• Overall, only 37.8% of participants had received treatment for an emotional or substance use problem.
• Males were significantly less likely to have received treatment than females.
• Treatment rates for participants with mental health disorders and STBs were still low (approximately 50.7%).
• There were no statistically significant gender differences on readiness to change/willingness to seek help.
• 52.7% of those who had both a lifetime mental disorder and STBs did not consider themselves to have a problem that they needed to change.
• Males (10.6%) were much less likely than females (23.5%) to intend to seek help from another source such as a doctor, a mental health professional, or religious advisor.
• Males were significantly less likely thank females to rate the barrier “you would be too embarrassed” as important.
• Males were also significantly less likely to rate the barrier “you would worry that people would treat you differently if they knew you were in treatment” as important.

Some of the included measured reasons for avoiding seeking help include:

• You are not sure available treatments are very effective.
• You would want to handle the problem on your own.
• You would be too embarrassed.
• You would talk to friends or relatives instead.
• You think it costs too much money.
• You are unsure of where to go or who o see.
• You anticipate problems with time, transportation, or scheduling.
• You are afraid it might harm your school or professional career.
• You would worry that people would treat you differently if they knew that you were in treatment.

For STBs, significant differences were evident in how two barriers were rated:

• Those who had no STBs were significantly less likely to rate “you would want to handle the problem on your own” as important.
• Those who had a mental health difficulty with no STBs were significantly more likely to have higher scores on “you are unsure of where to go or who to see”.