ArticleInternational journal of mental health nursing2019
Help-seeking experiences of older adults with a diagnosis of moderate depression.
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- Help-seeking in older crime victims: A mixed-methods study in collaboration with the Metropolitan Police Service.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
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- Middle-aged and older people with urgent, unaware, and unmet mental health care needs: Practitioners' viewpoints from outside the formal mental health care system.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2022Article
- Self-management of depression and anxiety amongst frail older adults in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2022Article
- Barriers and facilitators to recognize and discuss depression and anxiety experienced by adults with vision impairment or blindness: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2021Article
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Abstract
Depression is the most prevalent mental illness among older adults. However, help-seeking by older adults is frequently delayed, resulting in longer duration of untreated symptoms, poorer health outcomes, and consequent higher healthcare use. Early help-seeking and access to appropriate support benefits individuals, while providing better outcomes from health systems constrained by limited resources. The aim of this study, which is abstracted from a larger study, was to identify the factors that inhibited and enabled formal help-seeking in older adults with a diagnosis of moderate depression. Corbin and Strauss' approach to grounded theory informed data collection and analysis. Two themes and related subthemes concerning help-seeking barriers and facilitators were abstracted from the data. Help-seeking barriers were attributable to stigma, self-motivation, accessing formal support, ageism, and difficulty obtaining an initial diagnosis. Help-seeking facilitators were accepting personal responsibility, mental health literacy, therapeutic alliances, and informal support. Findings have implications for the role of mental health nurses, who are well-placed to provide support to community-based older adults with depression. More broadly, mental health nurses and other clinicians should seek to reduce help-seeking barriers and implement ways to facilitate help-seeking in this cohort.
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