Determinants of attitudes towards professional mental health care, informal help and self-reliance in people with subclinical depression

Conclusions:
People differ in the way they cope with symptoms which may influence their preferred care. Higher levels of mastery were positively associated with professional and informal care, but negatively associated with self-reliance. Both age and mastery showed relatively large effect sizes.

Source: International Journal of Social Psychiatry - January 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: van Zoonen, K., Kleiboer, A., Cuijpers, P., Smit, J., Penninx, B., Verhaak, P., Beekman, A. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research