The impact of mental health information overload on community education programs to enhance mental health-care seeking

IF 1.6 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Andrea B. Bink, P. Corrigan
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Abstract

Purpose Education programs seek to increase the public’s mental health literacy so they are better able to, among other things, help others engage in care when in need. This task may be diminished when such programs overwhelm participants with too much information. In addition, participants might arrive to the program with information overload related to the covered health topic. Information overload about health topics has been shown to influence attitudes and behavioral intentions. The overall purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between mental health information overload, topic interest, and care seeking recommendations. Design/methodology/approach The current study tested a path suggesting high mental health information overload diminishes interest in learning about mental health, which in turn reduces recommendations to others to seek appropriate help when in need. Participants completed online measures of mental health information overload, topic interest and recommendations for care seeking. The data set analyzed represents valid responses from 221 participants. Structural equation modeling was completed to confirm the path model hypothesized for this study. Findings Structural equation modeling showed satisfactory fit and significant betas for the hypothesized path. Originality/value This study adds to the emerging literature on the impact of health information overload and is the first to the best of the authors’ knowledge to measure mental health information overload. Program developers should consider information overload in the ongoing development of public mental health education programs.
心理健康信息超载对社区教育计划的影响,以提高心理保健寻求
目的:教育项目旨在提高公众的心理健康素养,使他们能够更好地在有需要的时候帮助他人。当这类节目用太多的信息淹没参与者时,这项任务可能会减少。此外,参与者可能会带着与所涵盖的健康主题相关的信息过载来到该计划。有关健康主题的信息过载已被证明会影响态度和行为意图。本研究的总体目的是研究心理健康信息超载、主题兴趣和求医建议之间的关系。设计/方法/方法当前的研究测试了一条路径,表明高度的心理健康信息过载降低了学习心理健康的兴趣,这反过来又减少了在需要时向他人寻求适当帮助的建议。参与者完成了心理健康信息超载、话题兴趣和寻求护理建议的在线测量。所分析的数据集代表了221名参与者的有效回答。通过结构方程建模来验证本研究假设的路径模型。结果:结构方程模型显示了令人满意的拟合和显著的贝塔假设路径。原创性/价值本研究增加了关于健康信息过载影响的新兴文献,并且是作者所知的第一个衡量心理健康信息过载的研究。在公共心理健康教育项目的持续发展中,项目开发者应该考虑信息超载。
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Journal of Public Mental Health
Journal of Public Mental Health PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-
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2.40
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