Mental Health Help-Seeking Experience and Attitudes in Latina/o American, Asian American, Black American, and White American College Students

Kam, Brandt; Mendoza, Hadrian; Masuda, Akihiko

doi:10.1007/s10447-018-9365-8

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“…As for nationality, many studies confirmed a relationship between cultural background and help‐seeking when considering differences between Asian and other ethnic groups. For example, Brownson et al (), Cheng et al (), Choi and Miller (), and Kam et al () found that Asians had less favourable attitudes towards help‐seeking, less help‐seeking intentions and were less likely to seek help compared to other ethnic groups. Fourteen studies did not find a relationship.…”

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confidence: 99%

Variables Related to Academic Help‐Seeking Behaviour in Higher Education – Findings from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

Bornschlegl

Meldrum

Caltabiano

2020

Review of Education

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Universities admit increasingly diverse student cohorts with varying academic entry standards. To address students' varying academic prerequisites, academic support servicessuch as literacy and numeracy supportare offered to ensure student success. However, students often do not engage. Aimed at mapping variables related to a student's decision to seek academic help in order to identify gaps, this systematic scoping review informs future research and supports the provision of academic support services for diverse student cohorts. As recent research does not provide sufficient evidence, the areas of psychological, physiological and help-seeking in career counselling were included. Informed by the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), database and reference list searches were conducted for age, gender, nationality and cultural background, acculturation, stigma, socioeconomic status, educational background, help-seeking experience, perceived behavioural control, attitudes, locus of control, personality and subjective norms, and 168 primary research studies were included in the review. Studies were selected based on their publication year, and the context and the variables examined. Information from the studies was systematically entered into a database and organised. Findings show that gender, stigma, help-seeking experience, attitudes and subjective norms are crucial for help-seeking in general. More specifically, gender, age, cultural background and personality seem to be related to academic help-seeking and should therefore be considered when evaluating or designing academic support services. Although other variables were examined in some studies, no trends could be identified for these due to ambivalent results, indicating that the variables related to academic help-seeking may depend on the context. This review also revealed that there are gaps that should be addressed in future research concerning academic help-seeking behaviour, while at the same time, if possible, including all variables identified in this review.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Variables Related to Academic Help‐Seeking Behaviour in Higher Education – Findings from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

Bornschlegl

Meldrum

Caltabiano

2020

Review of Education

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“…In an attempt to provide a comprehensive overview, the current paper is unable to provide more specific recommendations for sub-groups of male students. For instance, sexual minority male students or male students from ethnic minority backgrounds face different barriers and it is likely that they will need more tailored interventions to accommodate their needs and encourage help-seeking [109][110][111][112][113][114]. Lastly, this framework is yet to be implemented when designing future male-student help-seeking interventions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Improving Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviours for Male Students: A Framework for Developing a Complex Intervention

Sagar-Ouriaghli

Godfrey

Graham

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Men are less likely to seek help for mental health difficulties and this process is often used to help explain the disproportionally higher suicide rates compared to women. Furthermore, university students are often regarded as a vulnerable population group with a lower propensity to seek help. Thus, male students are a very high-risk group that is even more reluctant to seek help for mental health difficulties, placing them at high risk of suicide. Often, student mental health problems are highlighted in the media, but very few evidence-based solutions specifically designed for male students exist. The current paper seeks to provide a comprehensive framework about how to better design mental health interventions that seek to improve male students’ willingness to access psychological support. The Medical Research Council’s (MRC’s) framework for developing a complex intervention was used to develop an intervention relevant to male students. In this paper, previous help-seeking interventions and their evaluation methods are first described, secondly, a theoretical framework outlining the important factors male students face when accessing support, and thirdly, how these factors can be mapped onto a model of behaviour change to inform the development of an evidence-based intervention are discussed. Finally, an example intervention with specific functions and behaviour change techniques is provided to demonstrate how this framework can be implemented and evaluated. It is hoped that this framework can be used to help reduce the disparity between male and female students seeking mental health support.

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“…Finally, individual-level factors associated with underutilization of mental health services include sex (being male), greater perceived need, illness conceptualizations, greater distrust of mental health professionals, experiencing psychological distress, and greater mental health stigma (Abe- Kim et al, 2002;Bauer, Chen, Alegría, 2012;Clement et al, 2015;Han & Pong, 2015;Kayaalp, 2016). Kam et al, (2018) reported that Asian American college students (compared to African American, Latina/o, and White students) reported more stigma surrounding mental health services, more distrust of mental health professionals and less interpersonal openness regarding their own difficulties. Even though Asians (regardless of age) report significant mental health symptoms (e.g., depression and anxiety symptoms), they still access mental health services at low rates and have less favorable attitudes towards mental health care (Cheng et al, 2018;Park, Cho, Bernstein, & Shin, 2013).…”

Section: Predictors Of Mental Health Service Utilization Among Asian mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Asians living in the United States (U.S.) and other countries continue to demonstrate low rates of mental health service utilization, fewer intentions to seek mental health treatment, negative attitudes towards mental health care, and greater perceived barriers for accessing mental health services (Chong, Abdin, Vaingankar, Kwok, & Subramaniam, 2012;Kim & Zane, 2016;Kam, Mendoza, & Masuda, 2018;Lu, Dear, Johnston, Wootton, & Titoy, 2014;Sue, Cheng, Saad, & Chu, 2012). Southeast Asian college students living in Australia, for example, reported more negative attitudes towards mental health care than Australian college students (Logan, Steel, & Hunt, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Southeast Asian college students living in Australia, for example, reported more negative attitudes towards mental health care than Australian college students (Logan, Steel, & Hunt, 2017). Asian young adults living in the U.S. are also less likely than their White and other racial/ethnic minority peers to utilize mental health care and perceive greater barriers to care (Hunt, Eisenberg, Lu, & Gathright, 2015;Kam et al, 2018;Kim & Zane, 2016;Kratt, 2018;Wu, Bathie, Kalibatseva, Sung, Leong, & Collins-Eaglin, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Help Seeking Behavior in a Diverse Sample of Asian American Adults

Nguyen

Corona

DeCarlo³

et al. 2018

J Ethn Cult Stud

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We sought to characterize the help-seeking behavior of Asian Americans living in a Southeastern community in the U.S. by examining different types of services sought, help-seeking preferences, and how demographic characteristics and mental health problems (including domestic violence) predicted these behaviors. 610 Asian Americans (mean age = 39.43 years; 59.6% female; 75% immigrants) completed an anonymous, community survey that included measures of different types of help-seeking behaviors and preferences, mental health symptoms, and exposure to domestic violence. The two most-frequently help-seeking behaviors included seeking advice from friends, family members, or relatives (66.7%), and visiting a medical doctor (46.4%). In logistic regression models, older age, sex, immigrant status and symptomatic depression predicted different types of help-seeking behaviors and preferences. Neither domestic violence experience or symptomatic anxiety significantly predicted help-seeking.

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Mental Health Help-Seeking Experience and Attitudes in Latina/o American, Asian American, Black American, and White American College Students

Cited by 42 publications

References 54 publications

Variables Related to Academic Help‐Seeking Behaviour in Higher Education – Findings from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

Variables Related to Academic Help‐Seeking Behaviour in Higher Education – Findings from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

Improving Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviours for Male Students: A Framework for Developing a Complex Intervention

Help Seeking Behavior in a Diverse Sample of Asian American Adults

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