Measuring Barriers to Help-Seeking Behavior in Adolescents |
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| Authors: | Kuhl Josephine Jarkon-Horlick Liat Morrissey Richard F. |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Child Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Schneider Children's Hospital, USA;(2) Department of Child Psychiatry, and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stony Brook University Hospital, USA;(3) Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, USA;(4) Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA |
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| Abstract: | To construct and validate an instrument that would measure barriers to help-seeking behavior in adolescents. Method: A 37-item questionnaire based on prior help-seeking literature was constructed to yield a total score indicating strength of barriers to help-seeking behavior. The instrument was given to a sample of 280 high school students following a pilot study of 65 students. Results: The instrument was found to have good test–retest and internal reliability and adequate validity in the tested population. It shows promise in helping to identify adolescents who may be amenable to, and opposed to, therapeutic intervention, and may aid in understanding which barriers to help seeking are most significant in any given population. |
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