Stigma-and non-stigma-related treatment barriers to mental healthcare reported by service users and caregivers

L Dockery, D Jeffery, O Schauman, P Williams… - Psychiatry …, 2015 - Elsevier
Delayed treatment seeking for people experiencing symptoms of mental illness is common
despite available mental healthcare. Poor outcomes are associated with untreated mental …

College students' barriers to seeking mental health counseling: Scale development and psychometric evaluation.

M Shea, YJ Wong, KK Nguyen… - Journal of counseling …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
This article reports the development and psychometric properties of the 27-item Barriers to
Seeking Mental Health Counseling (BMHC) scale, which assesses perceived help-seeking …

Stigma resistance is positively associated with psychiatric and psychosocial outcomes: A meta-analysis

RL Firmin, L Luther, PH Lysaker, KS Minor… - Schizophrenia …, 2016 - Elsevier
To better understand how stigma resistance impacts functioning-related domains, we
examined mean effect sizes between stigma resistance and: 1) symptoms (overall, positive …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment gap and help-seeking for postpartum depression in a rural African setting

T Azale, A Fekadu, C Hanlon - BMC psychiatry, 2016 - Springer
Background Postpartum depression (PPD) affects more than one in ten women and is
associated with adverse consequences for mother, child and family. Integrating mental …

Student-athletes' mental health help-seeking experiences: A mixed methodological approach

MD Bird, GM Chow, BT Cooper - Journal of College Student …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated six National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I student-
athletes' experiences of seeking help for a mental health concern using the Health Belief …

[HTML][HTML] Barriers and facilitators of help-seeking among unemployed persons with mental health problems: a qualitative study

T Staiger, T Waldmann, N Rüsch, S Krumm - BMC health services …, 2017 - Springer
Background Unemployed people with mental health problems often do not use mental
health services and therefore do not benefit from available therapies. As unemployed …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing stigma among healthcare providers to improve mental health services (RESHAPE): protocol for a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial of a stigma …

BA Kohrt, MJD Jordans, EL Turner, KJ Sikkema… - Pilot and Feasibility …, 2018 - Springer
Background Non-specialist healthcare providers, including primary and community
healthcare workers, in low-and middle-income countries can effectively treat mental illness …

Mental health underutilization by Palestinian-Arabs in Israel: Stigma-related, attitudinal, and instrumental barriers

F Abo-Rass, S Abu-Kaf, D Matzri… - … Journal of Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Many studies show that members of minority groups underutilize mental health
services and report more barriers to such utilization than majority groups. However, very little …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying barriers to mental health help-seeking in French university students during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Theurel, A Witt - Creative Education, 2022 - scirp.org
The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted university student's mental health, a
population already known to be vulnerable for developing mental disorders and to …

Key lessons learned from the INDIGO global network on mental health related stigma and discrimination

G Thornicroft, I Bakolis, S Evans‐Lacko… - World …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The WPA Open the Doors programme was initiated by one of us (NS) in 1999 and included
both action and research components in 23 countries worldwide. This work led to the …