scholarly journals Correlates of help-seeking by parents for the socioemotional development of their 3-year-old children: a longitudinal study

BMJ Open ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. e052595
Author(s):  
Jie Luo ◽  
Hein Raat ◽  
Carmen Betsy Franse ◽  
Rienke Bannink ◽  
Guannan Bai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Socioemotional Development ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Past ◽  
Informal Help

ObjectivesTimely parental help-seeking regarding their child’s socioemotional development is associated with a lower rate and lower severity of psychosocial problems in later life. This study aimed to examine the correlates of parental help-seeking for the socio-emotional development of 3-year-old children.DesignRetrospective cohort study.SettingCommunity-based survey in Rotterdam.ParticipantsOf 2305 parents and their 2-year-old children at baseline, 1507 who completed follow-up questionnaires were included in the analyses when children were 3 years old.Outcome measuresParental help-seeking regarding their child’s socioemotional development and types of formal and informal help sources (eg, general practitioner, internet) used in the past 12 months were measured. Hierarchical logistic regression models were applied to identify factors correlates of parental help-seeking among 13 predisposing, enabling and need factors according to Andersen’s behavioural model.ResultsIn total, 22.6% of parents reported help-seeking in the past 12 months for socioemotional development of their 3-year-old child; 6.8% addressed formal help sources and 17.5% addressed informal help sources. General practitioner (2.7%) and family (12.5%) were the most frequently used formal and informal sources, respectively. In the full model, predisposing factors associated with higher odds of parental help-seeking were child’s other western ethnic background (OR=1.66, 95% CI 1.02 to 2.68) and parental age ≤29 years old (OR=1.71, 95% CI 1.01 to 2.92). No associated factors were found among enabling factors. The need factors associated with higher odds of parental help-seeking were having previous help-seeking (OR=2.52, 95% CI 1.83 to 3.48) and discussing child’s socioemotional development in the well-child visit (OR=2.47, 95% CI 1.73 to 3.53).ConclusionsPredisposing and need factors were associated with parental help-seeking for socioemotional development of 3-year-old children. The findings can be used to further develop support for parents accessing adequate information, prevention and anticipatory care with regards to the child’s socio-emotional development.

scholarly journals Adolescents’ Views on Seeking Help for Emotional and Behavioral Problems: A Focus Group Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Suzanne J. van den Toren ◽  
Amy van Grieken ◽  
Marjolein Lugtenberg ◽  
Mirte Boelens ◽  
Hein Raat
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Emotional And Behavioral Problems ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Healthy Adolescent ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Informal Help

This study aimed to get insight into adolescents’ views on help-seeking for emotional and behavioral problems. Fourteen focus groups were conducted. Two vignettes, depicting one healthy adolescent with few issues and one adolescent with severe psychosocial problems, were used to structure the focus groups. The focus groups were framed within a youth help-seeking model. Adolescents (mean age of 15.0 years) generally reported seeking help from friends or the internet for mild issues and from a person they trust like a parent or school mentor, for more severe problems. Adolescents correctly recognized the issues in vignette one as surmountable and the problems in vignette two as severe. A bond of trust with a help source was regarded as the main facilitator for the decision to seek help. Adolescents reported a preference for help sources who clearly displayed their expertise for the issue at hand and for informal help-sources, particularly friends.

scholarly journals Correlates of Help-Seeking Behaviour in Adolescents Experiencing a Recent Negative Life Event

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janie Houle ◽  
François Chagnon ◽  
Denis Lafortune ◽  
Réal Labelle ◽  
Katherine Belleville Paquette
Keyword(s):  
Help Seeking ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Negative Life Event ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Character Inventory ◽  
Help Seeking Behaviour ◽  
Cognitive Impulsivity ◽  
Informal Help

This study examines the psychological factors associated with formal and informal help-seeking behaviour after a recent negative life event in adolescents 14-17 years old. A sample of 126 adolescents attending secondary schools completed the Life Events Questionnaire (Newcomb), the Beck Depression Inventory, the Temperament and Character Inventory (Cloninger) and the Impulsivity Scale (Barratt). The results indicate that informal help-seeking is more frequent than formal. The factors associated with seeking help from the informal network (friends, parents, siblings, relatives) after the life event were the female gender, living in an intact nuclear family, and reward dependence. Formal help seeking is associated with having sought help from the mother and cognitive impulsivity. Recommendations for increasing adolescents’ help-seeking behaviour are suggested.

scholarly journals Determinants of Service Use among Young Canadians with Mental Disorders

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 629-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Bergeron ◽  
Léo-Roch Poirier ◽  
Louise Fournier ◽  
Pasquale Roberge ◽  
Geneviève Barrette
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mood Disorder ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Related Disorder ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Perceived Need

Objective: To identify the determinants of service use by young Canadians with mental health problems. Methods: Data were drawn from a recent large Canadian mental health survey. The analyses were conducted on a subsample of 1092 Canadians aged 15 to 24 years and identified as presenting a mood disorder, an anxiety disorder, or a substance-related disorder in the 12 months preceding the survey. We classified variables potentially associated with any type of service use for a mental health problem over a 12-month period according to predisposing, enabling, and need factors. We conducted weighted multivariate logistic regressions to determine the association of each factor with service use. Results: In the final model, being female and living alone were the predisposing factors associated with service use. None of the enabling factors predicted help seeking. In regard to the perceived need factors, those who had difficulties with social situations were more likely to use services. Having a mood disorder and (or) having a diagnosed chronic illness were the evaluated need factors associated with service use. Conclusion: Certain groups of young Canadians are less likely to seek help for mental health problems and could be the target of interventions aimed at increasing service use.

scholarly journals Determinants of waterpipe smoking among high school students in Jakarta, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ridhwan Fauzi ◽  
Chitlada Areesantichai
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Waterpipe Smoking ◽  
School Students ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Past ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
Peer Use ◽  
Waterpipe Use

AbstractObjectivesThe study aimed to examine factors associated with past 30 days waterpipe use among high school students in Jakarta, Indonesia.MethodsWe surveyed a multistage cluster random sample of 1,318 students of grade 10th and 11th from 14 schools in Jakarta. Multiple logistic regressions were employed to examine the association between past 30 days waterpipe use with sociodemographic characteristics, cigarettes smoking status, parental and peer use, availability and affordability.ResultsOf 1,318 participants, 3.3% of female and 8.4% of male currently smoked waterpipe. Multivariate analysis revealed that current waterpipe use was significantly associated with family use (AOR: 4.844, 95% CI: 1.225–19.151), friend use (AOR: 2.554, 95% CI: 1.424–4.582), and availability (AOR: 2.143, 95% CI: 1.127–4.076). Being current smokers were six times more likely (AOR: 6.055, 95% CI: 3.123–11.739) to use waterpipe in the past 30 days.ConclusionsThe finding suggests that smoking by a family member, friends, use of conventional cigarettes, and availability are significantly associated with increased probability of current waterpipe used among adolescents.

scholarly journals Hearing Loss and Help-Seeking Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 797-797
Author(s):  
Nicholas Reed
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Medicare Beneficiary ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Help Seeking Behaviour ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Future Work

Abstract Hearing Loss (HL) is common among older adults and is associated with poor health care quality outcomes include 30-day readmissions, length of stay, poorer satisfaction, and increased medical expenditures. These associations may manifest in changes in help-seeking behaviour. In the 2015 Current Medicare Beneficiary Study (MCBS) (n=10848; weighted sample=46.3 million), participants reported whether they knowingly had avoided seeking care in the past year and self-reported HL was measured as degree of trouble (none, a little, or a lot) hearing when using a hearing aid if applicable. In a model adjusted for demographic, socioeconomic, and health factors, those with a little trouble (OR= 1.612; 95% CI= 1.334-1.947; P<0.001) and a lot of trouble hearing (OR= 2.011; 95% CI= 1.443-2.801; P<0.001) had 61.2% and 101.1% higher odds of avoiding health care over the past year relative to participants with no trouble hearing. Future work should examine whether hearing care modifies this association.

scholarly journals Alice in Suicideland: Exploring the Suicidal Ideation Mechanism through the Sense of Connectedness and Help-Seeking Behaviors

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3681
Author(s):  
Minh-Hoang Nguyen ◽  
Tam-Tri Le ◽  
Hong-Kong To Nguyen ◽  
Manh-Toan Ho ◽  
Huyen T. Thanh Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Suicidal Thoughts ◽  
Help Seeking Behaviors ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Cultural Responses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Informal Help

On average, one person dies by suicide every 40 s. However, extant studies have largely focused on the risk factors for suicidal behaviors, not so much on the formation of suicidal thoughts. Therefore, we attempt to explain how suicidal thoughts arise and persist inside one’s mind using a multifiltering information mechanism called Mindsponge. Bayesian analysis with Hamiltonian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique was run on a dataset of multinational students (N = 268) of an international university in Japan. Item 9 in the PHQ-9 was used to survey suicidal ideation. The associations among four main variables, namely, (i) suicidal ideation, (ii) help-seeking willingness (informal and formal sources), (iii) sense of connectedness, and (iv) information inaccessibility (represented by being international students), were tested in four models. Sense of connectedness is negatively associated with suicidal ideation, but its effect becomes less impactful when interacting with international students. The impact of a sense of connectedness on informal help-seeking willingness (toward family members) among international students is also lessened. Informal help-seeking is negatively associated with suicidal ideation, whereas formal help is positive. The findings support our assumption on three fundamental conditions for preventing suicidal thoughts: (i) a high degree of belongingness, (ii) accessibility to help-related information, and (iii) healthy perceived cultural responses towards mental health. Therefore, systematically coordinated programs are necessary to effectively tackle suicidal ideation.

scholarly journals Violence and discrimination among Ugandan residents during the COVID-19 lockdown

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Katana ◽  
Bob Omoda Amodan ◽  
Lilian Bulage ◽  
Alex R. Ario ◽  
Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
World Health ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Past

Abstract Background In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda inclusive, implemented lockdowns, curfew, banning of both private and public transport systems, and mass gatherings to minimize spread. Social control measures for COVID-19 are reported to increase violence and discrimination globally, including in Uganda as some may be difficult to implement resulting in the heavy deployment of law enforcement. Media reports indicated that cases of violence and discrimination had increased in Uganda’s communities following the lockdown. We estimated the incidence and factors associated with experiencing violence and discrimination among Ugandans during the COVID-19 lockdown to inform control and prevention measures. Methods In April 2020, we conducted a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data under the International Citizen Project (ICP) to assess adherence to public health measures and their impact on the COVID-19 outbreak in Uganda. We analyzed data on violence and discrimination from the ICP study. We performed descriptive statistics for all the participants’ characteristics and created a binary outcome variable called experiencing violence and/or discrimination. We performed logistic regression analysis to identify the factors associated with experiencing violence and discrimination. Results Of the 1726 ICP study participants, 1051 (58.8%) were males, 841 (48.7%) were currently living with a spouse or partner, and 376 (21.8%) had physically attended work for more than 3 days in the past week. Overall, 145 (8.4%) experienced any form of violence and/or discrimination by any perpetrator, and 46 (31.7%) of the 145 reported that it was perpetrated by a law enforcement officer. Factors associated with experiencing violence or discrimination were: being male (AOR = 1.60 CI:1.10–2.33), having attended work physically for more than 3 days in the past week (AOR = 1.52 CI:1.03–2.23), and inability to access social or essential health services since the epidemic started (AOR = 3.10 CI:2.14–4.50). Conclusion A substantial proportion of Ugandan residents experienced violence and/or discrimination during the COVID-19 lockdown, mostly perpetrated by law enforcement officers. We recommend mitigation of the collateral impact of lockdowns with interventions that focus on improving policing quality, ensuring continuity of essential services, and strengthening support systems for vulnerable groups including males.

Delayed help seeking behavior in dementia care: preliminary findings from the Clinical Pathway for Alzheimer's Disease in China (CPAD) study

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Zhao ◽  
Xiaozhen Lv ◽  
Maimaitirexiati Tuerxun ◽  
Jincai He ◽  
Benyan Luo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Family History ◽  
Clinical Pathway ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Univariate Analysis ◽  
Positive Family History ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
People With Dementia

ABSTRACTBackground:The prevalence and factors associated with delays in help seeking for people with dementia in China are unknown.Methods:Within 1,010 consecutively registered participants in the Clinical Pathway for Alzheimer's Disease in China (CPAD) study (NCT01779310), 576 persons with dementia (PWDs) and their informants reported the estimated time from symptom onset to first medical visit seeking diagnosis. Univariate analysis of general linear model was used to examine the potential factors associated with the delayed diagnosis seeking.Results:The median duration from the first noticeable symptom to the first visit seeking diagnosis or treatment was 1.77 years. Individuals with a positive family history of dementia had longer duration (p= 0.05). Compared with other types of dementia, people with vascular dementia (VaD) were referred for diagnosis earliest, and the sequence for such delays was: VaD < Alzheimer's disease (AD) < frontotemporal dementia (FTD) (p< 0.001). Subtypes of dementia (p< 0.001), family history (p= 0.01), and education level (p= 0.03) were associated with the increased delay in help seeking.Conclusions:In China, seeking diagnosis for PWDs is delayed for approximately 2 years, even in well-established memory clinics. Clinical features, family history, and less education may impede help seeking in dementia care.

scholarly journals Genomics of ageing in twins

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Mangino
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Twin Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Ageing ◽  
Classical Twin Design ◽  
Environmental Component ◽  
Early Life Events ◽  
Generation Sequencing

Ageing is a complex multifactorial process, reflecting the progression of all degenerative pathways within an organism. Due to the increase of life expectancy, in recent years, there is a pressing need to identify early-life events and risk factors that determine health outcomes in later life. So far, genetic variation only explains ~20–25 % of the variability of human survival to age 80+. This clearly implies that other factors (environmental, epigenetic and lifestyle) contribute to lifespan and the rate of healthy ageing within an individual. Twin studies in the past two decades proved to be a very powerful tool to discriminate the genetic from the environmental component. The aim of this review is to describe the basic concepts of the twin study design and to report some of the latest studies in which high-throughput technologies (e.g. genome/epigenome-wide assay, next generation sequencing, MS metabolic profiling) combined with the classical twin design have been applied to the analysis of novel ‘omics’ to further understand the molecular mechanisms of human ageing.

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