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ArticleThe journal of behavioral health services & research2020

A Prospective Study on Structural and Attitudinal Barriers to Professional Help-Seeking for Currently Untreated Mental Health Problems in the Community.

Samuel Tomczyk, S Schmidt, H Muehlan, S Stolzenburg, G Schomerus

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Article in The journal of behavioral health services & research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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Samuel TomczykInstitute of Psychology, Department Health and Prevention, University of Greifswald, Robert-Blum-Straße 13, 17487, Greifswald, Germany. samuel.tomczyk@uni-greifswald.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2846-5489
S SchmidtInstitute of Psychology, Department Health and Prevention, University of Greifswald, Robert-Blum-Straße 13, 17487, Greifswald, Germany.
H MuehlanInstitute of Psychology, Department Health and Prevention, University of Greifswald, Robert-Blum-Straße 13, 17487, Greifswald, Germany.
S StolzenburgDepartment of Psychiatry, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
G SchomerusUniversity of Leipzig, Medical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Leipzig, Germany.

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Abstract

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 longitudinal German community sample of adults with currently untreated mental health problems (N = 188, mean age = 50.34, 70.7% female) regarding perceived structural (e.g. accessibility) as well as attitudinal barriers (e.g. anticipated self-stigma) to help-seeking intentions and behaviour. Overall, perceived accessibility, spatial and temporal distance from mental health services predicted help-seeking. Among attitudinal factors, treatment efficacy beliefs were strongly connected to help-seeking. In addition, among people who knew where to find a psychologist or psychotherapist, anticipated self-stigma emerged as a significant barrier to help-seeking. Therefore, creating positive treatment expectancies and dismantling erroneous perceptions of structural aspects of mental health services hold promise to further close the gap in mental health care utilisation. However, the role of anticipated self-stigma within the help-seeking process requires further research.

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Attitude to HealthHelp-Seeking BehaviorAdultAgedFemaleGermanyHealth Services AccessibilityHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMental DisordersMental HealthMiddle AgedProspective StudiesSocial Stigma

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