Osman, N.; Michel, C.; Schimmelmann, B. G.; Schilbach, L.; Meisenzahl, E.; Schultze-Lutter, F. (2023). 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. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 273(3), pp. 649-662. Springer 10.1007/s00406-022-01483-9
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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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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > University Psychiatric Services > University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy > Research Division 04 Faculty of Medicine > University Psychiatric Services > University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy |
UniBE Contributor: |
Michel, Chantal, Schimmelmann, Benno Karl Edgar, Schultze-Lutter, Frauke |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
0940-1334 |
Publisher: |
Springer |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Chantal Michel |
Date Deposited: |
13 Sep 2022 10:01 |
Last Modified: |
11 Apr 2023 00:12 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1007/s00406-022-01483-9 |
PubMed ID: |
36088495 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/172831 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/172831 |
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