TY - JOUR
AU1 - Weinman, John
AB - BRIEF REPORT Reluctance to Seek Help and the Perception of Anxiety and Depression in the United Kingdom A Pilot Vignette Study Sarah Edwards, BSc, Lucy Tinning, BSc, June S. L. Brown, PhD, MPsychol, Jed Boardman, FRCPsych, PhD, and John Weinman, DSc, PhD ences in perceived need may be another reason (Motjabai Abstract: We investigated if reluctance to seek help could be et al., 2002). explained by how people perceive an illness. Participants were However, what has not been investigated is a possible members of the general public who had experienced mental health relationship between help seeking and individuals’ beliefs or problems, for which approximately half had sought professional illness perceptions about anxiety and depression. Consistent help. We asked them to rate the problems of 2 vignette characters relationships have been found between illness perceptions using the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ). Partici- and consultation, as well as treatment adherence for physical pants who had sought help were more likely to see the problems of health problems (Murphy et al., 1999; Petrie et al., 1996). the vignette characters as having more serious consequences and to Illness perceptions have been measured using a well-estab- understand their problems better, compared with those 
TI - Reluctance to Seek Help and the Perception of Anxiety and Depression in the United Kingdom A Pilot Vignette Study
JF - The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
DO - 10.1097/01.nmd.0000253781.49079.53
DA - 2007-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/reluctance-to-seek-help-and-the-perception-of-anxiety-and-depression-4NnnvCEw1z
SP - 258
EP - 261
VL - 195
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -