“…Young people's broader perceptions of help-seeking were reported as barriers in 39% of studies, and as facilitators in 4%. This subtheme captured young people's general attitudes towards mental health and help-seeking [31,49,53,55,59], help-seeking expectations [20,27,31,33,37,38,46,48,54,59,68,75] and perceptions about how help-seeking reflects on their character, such as perceiving help-seeking as a sign of weakness [21,49,54,60,63,73,75]. The latter was reported in all studies that included male-only samples.…”