Trial reportPloS one2022
"People say men don't talk, well that's bullshit": A focus group study exploring challenges and opportunities for men's mental health promotion.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Realist review of nature-based interventions for men: understanding the contexts and mechanisms necessary for successful outcomes.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of media-based mental health campaigns on male help-seeking: a systematic review.Health promotion international · 2024Pooled it
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- Missing men - why health promotion leaves them behind and how to bring them on board: results of a rapid qualitative evidence synthesis.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Home as a Place of Refuge, Despair, and Self-Care for Men Living With Mental Health Challenges.Qualitative health research · 2026Article
- Evaluating the Push-Up Challenge: Impacts on Mental Health, Help-Seeking and Exercise Behaviours in Australia.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Participant perceptions of HAT TRICK™ Cricket: a culturally-adapted intervention for men with South Asian backgrounds in Australia.Health promotion international · 2026Article
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- Factors influencing the mental health help-seeking behaviours of construction workers in Ireland: perspectives from managers.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Designing an instrument for police officers' life balance and sustainable lifestyle.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2025Article
- "You Have to Make It Normal, That's What We Do": Construction Managers' Experiences of Help-Offering.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- A mixed methods longitudinal case study exploring the impact of a community-based, brief psychological intervention for men experiencing suicidal crisis.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- "It's important to manage our stress": Mental health advice in the Australian print news media during the COVID-19 pandemic.SSM. Mental health · 2023Article
- Supporting Clinical Competencies in Men's Mental Health Using the Men in Mind Practitioner Training Program: User Experience Study.JMIR medical education · 2023Article
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- Humanistic nursing tailored to the needs of young men with cancer.Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique · 2023Article
- A qualitative assessment of mental health literacy and help-seeking behaviors among male college students.Discover mental health · 2022Article
- Male involvement in randomised trials testing psychotherapy or behavioural interventions for depression: a scoping review.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Voluntary male mentors' lived experience of social engagement with men in their community.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
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Abstract
Men's mental health promotion presents unique challenges including gender-related barriers and stigmas, which demand novel approaches to prevention, treatment, and management. The aim of this study was to explore men's perceptions of mental health and preferences for mental health promotion. Seven focus groups (N = 59) were conducted in Sydney, Australia, including 5 groups of men (M = 50.65, SD = 13.75 years) and 2 groups of stakeholders who had frontline experience working with men (e.g., men's groups, health clubs, mental health advocates). Data were analysed using thematic analysis and interpreted using a gender relations approach to explore connections between gender roles, relations and identities, and men's mental health. Three overarching themes were identified; (1) Roles, identities, and the conceptualisation and concealment of mental health challenges, revealing challenges to mental health promotion related to perceptions of men's restrictive emotionality and emotional awareness as well as difficulties with conceptualising the internalised experiences of mental health, (2) Constraining social contexts of stigma and gender relations, identifying how social context and the policing of gender roles often obscured opportunities for discussing mental health and help-seeking behaviour, (3) Anchoring mental health promotion to acceptable lifestyle practices, highlighting potential remedies included leveraging men's social practices related to reciprocity, normalising mental health promotion relative to other behaviours, and embedding mental health promotion within acceptable masculine practices. Discussed are directions for men's community-based mental health promotion and opportunities for how masculinities may be negotiated and expanded to embody mental health promoting values.
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