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ArticleBMC psychiatry2015

Mental health literacy measures evaluating knowledge, attitudes and help-seeking: a scoping review.

Yifeng Wei, Patrick J McGrath, Jill Hayden, Stan Kutcher

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readScoping Review
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Article in BMC psychiatry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03633916 (Effects of a Classroom-based Sensitization Intervention on Demand for Mental Health Care Among School-going Adolescents in New Delhi, India), which is not on this map. Cited by 170 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT03633916 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

Effects of a Classroom-based Sensitization Intervention on Demand for Mental Health Care Among School-going Adolescents in New Delhi, India: Study Protocol for a Stepped-wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorSangathRan2018 to 2018Enrolled835ConditionsHelp-Seeking BehaviorArmsClassroom sensitization session, School-level sensitization activities
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

170 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 478 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yifeng WeiSun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health team, IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University, 5850 University Ave., P.O Box 9700, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 6R8, Canada. Yifeng.wei@iwk.nshealth.ca.
Patrick J McGrathIWK Health Centre, Nova Scotia Health Authority and Dalhousie University, 5850 University Ave., P.O Box 9700, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 6R8, Canada. Patrick.mcgrath@iwk.nshealth.ca.
Jill HaydenCentre for Clinical Research, Dalhousie University, Room 403, 5790 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H IV7, Canada. jhayden@dal.ca.
Stan KutcherSun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health team, IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University, 5850 University Ave., P.O Box 9700, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 6R8, Canada. Stanley.kutcher@iwk.nshealth.ca.
Dalhousie University · CAIzaak Walton Killam Health Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMental health literacy has received increasing attention as a useful strategy to promote early identification of mental disorders, reduce stigma and enhance help-seeking behaviors. However, despite the abundance of research on mental health literacy interventions, there is the absence of evaluations of current available mental health literacy measures and related psychometrics. We conducted a scoping review to bridge the gap.

methodsWe searched PubMed, PsycINFO, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, and ERIC for relevant studies. We only focused on quantitative studies and English publications, however, we didn't limit study participants, locations, or publication dates. We excluded non-English studies, and did not check the grey literature (non peer-reviewed publications or documents of any type) and therefore may have missed some eligible measures.

resultsWe located 401 studies that include 69 knowledge measures (14 validated), 111 stigma measures (65 validated), and 35 help-seeking related measures (10 validated). Knowledge measures mainly investigated the ability of illness identification, and factual knowledge of mental disorders such as terminology, etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, and consequences. Stigma measures include those focused on stigma against mental illness or the mentally ill; self-stigma ; experienced stigma; and stigma against mental health treatment and help-seeking. Help-seeking measures included those of help-seeking attitudes, intentions to seek help, and actual help-seeking behaviors.

conclusionsOur review provides a compendium of available mental health literacy measures to facilitate applying existing measures or developing new measures. It also provides a solid database for future research on systematically assessing the quality of the included measures.

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth LiteracyAdolescentAdultChildFemaleHumansIntentionMaleMental DisordersMental HealthMiddle AgedPatient Acceptance of Health CarePersons with Psychiatric DisordersPsychotherapySocial Stigma

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