Trial reportBMC public health2023
The Seeking Mental Health Care model: prediction of help-seeking for depressive symptoms by stigma and mental illness representations.
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- Investigating the effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing on internalized stigma in patients with major depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Do illness beliefs predict uptake of depression treatment after web-based depression screening? A secondary analysis of the DISCOVER RCT.BMJ mental health · 2025Trial
- 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
- Help-seeking patterns for non-suicidal self-injury across borderline symptom profiles in a large sample of university students.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- Social Network Factors Associated with the Intention to Use Digital Mental Health Interventions Among AANHPI Emerging Adults: Application and Integration of the Network Episode Model.Research square · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Intention to Use Digital Mental Health Interventions Among AANHPI Emerging Adults in the United States: Application of the Seeking Mental Health Care Model.Research square · 2026Article
- Availability of psychological therapies and workforce participation of individuals with long-term mental health problems: a retrospective observational study.International journal of mental health systems · 2026Article
- Does Depression and Relationship Distress Predict Longer Couple Therapy Treatment in Naturalistic Settings?Journal of marital and family therapy · 2026Article
- Cognitive-attitudinal factors predict CBT-I enrollment willingness in Chinese sleep clinic patients: a knowledge-attitudes-practices survey.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Managing Mental Health Crises in Indonesian Universities: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Psychologists' Experiences.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2026Article
- Interventions to improve mental health help-seeking attitudes, intentions and behaviors: A systematic review of recent advances.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Associated factors of depression, anxiety, and suicide behavior among men in Switzerland: findings from the Swiss health survey 2022.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Blind spots of psychotherapists? Implicit and explicit mental illness stigma in psychotherapists, psychology students, and laypersons.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Reducing mental health stigma in the workplace: a mixed-method analysis of a quasi-experimental trial and the contextual role of personal values.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Beyond silence: Addressing mental health challenges and hopeful pathways for older adults.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Determinants of depression help-seeking intentions in Xizang, China: leveraging the Andersen model for mental health services utilization improvement.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Boys don't try? Gendered stigma specifically reduces help-seeking for disordered eating in men, but not women.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Navigating mental health issues: exploring cultural causal attribution, stigmatization, and care recommendation behavior in Pakistani adolescents and young adults.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- 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
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Abstract
backgroundOnly about half the people with depression seek professional health care services. To constitute the different predictors and associating variables of health care utilisation, we model the process and aim to test our hypothesised Seeking Mental Health Care Model. The model includes empirical influences on the help-seeking process to predict actual behaviour and incorporates superordinate (stigma, treatment experiences) as well as intermediate attitudinal variables (continuum and causal beliefs, depression literacy and self-efficacy).
methodAll variables are examined in an online study (baseline, three- and six-month follow-up). The sample consisted of adults with depressive symptoms (PHQ-9 sum score ≥ 8), currently not receiving mental health care treatment. To examine the prediction of variables explaining help-seeking behaviour, a path model analysis was carried out (lavaan package, software R).
resultsAltogether, 1368 participants (M
conclusionThe Seeking Mental Health Care Model provides an empirically validated conceptualisation of the help-seeking process of people with untreated depressive symptoms as a comprehensive approach considering internal influences. Implications and open questions are discussed, e.g., regarding differentiated assessment of self-efficacy, usefulness of continuum beliefs and causal beliefs in anti-stigma work, and replication of the model for other mental illnesses.
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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