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The Behavioral Model of Health: Education, Behavioral Health Factors, and Stigma as Predictors of Help-Seeking Attitudes

verfasst von: Lorraine T. Benuto, Jena Casas, Frances Gonzalez, Rory Newlands

Erschienen in: Community Mental Health Journal | Ausgabe 7/2020

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Abstract

Per the behavioral model of health, help-seeking attitudes (and even behavioral health service use) are a function of predisposing and enabling individual characteristics (e.g. demographic characteristics, health beliefs), as well as contextual characteristics (resources, social structures such as education etc.). While researchers have examined how demographic (gender and ethnicity) and socioeconomic (education and income) characteristics, psychological factors, and internal barriers relate to help-seeking attitudes, the majority of these works have investigated how different variables independently act on help-seeking attitudes in lieu of more comprehensively investigating how they operate in tandem. The purpose of the current study was to examine how demographic (gender and ethnicity) and socioeconomic (education and income) characteristics, behavioral health factors, and internal barriers relate to help-seeking attitudes in a diverse sample of primary care patients. We also sought to examine differences in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics in mental health literacy, stigma, and help-seeking attitudes. Participants were 286 primary care patients. Results from this study indicate that a combination of socioeconomic characteristics (i.e. education), behavioral health factors (level of distress and history of behavioral health service utilization), and internal barriers (personal stigma) predicted help-seeking attitudes among primary care patients. There was an inverse relationship between education and personal stigma and help-seeking attitudes such that higher levels of education and higher levels of personal stigma were associated with more negative help-seeking attitudes.

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Titel: The Behavioral Model of Health: Education, Behavioral Health Factors, and Stigma as Predictors of Help-Seeking Attitudes
verfasst von: Lorraine T. Benuto
Jena Casas
Frances Gonzalez
Rory Newlands
Publikationsdatum: 13.03.2020
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Community Mental Health Journal / Ausgabe 7/2020
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00601-y

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