Help-seeking for mental health concerns: review of Indian research and emergent insights
Purpose – The purpose of this review was to examine Indian research on help-seeking for mental health problems in adults. Design/methodology/approach – Original Indian research studies on help-seeking for mental health, published from the year 2001–2019 were searched on PubMed, EBSCO, ProQuest and O...
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| description | Purpose – The purpose of this review was to examine Indian research on help-seeking for mental health problems in adults. Design/methodology/approach – Original Indian research studies on help-seeking for mental health, published from the year 2001–2019 were searched on PubMed, EBSCO, ProQuest and OVID using a set of relevant keywords. After applying exclusion criteria, 52 relevant research studies were identified. Findings – The reviewed studies spanned a variety of themes such as barriers and facilitators to help-seeking, sources of help-seeking, causal attributions as well as other correlates of help-seeking, process of help-seeking and interventions to increase help-seeking. The majority of these studies were carried out in general community samples or treatment-seeking samples. Very few studies incorporated non-treatment seeking distressed samples. There is a severe dearth of studies on interventions to improve help-seeking. Studies indicate multiple barriers to seeking professional help and highlight that mere knowledge about illness and availability of professional services may be insufficient to minimize delays in professional help-seeking. Originality/value – Help-seeking in the Indian context is often a family-based decision-making process. Multi-pronged help-seeking interventions that include components aimed at reducing barriers experienced by non-treatment seeking distressed persons and empowering informal support providers with knowledge and skills for encouraging professional help-seeking in their significant others may be useful. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-94849f7ccd5a4e8c91ac6a2097b5f6912023-08-02T07:06:25ZengCollege of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn UniversityJournal of Health Research0857-44212586-940X2022-04-0136342844110.1108/JHR-02-2020-0040662031Help-seeking for mental health concerns: review of Indian research and emergent insightsPrachi Bhavesh Sanghvi0Seema Mehrotra1Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, IndiaDepartment of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, IndiaPurpose – The purpose of this review was to examine Indian research on help-seeking for mental health problems in adults. Design/methodology/approach – Original Indian research studies on help-seeking for mental health, published from the year 2001–2019 were searched on PubMed, EBSCO, ProQuest and OVID using a set of relevant keywords. After applying exclusion criteria, 52 relevant research studies were identified. Findings – The reviewed studies spanned a variety of themes such as barriers and facilitators to help-seeking, sources of help-seeking, causal attributions as well as other correlates of help-seeking, process of help-seeking and interventions to increase help-seeking. The majority of these studies were carried out in general community samples or treatment-seeking samples. Very few studies incorporated non-treatment seeking distressed samples. There is a severe dearth of studies on interventions to improve help-seeking. Studies indicate multiple barriers to seeking professional help and highlight that mere knowledge about illness and availability of professional services may be insufficient to minimize delays in professional help-seeking. Originality/value – Help-seeking in the Indian context is often a family-based decision-making process. Multi-pronged help-seeking interventions that include components aimed at reducing barriers experienced by non-treatment seeking distressed persons and empowering informal support providers with knowledge and skills for encouraging professional help-seeking in their significant others may be useful.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JHR-02-2020-0040/full/pdf?title=help-seeking-for-mental-health-concerns-review-of-indian-research-and-emergent-insightsbarriershelp-seekinghelp-seeking interventionmental healthindia |
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| title_short | Help-seeking for mental health concerns: review of Indian research and emergent insights |
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| topic | barriers help-seeking help-seeking intervention mental health india |
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