Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-69).

I denna kvalitativa översiktsstudie var syftet att undersöka vad forskning har identifierat som svårigheter för våldsoffer i samkönade parrelationer i deras hjälpsökande beteende av formella källor, samt hur de upplever det stödet de söker. Efter en innehållsanalys identifierades olika svårigheter som kunde vara barriärer i HBTQ-personers hjälpsökande beteende som sedan analyserades utifrån konstruktivistiska teorier. Svårigheter att definiera deras upplevelser som våld samt brist på kunskap om tillgänglig hjälp framkom. “Outing”, bristande kompetens hos myndigheter, tidigare dåligt bemötande och förväntade negativa konsekvenser var andra möjliga barriärer i målgruppens hjälpsökande beteende. Vidare framkom att det för HBTQ-personer är viktigt att det stöd som finns är HBTQ-anpassat. I diskussionen lyfts målgruppens svåråtkomlighet som en försvårande faktor vad gäller forskning inom området. Vidare diskuteras hur normer och kontext har en betydande roll för HBTQ-personer avseende deras hjälpsökande beteende. Avsaknaden av forskning avseende våld i samkönade parrelationer generellt diskuteras samt förslag att utöka forskning inom området ges. / This qualitative scoping review aimed to investigate what current research states as difficulties for victims of same-sex partner violence in their help-seeking behaviours of formal sources. Furthermore it aims to investigate LGBT-persons experiences of their sought support. After a content-analysis different barriers were identified as possible obstacles in their help-seeking behavior, which was then analyzed through constructivist theories. Results indicated that problems identifying their experiences as violence and lack of knowledge emerged as a potential barrier. As was outing, lack of professional competence, prior negative encounters and expected negative outcomes were other possible barriers in their help-seeking behavior. Furthermore, the importance of LGBT-specific services emerged as an important facet for the respondents. In the discussion part of the study, difficulties regarding reaching the target group are discussed as a specific hindrance in LGBT research. Also, the implications of norms and the current context is discussed as an important factor regarding LGBT-persons help-seeking behavior. The current lack of research regarding violence in same-sex couples is discussed and more research is suggested as being needed in the field.

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by Chung Yee-ha, Ida. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 313-326). / Abstract and questionnaire also in Chinese. / Acknowledgments --- p.i / Abstract (English version) --- p.ii-iii / Abstract (Chinese version) --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1-9 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- The Addiction Profile in Hong Kong --- p.10-28 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Literature Review --- p.29-94 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Research Questions and Hypotheses --- p.95-104 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Methodology --- p.105-119 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- Results --- p.120-185 / Chapter Chapter 7: --- Discussion --- p.186-238 / Chapter Chapter 8: --- Summary and Conclusions --- p.239-250 / Appendix A: A Summary of the Local Studies on Adolescent Drug Abuse 251 - --- p.268 / Appendix B: Questionnaire (Chinese version) --- p.269-289 / Appendix C: Revised Reasons Scale (Chinese version) --- p.290-292 / Appendix D: Questionnaire (English version) --- p.293-310 / Appendix E: Revised Reasons Scale (English version) --- p.311-312 / References --- p.313-326

This study examined a mediational model of mental illness stigma, parent-child communication about mental health concerns, and help seeking attitudes/behaviors among young adults with at least one immigrant parent while considering the possible moderating effect of acculturation gap. The primary goal of this study was to examine whether the acculturation gap changed the relation between mental illness stigma and communication about personal mental health concerns with immigrant parents, which in turn could become a significant predictor of their help-seeking attitudes, as well as a barrier to seeking professional mental health services. Findings provided support to the direct and indirect effects of mental illness stigma through communication about mental health concerns on attitudes about help-seeking. The acculturation gap hypothesized to be a possible moderator for the stigma-communication about mental health concerns relationship among young adult ABCI was found to be significant for ABCI with a low mainstream culture acculturation gap. Discussion on the findings, limitations of the study, future research directions, and counseling implications are addressed.

Even though the United States (U.S.) spends, on average, more money per student than most Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, it continues to lag behind its international peers in mathematics achievement. This study, which responded to the call for educational reforms that improve the mathematics achievement of U.S. students, aimed to examine the issue of student help-seeking behaviors and teacher instructional practices as they interact to affect student mathematics achievement. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) defines student help-seeking behaviors as the ways in which students have a propensity to depend on the knowledge and intellect of others, including both their peers and teachers, when attempting to solve problems. Because mathematics is perhaps the most difficult school subject, student help-seeking behaviors should be a critical component of mathematics learning and teaching. Unfortunately, the research literature is barren concerning this important educational issue. This study attempted to produce the first wave of empirical evidence and open up an avenue for future research in this less-charted academic field, with the ultimate goal being to use students’ help-seeking behaviors to improve their mathematics achievement. Using the U.S. sample of 15-year-old students from PISA 2012 (the most recent PISA assessment in which the main area of focus was mathematical literacy), this study intended to determine whether students’ help-seeking behaviors play a significant role in their mathematics achievement, whether this relationship varies from school to school, and whether teacher instructional practices contribute to the school-level variation. Due to the multilevel structure of the data, with students being nested within schools, a two-level hierarchical linear model (HLM) was employed in the analysis of the data. Multiple measures of mathematics achievement were used as the dependent variables for separate analyses. Student help-seeking behavior was used as the key student-level independent variable, while three teacher instructional practices were used as the key school-level independent variables. In addition, several student and school background characteristics were used as control variables. The findings from this study indicate that student help-seeking behavior has a statistically significant effect on all measures of student mathematics achievement, even after controlling for various student background characteristics. On the other hand, the study did not find statistically significant evidence that the effects of student help-seeking behavior on any measure of student mathematics achievement vary from school to school. Overall, the issue of student help-seeking behaviors should be considered a worthy topic to pursue in future educational research. From a practical standpoint, since students’ mathematics achievement is positively associated with their help-seeking behaviors, efforts should be made to educate mathematics teachers on how to encourage their students to be more proactive in seeking help in the learning of mathematics.

This study aimed to document the extent of domestic violence among a community sample of women of South Asian origin in the United States, and to investigate sociocultural factors associated with domestic violence in this population. It also investigated the extent of informal and formal help-seeking among women of South Asian origin who are victims of domestic violence and sociocultural factors associated with their help-seeking. The sociocultural factors of isolation (measured by ties with family, friends, and social and cultural groups, as well as ties with spouse/partner), perceived social support, acculturation, and patriarchy were used to predict abuse and help-seeking. Both paper and Web surveys were used to collect data from a cross section of South Asian women residing in the United States of America. In total, 215 cases were included in the multivariate analyses. Most women in the sample were highly educated. Based on the Conflict Tactics Scale -2, results indicated that 38% of the sample experienced psychological abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or injury from abuse in the past year. Psychological abuse was by far the most prevalent form of abuse (52%), but 48% of the women who were abused experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse, or injury. Isolation, as measured by ties with spouse/partner, and perceived social support predicted both abuse and help-seeking. Isolation, as measured by ties with family, friends, and social and cultural groups, also predicted help-seeking. Of the women who reported seeking help, the use of informal help sources (e.g., family, friends) was more prevalent than the use of formal resources (e.g., doctors, counselors, battered women’s shelters). The study contributes to the research by providing empirical data on the extent of abuse and help-seeking behaviors of women of South Asian origin in the United States. Among the study’s practice and policy implications for preventing domestic violence is a need to reach out to South Asian women in the community to insure that they are not isolated and know that support is available. The study also suggests that outreach to men is necessary in order to improve relationships with their spouses/partners that may lead to reduced abuse. The information will contribute to designing culturally appropriate interventions to prevent domestic violence and help South Asian women victimized by domestic violence. / text

Although reasons for avoiding help, goal orientation, and social efficacy have been examined in the context of social adaptive help seeking, researchers have not pursued how these constructs influence computer adaptive help seeking. The three studies in this dissertation addressed both social and computer adaptive help seeking. The purpose of this dissertation was to determine if reasons for avoiding help seeking, personal goal orientation, or social efficacy predict social and computer adaptive help seeking for students enrolled in computer-based, developmental mathematics courses in community college settings. The purpose of the first study was to determine if students differentiate among three help-seeking sources: (a) formal, (b) informal, and (c) computer. Study 1 revealed that this population considered two different sources of help: social and computer help. These results were used to formulate the following questions for Study 2 and Study 3: 1. Do reasons for avoidance of help predict social or computer adaptive help seeking? 2. Does personal goal orientation predict social or computer adaptive help seeking? 3. Does social efficacy predict social or computer adaptive help seeking? Study 2 revealed that ability concerns negatively predict social adaptive help seeking and that mastery goal orientations positively predict both social and computer adaptive help seeking. Study 3 revealed that ability concerns negatively predict social adaptive help seeking and that mastery goal orientations and social efficacy for peers positively predict social adaptive help seeking. Additionally, ability concerns negatively predict computer adaptive help seeking, and mastery goal orientations positively predict computer adaptive help seeking. The finding that students who adopt a mastery-goal orientation use both social and computer means to adaptive help seek was not surprising. The finding that students who have ability concerns do not tend to social adaptive help seek is also consistent with previous research. However, the most important conclusion from Study 3 is that students who have ability concerns do not computer adaptive help seek, regardless of the anonymity provided by the computer. More research is needed in this field to examine why students with ability concerns tend to avoid help seeking altogether. / text

This study explored the relationship between cultural mistrust level and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. It was hypothesized that Blacks with high levels of cultural mistrust, when compared to those with low levels, would show less favorable attitudes toward seeking formal help for psychological problems. Black students were administered the Cultural Mistrust Inventory, Help-Seeking Attitude Scale, Reid-Gundlach Social Service Satisfaction Scale, and Opinions About Mental Illness Scale. Using a 2 (gender) X 2 (mistrust level) MANCOVA, a main effect for the factor of mistrust level was found along with a mistrust level by gender interaction. Students with higher levels of cultural mistrust were found to hold less favorable attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help when compared to students with lower levels of cultural mistrust.

Introducción: Dentro de los factores que se asocian a la morbimortalidad por enfermedades respiratorias en niños, uno de los principales es la falta de búsqueda de atención por el sistema de salud. Sin embargo, existe poca información sobre los factores asociados a ella. Objetivo: Evaluar la asociación entre variables sociodemográficas y la falta de búsqueda de atención en menores de 5 años con síntomas de Infección respiratoria aguda (IRA) según la ENDES 2019 en el Perú. Material y métodos: Estudio observacional, transversal analítico, a partir de análisis secundario de la ENDES 2019. Se incluyeron a los cuidadores de pacientes menores de 5 años con síntomas de infecciones respiratorias agudas que hayan respondido a la encuesta antes mencionada. Resultados: 34.35% no buscaron atención en establecimientos de salud. La presencia de medicamentos en el hogar (RP=1.64, IC 95%: 1.37-1.97) y la edad del menor (RP=1.26, IC 95%: 1.17-1.35). En contraparte, los hogares que pertenecen al quintil más rico (RP=0.26, IC95%: 0.11- 0.55) y la edad del cuidador(a) (RP= 0.99; IC95%: 0.98 - 1.00) tuvieron una asociación negativa con la falta de atención. Conclusiones: La falta de búsqueda de atención es frecuente en la población peruana. El bajo nivel socioeconómico persisten como barrera para la atención en establecimientos. La automedicación podría explicar la disponibilidad de medicación en el hogar como factor de riesgo para no acudir a los establecimientos de salud. / Introduction: Among the factors that are associated with morbidity and mortality from respiratory diseases in children, one of the main problems is the lack of care seeking by the health system. However, there is little information on the factors associated with it. Objective: To determine the association between sociodemographic characteristics and the lack of seeking care in health facilities in children under 5 years of age with acute respiratory infection symptoms according to the 2019 Perú Demographic and Health Survey (ENDES 2019). Material and methods: Observational, cross-sectional analytical study, based on the secondary analysis of ENDES 2019, which will include caregivers of patients under 5 years of age with acute respiratory infection symptoms who have responded to the survey. Results: 34.35% did not seek care in health facilities. The presence of medications in the home (RP=1.64, IC 95%: 1.37-1.97)and the age of the minor (RP=1.26, IC 95%: 1.17-1.35). On the other hand, be part of the richest quintile (RP=0.26, IC95%: 0.11- 0.55) and the age of the caregiver (RP= 0.99; IC95%: 0.98 - 1.00) had a negative association with the lack of care in health facilities. Conclusions: The lack of seeking care in health facilities is frequent in the Peruvian population. Lower wealth persists as a barrier to seek care in health facilities. Self-medication could explain the availability of medication at home as a risk factor for not going to health facilities. / Tesis