between the advent of awareness-raising and anti-stigma campaigns after the turn of the millennium and changes in the acceptance of mental health care.

Methods

In 1990 (n = 2044), 2001 (n = 4005), 2011 (n = 1984) and 2020 (n = 2449) methodologically identical population-based surveys we

SUBMITTER: Angermeyer MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9971855 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature