- Title
- Help-seeking by rural residents for mental health problems: The importance of agrarian values
- Creator
- Judd, Fiona; Jackson, Henry; Komiti, Angela; Murray, Greg; Fraser, Caitlin; Grieve, Aaron; Gomez, Rapson
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/59962
- Identifier
- vital:460
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1614.2006.01882.x
- Identifier
- ISSN:0004-8674
- Abstract
- Objective: To examine the role of stoicism, self-efficacy and perceived stigma in predicting help-seeking by rural residents, for mental health problems. Method: A cross-sectional community survey was conducted with a sample of 467 rural residents (58% female), who completed self-report questionnaires assessing current levels of symptomatology, disability, perceived stigma, self-efficacy, stoicism, attitudes towards and experience of seeking help for psychological problems. Results: Overall, 7.6% (n = 129) of respondents had sought help from a general practitioner and/or mental health professional for psychological problems or a mental health issue. More women than men reported having sought such help. Lifetime help-seeking for a psychological problem or mental health issue was positively associated with higher levels of distress and lower levels of stoicism and, to a lesser extent, lower levels of self-efficacy. Conclusions: Efforts to improve help-seeking by rural residents for mental health problems should focus on understanding and addressing attitudes, such as stoicism which act as barriers to help-seeking. © 2006 The Authors; Journal compilation © 2006 The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.; C1
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Relation
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry Vol. 40, no. 9 (2006), p. 769-776
- Rights
- Copyright Wiley
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1103 Clinical Sciences; Attitudes; Help seeking; Mental health; Rural; Stoicism; Community Mental Health Services; Cross-Sectional Studies
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