Barriers and Facilitators to Professional Mental Health Help-Seeking Behavior: Perspective of Malaysian LGBT Individuals

A multicomponent digital intervention to promote help-seeking for mental health problems and suicide in sexual and gender diverse young adults: A randomized controlled trial

“…One potential explanation of these findings could be that the intricate connection between professional help-seeking attitude and help-seeking stigma has formulated a vicious cycle, blocking the intervention effect. Previous research indicated that help-seeking from LGBTQ+ individuals to professionals was deemed undesirable by the LGBTQ+ community in China due to the common idea embedded in the community culture that "help from each other (peer support)" could be more helpful compared to taking the risk of facing invalidation, discrimination, and prejudice to meet non-affirmative professionals, contributing to negative professional help-seeking attitudes and less motivation to seek help when in need [25,37,[48][49][50][51]. Such a norm of seeking help from each other instead of professionals within the community could be the result of MHPs' lack of sufficient training on LGBTQ+-affirmative care in China [52].…”

“…Due to the sudden changes in the schedules or dropouts, there were 2 groups that had only 3 participants. This digital online-based intervention has incorporated 3 key therapeutic components, including ( 1 [34][35][36][37][38]. More specifically, animated psychoeducational videos have been shown to be more tone-neutral and acceptable than traditional psychoeducational videos [34,35,38]; according to the Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) theory, facilitator-led group discussions have been recognized as an effective way to induce in-group empathy, promote attitude change, and advance positive thinking by facilitating group members' self-disclosures [36]; the contents included in the help-seeking brochures were help-seeking encouragement, references to LGBTQ+ affirmative resources, and contact information of these resources, aligning with findings from previous research [37].…”

Barriers and Facilitators to Mental Health Help-Seeking and Experiences with Service Use among LGBT+ University Students in Chile

“…Like barriers, the reported facilitators of help-seeking operated at the individual, social, and service level. The recognition of psychological distress or symptoms by students, family members, or health professionals is relevant for mental health help-seeking, as are positive attitudes towards mental health care [ 49 ]. It is not clear whether there are any differences between LGBT+ and HC people in terms of their perceived need for mental care or attitudes towards help-seeking and how this impacts on the use of mental health services [ 23 ].…”

Sleep disturbance and suicide risk among sexual and gender minority people

“…Interventions such as the Transdiagnostic Sleep and Circadian Intervention ( Dolsen et al, 2021a ; Dong et al, 2020 ; Harvey et al, 2018 , 2021 ), which is a modular treatment designed to address the particular needs of an individual, may be a good fit for addressing the sleep problems experienced by SGM people. Additionally, research on sleep treatments is particularly needed given that SGM people experience barriers to treatment at the patient, provider, and healthcare system level ( Ojeda-Leitner and Lewis, 2021 ; Whaibeh et al, 2020 ; Zay Hta et al, 2021 ). Identifying potential barriers to treatment may be especially important given that number of sleep medicine clinic visits was associated with an 11% reduction in the odds of a suicide attempt in a large sample of veterans ( Bishop et al, 2020 ).…”