ArticlePsychiatry research2021
Help-seeking intentions in the U.S. population during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining the role of COVID-19 financial hardship, suicide risk, and stigma.
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- Assets and depression in U.S. adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Pooled it
- The help-seeking process and predictors of mental health care use among individuals with depressive symptoms: a machine learning approach.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Impact of alternative terminology for depression on help-seeking intention: A randomized online trial.Journal of clinical psychology · 2023Trial
- Experience of financial hardship and depression: a longitudinal population-based multi-state analysis.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Article
- Factors influencing suicidal ideations among late adolescents in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study from the Korea community health survey.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Mediating Role of Hesitancy in the Associations Between Mental Disorders and Social Support Seeking During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The role of perceived social norms in non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality: A systematic scoping review.PloS one · 2023Article
- Mining voices from self-expressed messages on social-media: Diagnostics of mental distress during COVID-19.Decision support systems · 2022Article
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Abstract
The primary goal of this study was to increase understanding of help-seeking intentions in the U.S. population during the COVID-19 pandemic and to examine influencing factors such as COVID-19 financial hardship, suicide risk, and stigma in order to contribute to effective theory-based help-seeking and suicide prevention campaigns. In a representative sample of U.S. adults (N = 5,010), this research tested whether COVID-19 financial hardship was associated with higher levels of depression and suicidal ideation (supported), and whether the reasoned action framework could usefully predict help-seeking intentions in this context (supported). The reasoned action framework explained 36% of the variance in help-seeking intentions in the U.S. population and identified injunctive norm (social support) as primary determinant of intention. Neither suicidal ideation, COVID-19 financial hardship, or self-stigma of seeking help influenced determinants of help-seeking. Future research should test injunctive norm as causal predictor of help-seeking in the U.S. population to usefully inform effective help-seeking campaigns, particularly among those who have experienced COVID-19 financial hardship. Additionally, effective dissemination strategies for help-seeking campaigns should be tested and identified, such as broader targeted approaches as well as intentional mis-targeting techniques.
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