Personality and perceived need for mental health care among primary care patients

Help seeking and perceived need for mental health care among individuals in Canada with suicidal behaviors.

OBJECTIVE This study examined and compared help seeking, perceived need, satisfaction with health professionals, and barriers to care in three groups: individuals with a mental disorder without suicidal behaviors, those with suicidal ideation with or without a mental disorder, and those with a suicide attempt with or without a mental disorder in the past year. METHODS Data came from the Canad...

Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults.

Only half of older adults with a mental disorder use mental health services, and little is known about the causes of perceived need for mental health care (MHC). We used logistic regression to examine relationships among depression, anxiety, chronic physical illness, alcohol abuse and/or dependence, sociodemographics, and perceived need among a national sample of community-dwelling individuals ...

Perceived Risk of Mental Health Problems in Primary Care

In the face of limited resources and an aging population with increasingly care needs, healthcare systems must identify community-dwelling older adults with mental health problems at higher risk of adverse outcomes such as institutionalization, hospitalization and death, in order to deliver timely and efficient care. The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of mental health co...

Measuring the need for mental health care.

Perceived need for care and health care utilization among depressed and anxious patients with and without suicidal ideation.

BACKGROUND Information is scarce concerning the perceived needs and the amount of health-care utilization of persons with suicidal ideation (SI) compared to those without SI. AIMS To describe the needs and health care use of persons with and without SI and to investigate whether these differences are associated with the severity of the axis-I symptomatology. METHOD Data were obtained from 1...