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Mental Health Literacy and Mental Health Help-seeking Behaviors of the Information Technology Workforce

Author : Edlin Garcia Colato

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 50,12 MB

Release : 2023

Category : Burn out (Psychology)

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The overall aim of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between the understanding of mental health and mental health help-seeking among a sample of IT professionals. As the information technology (IT) workforce continues to expand throughout many other sectors, thus increasing IT professional opportunities for employment, the lack of comprehensive mental health support and resources in some sectors could have negative consequences for their overall quality of life. Their health is not only critically important from an industry-level perspective, but also because of the significance of what their job roles entail. Understanding the current state of the IT workforce's mental health needs can then help with strategizing to implement programs or interventions that can help improve and/or maintain good mental health. The first study focused on testing 1) the relationship between IT-profession-specific stressors and anxiety, depression, and stress experienced by IT professionals and 2) whether MHL mediates the relationship between anxiety, depression, and stress and help-seeking behaviors among IT professionals. First study findings showed respondents who had past year experiences of being exposed to illicit content reported significantly higher symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. While working with limited resources was positively associated with higher levels of stress. MHL was found to partially explain the relationship between depression and help-seeking, but not for anxiety and stress. The second study focused on the identification and mapping of Twitter discussions directed at IT professionals on mental health topics that align with the four elements of the mental health literacy construct. Of the four dimensions of the MHL construct, "knowledge and beliefs about risk factors and causes, self-treatments/interventions, and professional help available" was most common in the mental health Tweet discussions.



Help-seeking and Mental Health Education: An Evaluation of a Classroom-based Strategy to Modify Help-seeking for Mental Health Problems

Author : William Garry Sharp

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Page : 123 pages

File Size : 45,37 MB

Release : 2006

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ISBN : 9780549092780

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College students often fail to seek help for incipient symptoms of mental illness and/or substance abuse, despite the fact that the majority of these students fall in the age range where the likelihood of developing a mental disorder is among the highest. Cited factors for the increased incidence of mental illness among college students include biological and maturational changes, adjustments to new ways of living, and exposure to new peer group behavior and its contributing pressures. This increased risk, combined with the general reluctance to seek help, makes identifying strategies to increase help-seeking behavior among college students of prime importance. Research indicates that one means to modify help-seeking is by increasing an individual's "mental health literacy" (i.e. knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which help in the recognition, management, and prevention of mental illness). Within the domain of mental health literacy, stigma (i.e. negative, inaccurate, or culturally conflicting opinions about mental illness), low treatment expectations and fearfulness, and lack of knowledge regarding treatment options appear critical to modifying an individual's willingness to seek help. The current study sought to assess the impact that a brief, 45-minute psychoeducational intervention had on student's attitudes toward seeking help and overt help-seeking behavior. The content of the intervention focused on dispelling myths and stigmas often associated with mental illness, modifying expectations about psychotherapy efficacy, and providing students with information regarding treatment options. One hundred and eighty-one college students were randomly assigned to a computer education, classroom education, or control condition. Compared to students in the control condition, participant in the classroom condition showed significant improvements in their attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help, as well as some of their opinions about mental illness, for up to one month following the intervention. A similar effect was not demonstrated in the computer group, suggesting that these improvements may be related to the method in which this information is presented. These finding suggest that the use of a brief, classroom-based mental health education program is a promising method to modify help-seeking attitudes and negative opinions of the mentally ill.



The Intersection of Behavioral Health, Mental Health, and Health Literacy

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 97 pages

File Size : 40,36 MB

Release : 2019-03-26

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309485339

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The field of health literacy has evolved from early efforts that focused on individuals to its current recognition that health literacy is a multidimensional team and system function. Health literacy includes system demands and complexities as well as individual skills and abilities. While communicating in a health-literate manner is truly important for everyone, it can be especially important for those with mental or behavioral health issues and for the systems and teams that interact with them and treat these individuals. The purpose of the workshop, which was held on July 11, 2018, in Washington, DC, was to explore issues associated with effective communication with individuals with mental or behavioral health issues and to identify ways in which health literacy approaches can facilitate communication. In particular, the workshop aimed to gain a better understanding of how behavioral health and mental health concerns can adversely affect communications between providers and patients and their families. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.



Mental Health Informatics

Author : Ardis Hanson

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 26,72 MB

Release : 2013-01-17

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0195183029

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Mental Health Informatics offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary issues in mental health that focuses on the innovative use of computers and other information technology in support of patient care, education, services delivery, and research in the field of mental health services. This text deals with resources, devices, and formalized methods for optimizing the storage, retrieval, and management of information for problem solving and decision-making in mental health. Mental health informatics is an interdisciplinary field based upon computer and information sciences, the cognitive and decision sciences, public health and mental health (including epidemiology), and telecommunications. Researchers in informatics have discovered new methods and techniques to enhance health and mental health care, scientific and applied research, and education through information technology. The fourteen chapters are divided into four main parts, including: 1) an introduction to informatics, public health, and mental health; 2) an overview of the ethical, legal, services delivery, and organizational issues in data/records standards and technology adoption; 3) discusses research in today's online environment, addressing issues including research competencies, standards for literature reviews, constructing search strategies, and synthesizing findings; and 4) provides a discussion of the globalization of information and future issues in policy and practice in mental health informatics.



The Role of Mental Health Literacy in Mental Health Care in Public Housing Settings

Author : Hyejin Jung

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Page : 252 pages

File Size : 35,46 MB

Release : 2015

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Mental health literacy is a critical factor associated with mental health care. It may facilitate people to seek professional mental health care or help others with mental illness in accessing mental health care. Many people are unlikely to seek professional mental health care at an early stage of mental illness. In public housing settings that are staffed by non-mental health professionals, mental health literacy is important to promote mental health care. Yet, few studies in the U.S. examine the role of mental health literacy in seeking mental health care or helping others with mental illness to receive care, particularly in public housing settings that serve people at greater risk for mental illness. Moreover, there is a need for a comprehensive mental health literacy measure to build rigorous mental health literacy research. This three article dissertation aims to advance current knowledge in mental health literacy research in the U.S. by focusing on three areas. The first article described the process of developing a mental health literacy measure that represents multiple components of mental health literacy and assessing its’ psychometric properties. The second and third articles examined the way in which mental health literacy influences attitudes toward mental health help-seeking and confidence of helping others with mental illness among public housing employees. Findings suggest that a newly developed multidimensional measure of mental health literacy is reliable and valid. People with a high level of mental health literacy are likely to have favorable attitudes toward mental health help-seeking. They are also likely to feel familiar with mental illness, which in turn increases confidence in helping others with mental illness. This dissertation introduces a reliable and valid tool for future mental health literacy research and highlights the need for mental health education in community settings.





Behavioral Healthcare and Technology

Author : Lisa Marsch

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 45,62 MB

Release : 2014-11-10

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0199314039

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In recent years, there has been an explosion of research focused on using technology in healthcare, including web- and mobile- health assessment and intervention tools, as well as smartphone sensors and smart environments for monitoring and promoting health behavior. This work has shown that technology-based therapeutic tools offer considerable promise for monitoring and responding to individuals' health behavior in real-time. They may also function as important "clinician-extenders" or stand-alone tools, may be cost-effective and may offer countless opportunities for tailoring behavioral monitoring and intervention delivery in a manner that is optimally responsive to each individual's profile and health behavior trajectory over time. Additionally, informational and communication technologies may be used in the context of decision support tools to help individuals better understand and access treatment. Technology may enable entirely new models of healthcare both within and outside of formal systems of care and thus offers the opportunity to revolutionize healthcare delivery. This edited book defines the state of scientific research related to the development, experimental evaluation, and effective dissemination of technology-based therapeutic tools targeting behavioral health. Behavioral Healthcare and Technology provides an overview of current evidence-based approaches to leverage technology to promote behavioral health, including management of substance use, mental health, diet/exercise, medication adherence, as well as chronic disease self-management. Additionally, the book defines the state of implementation research examining models for deploying technology-based behavioral healthcare systems and integrating them into various care settings to increase the quality and reach of evidence-based behavioral healthcare while reducing costs.





Casual Beliefs of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Skepticism as Predictors of Help Seeking Behavior and Mental Health Literacy in Lebanon

Author : Christine El Zein

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 32,90 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Mental health

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Previous research has shown that there is a high prevalence of mental disorders and low treatment seeking behavior prevailing globally and more noticeably in the Arab region including Lebanon, and Causal beliefs of mental illness were reported to influence help-seeking behavior. Also, research has shown that psychiatric skepticism is existing in Lebanon and it is associated with lower levels of mental health literacy and more negative attitudes towards professional help seeking behavior and a considerable number of patients suffering from a mental illness choose to seek treatment from the general health sector (i.e. physicians and general practitioners) instead of seeking help from the mental health sector. As such, the purpose of this study is to examine the psychosocial, biological and supernatural including religious causal beliefs of mental illness and their effect on the attitudes held towards professional help seeking behavior, to investigate the relationship between psychiatric ...



Raising Mental Health Awareness in Higher Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author : Martin, Melissa

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 145 pages

File Size : 10,31 MB

Release : 2017-11-24

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1522537945

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The state of college students’ mental health is a growing phenomenon across university campuses. Educators often watch students struggle with academic, social, financial, and familial issues. Over the past decade, these issues have led to an increasing number of students exhibiting behavior related to anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders. Raising Mental Health Awareness in Higher Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities describes the current state of college students’ mental health in the United States, influences that contribute to wavering mental health, factors that promote flourishing mental health, and interventions that support mental health. While highlighting present programs and activities, readers will find new methods that can be implemented to support the needs of college students. This book is an important resource for staff and faculty in postsecondary institutions seeking current research on the growing problem of mental health in higher education.