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ArticleEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2023

Influence of mental health literacy on help-seeking behaviour for mental health problems in the Swiss young adult community: a cohort and longitudinal case-control study.

N Osman, C Michel, B G Schimmelmann, L Schilbach, E Meisenzahl, F Schultze-Lutter

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Article in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

N OsmanDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy/LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Bergische Landstraße 2, 40629, Düsseldorf, Germany. naweed.osman@lvr.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9761-0099
C MichelUniversity Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
B G SchimmelmannUniversity Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
L SchilbachDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy/LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Bergische Landstraße 2, 40629, Düsseldorf, Germany.
E MeisenzahlDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy/LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Bergische Landstraße 2, 40629, Düsseldorf, Germany.
F Schultze-LutterDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy/LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Bergische Landstraße 2, 40629, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEUniversity of Bern · CH

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 135381Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 155951
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Poor knowledge about mental health disorders and their treatment likely contributes to the large treatment gap reported for mental health problems. Therefore, we studied the association between mental health literacy (MHL) and active help-seeking in a community sample. Participants were recruited from an add-on questionnaire study to the 'Bern Epidemiological At-Risk' (BEAR) study on 16-40-year-old community subjects of the Swiss canton Bern. At baseline, data of N = 1504, and at 3-year follow-up, data of N = 535 were available. Based on an unlabelled case vignette (on depression or schizophrenia), MHL was assessed by the questionnaire of Angermeyer and colleagues. Cross-sectional and longitudinal baseline predictors of help-seeking were analysed using path analyses. Additionally, sensitivity analyses of the prospective model were computed for sex, vignette, and baseline mental health problems/disorders. Cross-sectionally, help-seeking was associated with non-endorsement of biogenetic causal explanations, presence of mental health problems/disorders, help-seeking before baseline, poorer functioning, and lower health satisfaction. The prospective model was similar; yet, help-seeking at follow-up was associated with endorsements of the causal explanation 'biogenetics' and, additionally, 'childhood trauma' but not the presence of baseline mental health problems/disorders. Sensitivity analyses revealed a significant impact on sex, vignette, and mental health problems/disorders. For example, actual functional problems were predictive in males, while health satisfaction was predictive in females. Our findings indicate that future studies on drivers of help-seeking should assess very large community samples with case vignettes on different mental disorders to examine appropriate subgroups and their likely interaction to address group-specific factors in awareness campaigns.

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Health LiteracyHelp-Seeking BehaviorMental DisordersAdolescentAdultCase-Control StudiesCross-Sectional StudiesDepressionFemaleHumansMaleMental HealthPatient Acceptance of Health CareSwitzerlandYoung AdultActive help-seeking behaviourLongitudinal community studyMental health literacyMental health problems/disorders

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