@article{ref1,
title="Suicidal ideation, suicide literacy and stigma, disclosure expectations and attitudes toward help-seeking among university students: the impact of schizotypal personality traits",
journal="Early intervention in psychiatry",
year="2021",
author="Fekih-Romdhane, Feten and Amri, Amani and Cheour, Majda",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Similarly to patients with schizophrenia, non-clinical individuals with schizotypal traits have been reported to show an increased risk for suicide-related outcomes. We aimed to assess suicidal ideation, and to determine factors that may have associations with help-seeking attitudes in high schizotypal individuals as compared to low schizotypal individuals. <br><br>METHOD: We carried out a cross-sectional survey. The Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, the attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help scale-short form, the disclosure expectations scale, the scale of suicide ideation, the stigma of suicide scale-short form, the literacy of suicide scale, and the depression anxiety stress scales were administered to 504 college students. A total of 51 students were classified in the high-schizotypy group, and 50 were classified in the low-schizotypy group. <br><br>RESULTS: High-schizotypal students experienced significantly more suicidal ideation, had greater literacy of suicide, had more glorification of suicide, had higher anticipated risks of disclosure and more negative help-seeking attitudes than low-schizotypal students. After controlling for sociodemographic (age, gender, income and tobacco use) and psychosocial variables (personal psychiatric history, family history of suicide, personal history of suicide attempt[s]), depression and suicide ideation), disclosure expectations had both a significant negative independent effect through anticipated risks, and a positive independent effect through anticipated benefits, on high-schizotypal students' help-seeking attitudes. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The apprehension and reluctance to seek help found in high-schizotypal students highlight an urgent need to further understand barriers to help-seeking among at-risk adolescents, and what may motivate them to reach out for support when they are more at-risk for suicide.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1751-7885",
doi="10.1111/eip.13211",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eip.13211"
}