BackgroundIndividuals often avoid or delay seeking professional help for mental health
problems. Stigma may be a key deterrent to help-seeking but this has not been reviewed …

BackgroundMental disorders create high individual and societal costs and burden, partly
because help-seeking is often delayed or completely avoided. Stigma related to mental …

Aims–Many people suffering from serious mental illness do not seek appropriate medical
help. The stigma of mental illness has often been considered a potential cause for …

Mental illness stigma has been identified by national policy makers as an important barrier
to help seeking for mental health. Using a random sample of 5,555 students from a diverse …

A recent quantitative review in the area of stigma and help seeking in the armed forces has
questioned the association between these factors (Sharp et al. 2015). To date, the …

Background: Stigma is one of several barriers to seeking mental health care. However, few
studies have examined how stigma relates to other common barriers (eg attitudes about …

Although mental illness stigma has been identified as an important barrier to mental health
treatment, there is little consensus regarding how and when mental illness stigma negatively …

Treatments have been developed and tested to successfully reduce the symptoms and
disabilities of many mental illnesses. Unfortunately, people distressed by these illnesses …

BackgroundStigma associated with mental illness can delay or prevent help-seeking and
service contact. Stigma-related influences on pathways to care in the early stages of …

Many people who would benefit from mental health services opt not to pursue them or fail to
fully participate once they have begun. One of the reasons for this disconnect is stigma; …