Assessing Mental Health Literacy for Anxiety Disorder

评估焦虑症的心理健康素养

基本信息

批准号：
7847684
负责人：
MEREDITH Ellen COLES
金额：
$ 14.32万
依托单位：
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY,BINGHAMTON
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2009-05-22 至 2012-02-28
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7847684
关键词：
Address Adult African American American Anxiety Disorders Attitude Belief Caucasians Caucasoid Race Communities Data Development Device or Instrument Development Distress Failure Feedback Feeling suicidal Focus Groups General Population Hispanics Individual Knowledge Latino Literature Measures Mental Depression Mental Health Mental Health Services Mental disorders Modeling Not Hispanic or Latino Occupational Participant Population Prevention Productivity Property Psychometrics Psychotic Disorders Quality of life Reporting Research Research Personnel Respondent Risk Factors Sampling Schools Services Telephone Testing United States United States Dept. of Health and Human Services Work aged cost design effective therapy experience health literacy help-seeking behavior improved information gathering instrument member mental health counseling public health relevance response service utilization social suicide rate

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This "new investigator" initiated R21, submitted in response to PAR-07-018 "Understanding Health Literacy," draws from the mental health literacy literature to initiate a line of research assessing mental health literacy for anxiety disorders. Mental health literacy is defined as "knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management or prevention". (59, p.182) Currently, of the over 40 million Americans with anxiety disorders each year, (63) only 25 percent seek treatment. (48,80,91) Initial data suggest that poor mental health literacy is a barrier to treatment seeking.78,106 Understanding potential barriers to treatment seeking is important given that anxiety disorders are associated with significant distress and interference in social, occupational or school functioning2 and that effective treatments are available.102 SPECIFIC AIMS: The proposed project addresses three primary aims: 1) to develop and refine a measure of mental health literacy for anxiety disorders, 2) to collect initial data assessing mental health literacy for anxiety disorders from a quota sample of community members throughout the US, and 3) to use the knowledge gained in this project to inform the development of an R01 application to thoroughly assess mental health literacy for anxiety disorders in a representative sample. DESIGN AND HYPOTHESES: An initial draft of the instrument assessing mental health literacy for anxiety disorders will be developed. Four focus groups of 10 members each will then be conducted to explore people's experience with anxiety disorders and elicit feedback on the draft instrument. This information will be used to revise the instrument, and the revised version will then be administered to a pilot sample of 12 respondents via telephone. Next, the final version of the measure will be administered via telephone to a quota sample of 500 participants throughout the US. All participants will be aged 18 to 74 years and either African-American or Caucasian. Both Hispanic/Latino and non-Hispanic/Latino participants will be included. It is hypothesized that the measure developed will have strong psychometric properties and that data from the community sample will reveal low levels of mental health literacy for anxiety disorders. SIGNIFICANCE: We anticipate that the measure of mental health literacy for anxiety disorders developed in this project, and the information gathered, will improve our understanding of knowledge and beliefs of the general public regarding anxiety disorders. This project is thus an important first step in advancing our understanding of potential barriers to treatment-seeking for anxiety disorders and suggesting avenues for increasing service use. Title: Assessing Mental Health Literacy for Anxiety Disorders PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: In the US, more people have anxiety disorders than any other type of mental illness. Disappointingly, most of these people never get treatment. Therefore, this project will assess what people know and believe about anxiety disorders, as a first step towards developing ways to help people with anxiety disorders seek treatment.

描述（由申请人提供）：这位“新研究者”启动了 R21，响应 PAR-07-018“了解健康素养”而提交，借鉴心理健康素养文献，启动了一系列评估焦虑症心理健康素养的研究。心理健康素养被定义为“有助于识别、管理或预防精神障碍的知识和信念”。 (59, p.182) 目前，每年有超过 4000 万美国人患有焦虑症，(63) 只有 25% 的人寻求治疗。 (48,80,91) 初步数据表明，心理健康素养不佳是寻求治疗的障碍。78,106 鉴于焦虑症与显着的痛苦和对社会、职业或学校功能的干扰有关2，了解寻求治疗的潜在障碍非常重要。 102 具体目标：拟议项目涉及三个主要目标：1) 制定和完善焦虑症心理健康素养的衡量标准，2) 收集评估心理健康的初步数据从美国各地社区成员的配额样本中了解焦虑症的素养，以及 3) 利用在该项目中获得的知识为 R01 应用程序的开发提供信息，以彻底评估代表性样本中焦虑症的心理健康素养。设计和假设：将制定评估焦虑症心理健康素养的工具的初稿。然后将成立四个焦点小组，每个小组由 10 名成员组成，以探索人们患有焦虑症的经历，并征求对文书草案的反馈。这些信息将用于修订该工具，然后修订后的版本将通过电话向 12 名受访者组成的试点样本进行管理。接下来，该措施的最终版本将通过电话向全美 500 名参与者的配额样本进行管理。所有参与者年龄在 18 岁至 74 岁之间，并且是非裔美国人或白人。西班牙裔/拉丁裔和非西班牙裔/拉丁裔参与者都将包括在内。据推测，所制定的措施将具有很强的心理测量特性，并且来自社区样本的数据将揭示焦虑症的心理健康素养水平较低。意义：我们预计本项目中制定的焦虑症心理健康素养测量方法以及收集到的信息将提高我们对公众关于焦虑症的知识和信念的理解。因此，该项目是加深我们对寻求焦虑症治疗的潜在障碍的了解并为增加服务使用提出建议的途径的重要第一步。标题：评估焦虑症的心理健康素养公共卫生相关性：在美国，患有焦虑症的人比任何其他类型的精神疾病都要多。令人失望的是，这些人中的大多数从未得到治疗。因此，该项目将评估人们对焦虑症的了解和信念，作为开发帮助焦虑症患者寻求治疗的方法的第一步。