How Can We Actually Change Help-Seeking Behaviour for Mental Health Problems among the General Public? Development of the ‘PLACES’ Model
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Development and Rationale for Facilitating Factors in ‘PLACES’ Model
2.1. Stress Workshops
- (1)
- To be as accessible as possible, especially to non-consulters.
- (2)
- To offer an acceptable large-scale intervention.
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- SELF-REFERRAL (S)
- 2.
- PUBLICITY (P)
- 3.
- ACCEPTABLE (AND ENGAGING) INTERVENTION (A)
- 4.
- CONVENIENCE—SETTING AND TIMING (C)
- (1)
- Uptake: 176 attended the information meeting.
- (2)
- Non-consultation: Just under half (41%) had not previously consulted their GPs [20].
- (3)
- Severity: In this study, participants’ anxiety scores were above average (Spielberger trait scores 51.5), which is higher than the threshold for probable anxiety [34]. A finding from a later study of Stress participants indicated 66% of stress workshop participants scored above the ICD psychiatric threshold [35].
- (4)
- Ethnicity: Data was not collected in the initial study but was collected in a later study in London, where 13.2% reported themselves as Black (9.4%) or Asian (3.8%).
2.2. Depression Workshops
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- LAY NON-DIAGNOSTIC TITLES (L)
- 2.
- PERCEIVED) EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTION (E)
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- ACCEPTABILITY OF PROGRAMME (A)
2.3. Stress Workshops for Adolescents
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- CONVENIENCE—SETTING AND TIMING (C)
- 2.
- ACCEPTABLE (AND ENGAGING) INTERVENTION (A)
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- LAY NON-DIAGNOSTIC TITLES (L)
- 4.
- SELF-REFERRAL (S)
- 5.
- PUBLICITY (P)
2.4. Postnatal Depression (PND) Workshops
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- PERCEIVED EFFECTIVENESS (E)
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- PUBLICITY AND SELF-REFERRAL (P and S)
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- CONVENIENCE (C)
- 4.
- ACCEPTABILITY (A)
3. Discussion
4. Clinical Implications
Research Implications
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Brown, J.S.L.; Lisk, S.; Carter, B.; Stevelink, S.A.M.; Van Lieshout, R.; Michelson, D. How Can We Actually Change Help-Seeking Behaviour for Mental Health Problems among the General Public? Development of the ‘PLACES’ Model. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 2831. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052831
Brown JSL, Lisk S, Carter B, Stevelink SAM, Van Lieshout R, Michelson D. How Can We Actually Change Help-Seeking Behaviour for Mental Health Problems among the General Public? Development of the ‘PLACES’ Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(5):2831. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052831
Chicago/Turabian StyleBrown, June S. L., Stephen Lisk, Ben Carter, Sharon A. M. Stevelink, Ryan Van Lieshout, and Daniel Michelson. 2022. "How Can We Actually Change Help-Seeking Behaviour for Mental Health Problems among the General Public? Development of the ‘PLACES’ Model" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 5: 2831. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052831
APA StyleBrown, J. S. L., Lisk, S., Carter, B., Stevelink, S. A. M., Van Lieshout, R., & Michelson, D. (2022). How Can We Actually Change Help-Seeking Behaviour for Mental Health Problems among the General Public? Development of the ‘PLACES’ Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(5), 2831. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052831