Mental health beliefs and help-seeking in an African descended sample with experiences of psychosis
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: BACKGROUND: African-descended groups with psychosis have poorer clinical outcomes and more negative pathways to care than White-British groups. It is therefore important to investigate potential contributing factors to this disparity. AIMS: To explore the relationships between beliefs about schizophrenia and attitudes towards accessing help from mental health services in an African-descended UK-based sample with psychosis. METHOD: Thirty-four participants with self-reported experiences of psychosis completed the Illness Perception Questionnaire for Schizophrenia and the Inventory of Attitudes towards Seeking Help from Services. RESULTS: Beliefs about coherence of symptoms and treatment control were the only significant individual predictors of attitudes towards accessing help from mental health services subscales. CONCLUSIONS: Implications of the findings include the use of culturally-appropriate educational resources and the generation of culturally-informed, collaborative psychological formulations to help guide to guide treatment choice.
Source: Journal of Mental Health
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4407864864