打破障碍:探索心理健康信仰和寻求老年人的帮助
Peta Prindiville1, Sunil Bhar1, Ilona McNeill1
1Department of Psychological Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Aging & mental health
|March 2, 2026
概括
年龄较大的成年人.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 健康心理学 心理健康心理学
背景情况:
- 精神健康问题在老年人中很常见,但寻求帮助的行为很低.
- 现有的研究发现了寻求帮助的障碍,但缺乏对自我调节信念的关注.
- 了解这些信念对于改善老年人获得心理健康护理的机会至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查由常识自我调节模型指导的信念如何预测老年人正式和非正式寻求帮助.
- 评估这些信念对寻求帮助的意图和行为的预测力.
- 探索特定症状信念与正式寻求帮助之间的相关性.
主要方法:
- 对390名居住在社区的老年人 (60岁以上) 进行了调查.
- 收集的数据包括关于疾病的信念,感知障碍 (耻辱,临床,系统) 以及寻求帮助的意图和行为.
- 使用统计分析来检查变量之间的关系.
主要成果:
- 信念在很大程度上预测了正式和非正式的寻求帮助,即使考虑到其他障碍.
- 信念预测了寻求正式帮助的意图,但不是非正式的帮助.
- 关于治疗有效性的信念对寻求帮助的正式意图和行为特别有影响.
结论:
- 针对无助信念的干预措施,特别是关于治疗有效性的干预措施,可能会提高精神健康问题的老年人寻求帮助的情况.
- 解决基于认知和信念的因素对于改善这种人口群体的心理健康保健参与至关重要.
- 未来的研究应该专注于开发和测试以信仰为中心的干预措施.
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