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| Published: December 28, 2021
Barriers to Mental Health Services
Department Of Psychology, Ethiraj College for Women (Autonomous), Chennai, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Department Of Psychology, Ethiraj College for Women (Autonomous), Chennai, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.207.20210904
DOI: 10.25215/0904.207
ABSTRACT
This study examined intrinsic and extrinsic barriers to mental health care among young (18-35 years,n =149) and older adults (36-59 years,n =146 ) using a 44 item self-report measure, Barriers to Mental Health Services Scale- R (BMHSS-R). Results indicated that middle aged adults have higher intrinsic and extrinsic barriers when it comes to accessing mental health services than young adults. Intrinsic barriers were found to be higher in existence than extrinsic barriers in both young adults and middle aged adults. Gender differences were also studied and it was found that males have more barriers when it comes to accessing mental health services than females. However results reveal no difference between young males and females with respect to barriers. Analysis has revealed that both males and females report higher intrinsic barriers than extrinsic ones.
Keywords
Barriers, Intrinsic And Extrinsic, Mental Health, Age, Gender Differences
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Kishore N.& Shaji H. S.
Received: October 01, 2021; Revision Received: December 25, 2021; Accepted: December 28, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.207.20210904
10.25215/0904.207
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 4, October- December, 2021