Introduction to Help Seeking

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Utilizing a participatory approach, the 5 × 5 campaign aimed to improve recognition of mental health symptoms, promote help seeking, and provide immediate strategies for self-care for individuals experiencing psychological distress related to the COVID-19 pandemic in low-income, high-risk communities in and around Guatemala City.

Public health campaigning to reduce stigma and promote help seeking in BAME communities is of vital importance to provide the needed support for those silently dealing with psychological problems.

The participants identified severe mental disorders more easily than mood disorders; reported a variety of possible causes of mental disorders; were well aware of available professional help (apart for rehabilitative services); identified significant barriers to mental health help seeking, as Arabs; and reported the internet as a major source of information about mental health problems and their treatment.

Background and Aims: The objectives of the study were (i) cluster analysis of risky behaviors; (ii) determining correlates; and (iii) comparing clusters with regard to the attitude toward mental health help seeking.

This study aims to identify the levels of Epistemic Cognitive Beliefs (ECB) and the behaviour of Academic Help Seeking (AHS) among secondary school students in Jordan and detect the ability of ECB to predict AHS behaviour.

Academic help seeking is a self-regulatory strategy that is closely related to students’ school functioning and successful school outcomes.

Therefore, an important step in improving mental wellbeing and promoting help seeking for mental health is understanding help seeking stigma and its associated factors.

They concluded therefore that teaching mental health was critical in promoting help seeking behaviour in students.

Examples include access to trained clinicians, the expense of treatment, geographical limitations, and personal limitations such as stigma regarding help seeking.

Examples include access to trained clinicians, the expense of treatment, geographical limitations, and personal limitations such as stigma regarding help seeking.

Facilitating early help seeking and rapid diagnosis in primary care and reducing specialised services waiting lists for assessment and treatment could be a form of secondary prevention.

Family and friends are well placed to recognise the signs of depression and encourage early help seeking.

Secondary outcomes were recognition of mental health problems, beliefs about treatment, helping intentions and confidence, personal stigma, quality of support provided to a person outside the workplace, self-reported professional help seeking and psychological distress.

The objective of this study was to compare the responses to persuasive messages encouraging professional help seeking for depression between individuals with and without psychological distress.

Literature on explanatory models of infertility, which influence help seeking behaviour is also scarce.

Religious beliefs influence help seeking, diagnosis, treatment, and outcome of the individuals.

Research indicates that where services do exist, students are reluctant to access them due to perceived high risks and low benefits in MH help seeking.

Present findings could be used to establish a profile of MH help seeking population in relation to this biological disaster, and to further explore QoL and personality in different contexts.

The anonymous author of a recent What Your Patient is Thinking article shares a powerful story of feeling that their self-harm was dismissed and how this affected future help seeking.

This study focused on patients’ perspectives on their mental health burden, the psychosocial walk-in clinic, and future help seeking.

This study investigated the prevalence of suicidal ideation and attitudes toward help seeking among U.

While the researcher investigated the problem, the participants completed an 11-item questionnaire asking about their attitudes toward help seeking for hearing loss.

RESULTS Five main suicide prevention recommendations were made to prevent similar suicides: (1) deploy mobile crisis intervention teams (short-term, high-intensity, home-based treatment) in hospital emergency departments; (2) train primary and specialized mental health care professionals to screen for and manage substance use disorders; and (3) implement public awareness campaigns to encourage help seeking for depression and substance use disorders; (4) access for all, regardless of age, to an effective psychosis treatment program; and (5) provide universal access to a general practitioner, especially for men.

This qualitative study (1) revealed barriers to accessing mental health treatment and (2) provided ways to decrease stigma and encourage help seeking.

Self-strategies that are recommended are adequate rest and sleep, consistent work breaks, help seeking behavior, emotional control and acceptance of limitations of their own competence and healthcare systems.

Conclusions: Given the prevalence of depression and anxiety among college-aged students, continued research into help seeking behaviors and their effects on outcomes like grade average is an essential part of understanding the toll these disorders take.

Outcome It is expected that knowledge and attitude on IPV, conflict resolution skills and likelihood of help seeking behaviour score is greater in intervention group than control group, indicating the effectiveness of the health education module, IPVP.

Besides, confinement also fosters social isolation, which can complicate help seeking behaviour.

The purpose of this study was to examine trends in the overall and sex-specific prevalence of self-reported stress, distress, mental illness, and help seeking behaviours among Canadian post-secondary students over the past several years.

Anonymised 38-item questionnaire on mental health attitudes, perceptions and help seeking behaviours.

Mental health knowledge and help seeking attitude were assessed using six vignettes depicting subtle and obvious symptoms of anxiety disorders, mixed anxiety and depressive disorders, and dementia.

The ecological model of abuse and cultural theory suggest that women’s cultural beliefs and norms play a role in their help seeking attitudes and behavior.

This study investigated the prevalence of suicidal ideation and attitudes toward help seeking among U.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of suicidal ideation (SI) and attitudes regarding help seeking among US physicians relative to the general US working population.

This paper explores how these discourses contribute to the continuation of women abuse and to negative help seeking experiences for women seeking help for abuse.

The study of help seeking experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors typically focus on traditional supports such as mental health and community services.

(3)Perceived treatment benefit is the strongest predictor of help seeking intention.

Perception of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) digunakan untuk mengukur persepsi stigmatisasi dan intensi pencarian bantuan diukur menggunakan Mental Help Seeking Intention Scale (MHSIS).