Abstract Due to the nature of their work and operating environments, humanitarian aid workers experience higher rates psychological distress, burnout mental health conditions than other emergency service worker populations. Fourteen international were interviewed examine whether they seek help from others in context work-related specifically, attitudes behaviors regarding personal help-seeking ...

BACKGROUND Poor mental health literacy and negative attitudes toward individuals with mental health disorders may impede optimal help-seeking for symptoms of mental ill-health. The present study examined the ability to recognize cases of depression as a function of respondent and target gender, as well as individual psychological differences in attitudes toward persons with depression. METHOD...

OBJECTIVE The recognition of mental illness without anticipating stigma might encourage adolescents' help-seeking behavior. We aimed to identify the relationship between mental illness identification and adolescents' intention to seek help if faced with mental illness. METHOD We examined the relationships between help-seeking intentions and recognition of mental illness (RMI) without correctl...

OBJECTIVE We examined help-seeking behaviors and factors influencing their choice of hospital care in women currently leaking urine. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was part of a multistage community survey conducted among 5001 women in Nigeria who participated in the Ibadan Urinary Incontinence Household Survey. Help-seeking behavior was analyzed among 139 respondents currently leaking urin...

The role of conformity to dominant U.S. masculine norms as an antecedent to help-seeking attitudes in men has been established using convenience samples made up largely of college-age and European American males. However, the role of conformity to masculine norms on help-seeking attitudes for noncollege-age men or for men from diverse backgrounds is not well understood. To fill this gap in the ...

The goal of our research is to investigate whether a Cognitive Tutor can be made more effective by extending it to help students acquire help-seeking skills. We present a preliminary model of help-seeking behavior that will provide the basis for a Help-Seeking Tutor Agent. The model, implemented by 57 production rules, captures both productive and unproductive help-seeking behavior. As a first ...