Facilitating Help Seeking Behavior and Referrals for Mental Health Difficulties in School Aged Boys and Girls: A School-Based Intervention |
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| Authors: | Darcy A Santor Christiane Poulin John C LeBlanc Vivek Kusumakar |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4J1, Canada;(2) Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada;(3) Departments of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Although the need for early intervention for mental health difficulties is widely acknowledged, few studies have attempted
to explicitly increase actual help seeking behavior for mental health difficulties. Students in intervention classrooms received
two one-hour, in-class workshops on distress and help seeking and were compared to students in non-intervention classrooms
in a 2-level hierarchical model. More frequent help seeking behavior and more mental health referrals were observed among
students in the intervention group than among students in the comparison group. Effects were moderated by the level of distress
experienced by students, but not by help seeking attitudes, and could not be accounted for by school staff referrals or website
utilization. Results showed that help seeking behavior for mental health difficulties and mental health referrals can be increased
with only a moderate investment in time, but that benefits of school-based intervention may be greatest among students with
specific needs, such as high levels of distress.
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| Keywords: | Help seeking Youth Mental health Hierarchical linear models Intervention |
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