HELP-SEEKING FOR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: IDENTIFYING FACTORS THAT DELAY PATIENTS’ HELP-SEEKING

Help-seeking for psychiatric disorders.

OBJECTIVE To examine demographic and clinical determinants of seeking help for mental or emotional problems. To determine the proportion of those people with a disorder who sought help. To determine what categories of professionals are sought by those who get care. METHOD A 2-stage random sample of 3956 adult residents of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada was interviewed by trained lay interviewers u...

Motivational and cognitive pathways to medical help-seeking for Alzheimer's disease: a cognitive impairment response model.

OBJECTIVES Relationships among cognitive and motivational factors in predicting medical help-seeking for Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms were tested. METHOD Community residents awaiting jury service (N = 280) completed questionnaires, including responses to a vignette depicting prototypical early symptoms of AD in a hypothetical mother. Cognitive responses to the vignette included AD sympto...

Hope for Help-Seeking: A Positive Psychology Perspective of Psychological Help-Seeking Intentions

In the present study, we used multigroup structural equation modeling in a sample of college students (N = 2,461) to examine ethnic and gender differences in the connections between dispositonal hope and intentions to seek psychological help from formal and informal sources. In a personalemotional problem scenario, we found a robust positive relationship between hope and intentions to seek help...

What Matters in Help - Seeking ?

Offering help functions is a standard feature of computer-based interactive learning environments (ILE). Nevertheless, the effectiveness of learners’ use of help facilities has been subject to extensive debate. In this paper the issues of effectiveness of help and the impact of learner-related factors are addressed in an ILE for plant identification. We report first explorative data from a regu...

Symptom Perception and Help-seeking