Medical student attitude toward seeking professional psychological help

West African Immingrants' Attitude Toward Seeking Psychological Help

WEST AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS‘ ATTITUDES TOWARD SEEKING PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP by Damafing Keita Thomas Research is needed to better understand the impact of migration on West African immigrants‘ mental health and their ability and willingness to seek traditional Western care. Therefore, the present quantitative study investigated the variance in attitudes toward seeking psychological help as predicted b...

Predicting attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help among Alaska Natives.

This study sought to examine the role of current/previous treatment experience, stigma (social and self), and cultural identification (Caucasian and Alaska Native [AN]) in predicting attitudes toward psychological help seeking for ANs. Results indicated that these variables together explained roughly 56% of variance in attitudes. In particular, while self-stigma and identification with the Cauc...

Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help: Factor Structure and Socio-Demographic Predictors

Attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help (ATSPPH) are complex. Help seeking preferences are influenced by various attitudinal and socio-demographic factors and can often result in unmet needs, treatment gaps, and delays in help-seeking. The aims of the current study were to explore the factor structure of the ATSPPH short form (-SF) scale and determine whether any significant so...

Cultural Values , Attitudes toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help , and Willingness to See

Predictive validity of the attitudes toward medical help-seeking scale

OBJECTIVE This study examines the predictive validity of the action/intention subscale of the attitudes toward seeking medical help scale in a college sample. PARTICIPANTS Participants were 51 female undergraduates recruited from psychology classes. Data were collected at two time points between January and April, 2011. METHODS Students completed the attitudes subscale and a measure of medi...