Mental health literacy, attitudes to help seeking, and perceived need as predictors of mental health service use: A longitudinal study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 204, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 321-324

  Bonabi, Herdis ^a   Müller, Mario ^a   Ajdacic Gross, Vladeta ^a   Eisele, Jochen ^a   Rodgers, Stephanie ^a   Seifritz, Erich ^a   Rössler, Wulf ^a,b   Rüsch, Nicolas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward help seeking; Mental health literacy; Mental health service use; Perceived need for treatment

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SERVICE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWITZERLAND; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84962128773     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000488     Document Type: Article

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