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Title of Journal: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Abbravation: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

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Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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1433-9285

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Why wait Reasons for delay and prompts to seek he

Authors: Anna Thompson Caroline Hunt Cathy Issakidis
Publish Date: 2004/06/01
Volume: 39, Issue: 10, Pages: 810-817
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The initial delay to seek treatment accounts for a significant proportion of the unmet need for treatment of common psychiatric conditions This study aimed to examine the barriers to initial helpseeking and factors that facilitate helpseeking for anxiety and depressionHelpseeking history was retrospectively selfreported by 233 patients at a specialist anxiety clinic all of whom had delayed seeking professional treatment for at least one month Data gathered included age at onset age at helpseeking primary reason for the delay prompt to seek help and first professional contactedThe most frequently endorsed reasons for the delay related to lack of knowledge about mental illness or available treatment Increasing illness severity or disability was the primary prompt to seek help for the majority of respondents Reason for the delay showed some relationship with length of the delay but prompt to seek help did not A general medical practitioner GP was the first professional contacted in 71 of casesLack of public ‘mental health literacy’ contributes to slow problem recognition Increasing illness severity eventually facilitates problem recognition and prompts helpseeking Structural barriers to initial helpseeking are relatively unimportant within the Australian health care system General practitioners play an important role as gatekeepers to appropriate mental health care

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