Trial reportBMC public health2021
How can the utilisation of help for mental disorders be improved? A quasi-experimental online study on the changeability of stigmatising attitudes and intermediate variables in the process of utilisation.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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
- The Seeking Mental Health Care model: prediction of help-seeking for depressive symptoms by stigma and mental illness representations.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- A "Self-Milieux" perspective on help-seeking: examining the impact of a person's sociocultural background on help-seeking in people with untreated depressive symptoms.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Psychometric validation of the continuum beliefs of mental illness scale (CB-MIS) and its associations with stigma.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Distributive randomization: a pragmatic fractional factorial design to screen or evaluate multiple simultaneous interventions in a clinical trial.BMC medical research methodology · 2024Article
- The effects of causal and self-efficacy beliefs on help-seeking for people with depressive complaints: a quasi-experimental online study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Application of the unified protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of comorbid emotional disorders in patients with ultra-high risk of developing psychosis: A randomized trial study protocol.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundEpidemiological studies show that even in highly developed countries many people with depression do not seek help for their mental health issues, despite promising prevention approaches encouraging people to seek help and reduce self-stigma. Therefore, an anti-stigma intervention study to support help-seeking behaviour will be developed on the basis of the newly explicated "Seeking Mental Health Care Model".
methodsA quasi-experimental online study will be carried out to assess the effect of different intervention variables relevant for the help-seeking process. The study is conceived as a fractional factorial design. Participants will be screened for depressive complaints (PHQ-9 sum score ≥ 8) and current psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment. After baseline assessment the participants will be randomly allocated into one of the 24 study groups receiving different combinations of the vignette-based intervention aiming to reduce stigma and support help-seeking. Next, relevant outcome measures will be administered a second time. In a 3- and 6-month follow-up help-seeking behaviour will be measured. Gamified elements and avatar-choice techniques will be used to heighten study immersion and adherence. DISCUSSION: On the basis of the project results, promising research and intervention perspectives can be developed. Results, firstly, allow for a more detailed empirical investigation and conceptualisation of the stages of mental health care utilisation, as well as an examination of theoretical approaches to stigmatisation. Secondly, our online study could provide insights for an evidence-based design and evaluation of online interventions for people with a mental illness.
trial registrationGerman Clinical Trials Register: DRKS00023557 . Registered 11 December 2020. World Health Organization, Universal Trial Number: U1111-1264-9954. Registered 16 February 2021.
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