印度大学生同伴规范认知与抑郁求助

International journal of medicine and public health Pub Date : 2020-11-27 DOI:10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.33

Fathima Ma, Seema Mehrotra, Paulomi M. Sudhir

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版权所有©2020 Phcog.Net。这是一篇根据知识共享署名4.0国际许可条款发布的开放获取文章。引用这篇文章：Fathima MA，Mehrotra S，Sudhir P.印度大学生抑郁的同伴规范感知与求助。国际医学公共卫生杂志。2020年；10（4）：152-4摘要背景：尽管常见心理健康问题的发生率很高，但大学生的专业求助率很低。对与求助相关的社会规范的认知可能是影响求助倾向的因素之一。目的：本研究调查了印度城市大学生中与抑郁症状求助相关的同伴规范及其与自身求助倾向的关系。方法：采用横断面调查设计。印度大城市的大学生（N=300）构成了研究样本。使用了一般求助调查表的修订版。这包含了两个抑郁症的小插曲；一个描述了生活事件背景下的抑郁症状，另一个描述没有任何生活事件的类似抑郁症状。对于这两个小插曲，调查了自己和同龄人从不同来源寻求帮助的可能性。结果：朋友被评为最有可能寻求抑郁症状帮助的来源。当抑郁症之前发生过生活事件时，自己和同龄人向专业人士寻求帮助的可能性比没有发生生活事件时小。当大学生认为同龄人寻求专业帮助的可能性更高时，他们认为自己寻求专业援助的可能性更大。结论：同伴对抑郁症求助的认知规范对大学生寻求专业帮助的倾向有重要影响。强调了设计干预措施以改善青年求助的影响。

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Perceived Peer Norms and Help Seeking for Depression in Indian College Youth

Copyright © 2020 Phcog.Net. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Cite this article : Fathima MA, Mehrotra S, Sudhir P. Perceived Peer Norms and Help Seeking for Depression in Indian College Youth. Int J Med Public Health. 2020;10(4):152-4. ABSTRACT Background: Low rates of professional help seeking are observed in college youth despite high prevalence of common mental health problems. Perceptions regarding social norms related to help seeking can be one of the factors that influence help seeking inclination. Aim: The present study examined perceived peer norms related to help seeking for depressive symptoms and their relationship to one’s own help seeking inclination in urban Indian college youth. Methods: A crosssectional survey design was used. College youth (N=300) in a metropolitan Indian city constituted the study sample. A modified version of the General Help Seeking Questionnaire was used. This incorporated two depression vignettes; one described depressive symptoms in the context of a life event and another one depicted similar depressive symptoms without any life event. The likelihood of oneself as well as one’s peers seeking help from different sources was inquired into, for both the vignettes. Results: Friends were rated as the most likely source of seeking help for depressive symptoms. Seeking help from a professional by self and by one’s peers was rated as less likely when depression was preceded by a life event than when it was not. College youth rated their own likelihood of seeking professional help to be higher when they perceived their peers’ likelihood of seeking professional help to be higher. Conclusion: Perceived peer norms about help seeking for depression can play an important role in influencing inclination to seek help from professional sources in college youth. Implications for designing interventions to improve help seeking in youth are highlighted.

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