Perceived need and help-seeking in adults with mood, anxiety, or substance use disorders.

By R. Mojtabai, Mark Olfson, D. Mechanic. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2002

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A meta-analysis towards the establishment of novel treatment for anxiety (2010, background): “Nevertheless, many affected individuals do not receive treatment (5), and mong those who do, many continue to suffer (6,7).”
Barriers to Mental Health Treatment: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) (2010, background): “Several factors are thought to impede appropriate mental health care seeking, including lack of perceived need for treatment (Mojtabai et al. 2002 ; Edlund et al. 2006 ; Sareen et al. 2007), stigma (van Voorhees et al.”
Mental Health Smartphone Apps: Review and Evidence-Based Recommendations for Future Developments (2016, positive): “Innovative solutions to self-management of mental health issues are particularly valuable, given that only a small fraction of people suffering from mood or anxiety problems seek professional help [12].”
Barriers to Mental Health Treatment: Results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys (2013, background): “There is reason to believe that perceived need is not uniform across diagnoses (Mojtabai et al. 2002).”
Help-Seeking and Access to Mental Health Care in a University Student Population (2007, result): “Both of these findings are consistent with previous research.(45,46) Finally, the most commonly reported reasons for not receiving services included lack of a perceived need, the belief that stress is normal in school, and a lack of time— explanations supported by prior research on student populatio”
Failure and delay in initial treatment contact after first onset of mental disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. (2005, result): “Consistent with the finding regarding substance disorders, previous research has shown that people with substance disorders often do not perceive a need for treatment, actively resist treatment, and do not seek treatment until their disorders have become highly debilitating.(9,57,58) The low proport”
Delay and failure in treatment seeking after first onset of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative. (2007, background): “Failure to seek help also appears to be greatest for conditions with low perceived needs for treatment, such as substance use disorders, for which over half of lifetime cases failed to make any treatment contact in the majority of countries (13,32).”
Perceived Social Support and the Voluntary, Mixed, or Pressured Use of Mental Health Services (2011, background): “Attitudes toward mental health professionals and about mental illness influence the likelihood of entering treatment (Corrigan 2004; Diala et al. 2000; Mojtabai et al. 2002; Prins et al. 2008; Steele, Dewa, and Lee 2007), so attitudes also are controlled.”