The existence of ritual abuse is the subject of much debate. Ritual abuse survivor perceptions of seeking help have not been explored, and studies have yet to utilize self-defined survivors as collaborative researchers. This study addresses both issues. Participatory action research was utilized to design a survey and semistructured interview to investigate ritual abuse survivor experience of s...

The Marine Corps Operational Stress Control and Readiness (OSCAR) program is designed to provide mental health support to marines by embedding mental health personnel within Marine Corps units and increasing the capability of officers and senior noncommissioned officers to improve the early recognition and intervention of marines exhibiting signs of stress. The Defense Centers of Excellence for...

In extending the theories of opinion leadership and seeking to the online environment, this study sought to explore whether the established theories for the offline environment would also help us understand opinion leadership in the online world. The tests of hypotheses revealed consistent patterns of opinion leadership and seeking behaviors across the online and offline environments. However, ...

PURPOSE Medical education is perceived as being very stressful, which leads to declines in subjective well-being in medical students. Therefore, student counseling is becoming an exigent issue. The goal of this study was to investigate the academic difficulties and subjective well-being of medical students to identify their needs with regard to counseling. In addition, we analyzed help-seeking ...

Since having health insurance cannot guarantee access to care among the insured persons, their actual health seeking behavior should be evidence reflecting true access. Therefore, the study aimed to present the patterns of health seeking behavior among the insured persons who actually were able to get free services from their registered hospitals under the Social Security Scheme. Purposive samp...

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Mental health challenges (including mood, anxiety, and behavioral disorders) affect up to one-fifth of adolescents ages 13–18. Although these disorders are associated with impairments in psychological, academic, social, family domains, they often left untreated. Schools have great potential address this service-underutilization gap by identifying those students at risk through mental screening ...

Background Engineering students encounter high levels of stress, which may negatively impact their mental health. Nevertheless, engineering who experience health distress are less likely than peers to seek professional help, even when controlling for gender and race/ethnicity. Purpose We examined beliefs that undergraduate have about barriers facilitators seeking help also sought identify cultu...