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Association Between Treatment Seeking and Personal Knowledge of Others With Emotional or Mental Problems

Michelle M. Tran, M.S., Robert A. Curland, M.S., and Yan Leykin, Ph.D. [email protected]Authors Info & Affiliations
Publication: Psychiatric Services
Volume 71, Number 4
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900190
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Abstract

Objective:

The aim of this study was to examine whether people who screened positive for depression were more likely to have sought treatment if they had personal knowledge of other individuals with emotional or mental problems or of individuals who have sought treatment for them.

Methods:

Participants who screened positive for current major depression (N=239) via an Internet-based depression screening study completed an online survey about seeking treatment for depression.

Results:

After the authors controlled for social support, stigma, and demographic variables, analyses showed that individuals who personally knew someone with emotional or mental problems either within or outside of their family were more likely to themselves have sought treatment for depression. The same was true for those who personally knew someone—again either within or outside of their family—who had sought treatment for emotional or mental problems.

Conclusions:

Personal knowledge of others with emotional problems or who had sought treatment for them may play a role in decisions about one’s own treatment.

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Psychiatric Services
Volume 71 • Number 4 • April 01, 2020
Pages: 393 - 396
PubMed: 31822239

History

Received: 11 April 2019
Revision received: 30 September 2019
Accepted: 24 October 2019
Published online: 11 December 2019
Published in print: April 01, 2020

Keywords

  1. depression
  2. treatment seeking
  3. stigma
  4. treatment decisions

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Michelle M. Tran, M.S.
Department of Psychology, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, California (all authors); Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Leykin).
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Robert A. Curland, M.S.
Department of Psychology, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, California (all authors); Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Leykin).
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Yan Leykin, Ph.D. [email protected]
Department of Psychology, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, California (all authors); Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Leykin).
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Notes

Send correspondence to Dr. Leykin ([email protected]).
This study was presented in part at the California Psychological Association Convention, April 26–29, 2018, San Diego.

Competing Interests

The authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.

Funding Information

Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Seed Fund:
National Institute of Mental Healthhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000025: 5K08MH091501
This study was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (grant 5K08MH091501) and the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Seed Fund.

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