Citation

Rice SM, Aucote HM, Parker AG, Alvarez-Jimenez M, Filia KM, Amminger GP. J. Health Psychol. 2015; 22(5): 529-536.

Affiliation

Orygen - The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105315605655

PMID

26391789

Abstract

Men's help seeking for depression continues to gain focussed research and clinical attention. In this study, 125 men (M = 39.02 years) provided data on perceived barriers to mental health help seeking, and self-reported depression at baseline, and 15 weeks. Longitudinal depression caseness was used to investigate group differences in perceived barriers to help seeking. Those experiencing unremitting depression reported the highest perceived help-seeking barriers. This finding was consistent over all domains of help-seeking barriers, and it was independent of previous mental health help-seeking efforts.

FINDINGS are discussed in the broader context of men's mental health and health psychology.

Language: en