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Readiness to change the barriers to treatment seeking: Discussion

  • In keeping with the findings from other studies, there was high unmet need with only 37.8% of those with a lifetime mental disorder having received treatment.
  • Males reported lower levels of having received treatment.
  • Males reported lower intentions to access treatment from external professional services, but not university services.
  • Males and females had comparable levels of perceived need/readiness to change, suggesting that different factors explain previous service uptake and also future intentions to seek help from external professional services.
  • The current barriers failed to explain low past update of services and intention to seek external help from external services, suggesting that other factors like mental heath literacy, lack of perceived need, preference for self-management, etc., may be useful to consider.
  • People who did not have STBs reported lower levels of having received treatment, and showed lower perceived need/readiness to change.
  • Despite group differences in having received treatment and readiness to change/perceived need, the two groups (those with lifetime problems and STBs, and those with lifetime problems without STBs) were comparable in terms of their intentions to access both university services and other external professional health services if a difficulty arose in the coming year.
  • Those who had a mental health difficulty but no STBs placed more emphasis on the response “you are unsure of where to go or who to see” in comparison to those who had a mental health disorder with STBs, which may result from poor mental health literacy.
  • People with STBs are more likely to want to handle the problem on their own, which may demonstrate stigma and shame that can accompany suicidal thoughts.

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Updated 2021-05-29

Contributors are:

Amelia Henriques
Amelia Henriques
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Who are from:

Boston College
Boston College
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