IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 4965: Improving Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviours for Male Students: A Framework for Developing a Complex Intervention

IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 4965: Improving Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviours for Male Students: A Framework for Developing a Complex Intervention International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph17144965 Authors: Sagar-Ouriaghli Godfrey Graham Brown Men are less likely to seek help for mental health difficulties and this process is often used to help explain the disproportionally higher suicide rates compared to women. Furthermore, university students are often regarded as a vulnerable population group with a lower propensity to seek help. Thus, male students are a very high-risk group that is even more reluctant to seek help for mental health difficulties, placing them at high risk of suicide. Often, student mental health problems are highlighted in the media, but very few evidence-based solutions specifically designed for male students exist. The current paper seeks to provide a comprehensive framework about how to better design mental health interventions that seek to improve male students’ willingness to access psychological support. The Medical Research Council’s (MRC’s) framework for developing a complex intervention was used to develop an intervention relevant to male students. In this paper, previous help-seeking interventions and their evaluation methods are first described, secondly, a theoretical framework outlining the important factors male students face when accessing...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Article Source Type: research