Mental health literacy among Internet users

Abstract

The Internet users in this survey have high levels of MHL, identify appropriate pathways to care, and their views on management are consistent with evidence-based treatments.

Media representation of depression in young people: a corpus-based analysis of Irish newspaper coverage

“…However, a quarter of participants could not correctly label the description of depression. An Irish study produced similar findings [Health Service Executive (HSE), 2007], with 74% of respondents accurately identifying depression from a vignette (see also Lawlor et al 2008). However, 13% labelled the same description a 'nervous breakdown', and 30% incorrectly labelled a vignette describing schizophrenia as depression.…”

African American College Students: Literacy of Depression and Help Seeking

“…Over half of the respondents accurately identified depression in the vignettes, a finding that is consistent with previous findings that young adults (Farrer, Leach, Griffiths, Christensen, & Jorm, 2008) and college students (Lauber, Ajdacic-Gross, Fritschi, Stulz, & Rossler, 2005) are cognizant of depressive symptoms. Researchers have speculated that young adults (18-24 years old) have a heightened sense of depression due to the Internet (Lawlor et al, 2008), positive media portrayals of individuals with depression (Farrer et al), and/or college campaigns promoting mental health awareness (So, Gilbert, & Romero, 2005). Conversely, a third of college students did not identify depression as the character's problem in the vignette, although they reported that the characters were experiencing some form of psychological distress.…”

“…University counselors are optimally positioned to collaborate with African American student organizations to host mental health promotion campaigns to discuss the effectiveness of psychopharmacology. Third, the Internet may be useful for providing information on depression given the large number of students who rely on the Internet to seek information on health (Lawlor et al, 2008). Thus, it is important that university counseling centers host websites with accurate and up-to-date information on the symptoms and causes of depression and evidence-based treatments that alleviate depressive symptoms.…”

Mental health literacy and mental health status in adolescents: a population-based survey

“…On the whole, the mental health literacy level among Chinese adults was not high [18][19][20][21]. For adolescents, studies on the MHL are far less in comparison to the adult population [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. Among the studies on the MHL of adolescents in the last decade, most were conducted in older adolescents [26][27][28][29], such as university students, student nurses, and rural young people [30][31][32][33].…”

“…For adolescents, studies on the MHL are far less in comparison to the adult population [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. Among the studies on the MHL of adolescents in the last decade, most were conducted in older adolescents [26][27][28][29], such as university students, student nurses, and rural young people [30][31][32][33]. Some studies involved both younger and older adolescents [22][23][24][25], but very few were found on the MHL of younger adolescents in junior and senior high schools [23].…”