Help-Seeking Helps

What Matters in Help - Seeking ?

Offering help functions is a standard feature of computer-based interactive learning environments (ILE). Nevertheless, the effectiveness of learners’ use of help facilities has been subject to extensive debate. In this paper the issues of effectiveness of help and the impact of learner-related factors are addressed in an ILE for plant identification. We report first explorative data from a regu...

Help-seeking for psychiatric disorders.

OBJECTIVE To examine demographic and clinical determinants of seeking help for mental or emotional problems. To determine the proportion of those people with a disorder who sought help. To determine what categories of professionals are sought by those who get care. METHOD A 2-stage random sample of 3956 adult residents of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada was interviewed by trained lay interviewers u...

Symptom Perception and Help-seeking

Measurement of Men’s Help Seeking: Development and Evaluation of the Barriers to Help Seeking Scale

This article describes the development and psychometric evaluation of the Barriers to Help Seeking Scale (BHSS). The measure was designed to assess reasons men identify for not seeking professional help for mental and physical health problems. Exploratory factor analyses in a sample of 537 undergraduate men revealed a 5-factor solution of internally consistent subscales, including Need for Cont...

Measuring help seeking intentions: Properties of the General Help Seeking Questionnaire

Understanding help-seeking intentions and behaviour is fundamental to the identification of factors that can be modified to increase engagement in counselling. Despite considerable research on these variables, integrating prior research has been impeded by a lack of consistent and psychometrically sound help-seeking measures. The General HelpSeeking Questionnaire (GHSQ) was developed to assess ...