Attitudes toward mental health help seeking as predictors of future help-seeking behavior and use of mental health treatments

R Mojtabai, S Evans-Lacko, G Schomerus… - Psychiatric …, 2016 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objectives: The study examined the association of attitudes toward mental health help
seeking and beliefs about the effectiveness of treatments with future help-seeking behavior …

Americans' attitudes toward mental health treatment seeking: 1990–2003

R Mojtabai - Psychiatric services, 2007 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: This study examined recent trends in Americans' attitudes toward mental health
treatment seeking and beliefs about the effectiveness of such treatment. Methods: Data on …

Reliability and validity of the attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help scale-short form

JD Elhai, W Schweinle, SM Anderson - Psychiatry research, 2008 - Elsevier
We examined the reliability and validity of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional
Psychological Help Scale-Short Form (ATSPPH-SF), a widely cited measure of mental …

Negative attitudes toward help seeking for mental illness in 2 population—based surveys from the United States and Canada

A Jagdeo, BJ Cox, MB Stein… - The Canadian Journal of …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: To determine the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of negative
attitudes toward help seeking for mental illness among the general population in the United …

[PDF][PDF] A moderator analysis of the relationship between mental health help-seeking attitudes and behaviours among young adults

BE Beatie, DW Stewart, JR Walker - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca
To explore how psychological factors influence mental health help seeking among young
adults, an online questionnaire was administered to 486 participants assessing their mental …

Correlates of a perceived need for mental health assistance and differences between those who do and do not seek help

J Rabinowitz, R Gross, D Feldman - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric …, 1999 - Springer
Background: This study examined prevalence of perceived need for mental health
assistance, characteristics of people with a perceived need, and how persons with a need …

Age, gender, and the underutilization of mental health services: The influence of help-seeking attitudes

CS Mackenzie, WL Gekoski, VJ Knox - Aging and mental health, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The objectives of this study were to explore age and gender differences in attitudes toward
seeking professional psychological help, and to examine whether attitudes negatively …

Changes in attitudes toward seeking mental health services: A 40-year cross-temporal meta-analysis

CS Mackenzie, J Erickson, FP Deane… - Clinical psychology review, 2014 - Elsevier
Although rates of treatment seeking for mental health problems are increasing, this increase
is driven primarily by antidepressant medication use, and a majority of individuals with …

Perceived need and help-seeking in adults with mood, anxiety, or substance use disorders

R Mojtabai, M Olfson, D Mechanic - Archives of general …, 2002 - jamanetwork.com
Background A majority of adults with common mental disorders do not seek professional
help. To better understand why not, we examined the correlates of various stages of help …

A prospective study on structural and attitudinal barriers to professional help-seeking for currently untreated mental health problems in the community

S Tomczyk, S Schmidt, H Muehlan… - The journal of …, 2020 - Springer
To date, little is known about the concurrent impact of structural and attitudinal factors on
help-seeking behaviour for mental health problems. Therefore, this study investigated a …