Mental health beliefs and help-seeking in an African descended sample with experiences of psychosis.

• Tác giả: Katherine Berry, Dawn Edge, Aisleen Keena, Helen Morley
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: England : Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England) , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 643671

Tóm tắt

BACKGROUND: African-descended groups with psychosis have poorer clinical outcomes and more negative pathways to care than White-British groups. It is therefore important to investigate potential contributing factors to this disparity. AIMS: To explore the relationships between beliefs about schizophrenia and attitudes towards accessing help from mental health services in an African-descended UK-based sample with psychosis. METHOD: Thirty-four participants with self-reported experiences of psychosis completed the Illness Perception Questionnaire for Schizophrenia and the Inventory of Attitudes towards Seeking Help from Services. RESULTS: Beliefs about coherence of symptoms and treatment control were the only significant individual predictors of attitudes towards accessing help from mental health services subscales. CONCLUSIONS: Implications of the findings include the use of culturally-appropriate educational resources and the generation of culturally-informed, collaborative psychological formulations to help guide to guide treatment choice.