Depression Literacy

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Jorm, Korten, Jacomb, Christensen, Rogers, and Pollitt (1997) defined mental health literacy as the knowledge and beliefs about mental illnesses that aid recognition, management, or prevention of such illnesses, and is an important determinant of help-seeking. Depression literacy, thus, may consist of several components, including knowledge about depression (i.e., the ability to diagnose depression, the beliefs and the perceptions about its causes and its treatments, knowledge and beliefs about self-help and professional help interventions, and attitudes to collaborate in treatment). Large proportions of patients with depression may not seek help, may not know where to seek help, may have negative attitudes to treatments, or may be fearful …show more content…
Poor knowledge about causes of depression and its biological aspects were prominent in patients suffering from depression in various research studies. Stress and negative life experiences were the most highly endorsed causal items for depression, and medication obedience to antidepressants was associated with lower perceived stigma about the illness. (Sirey et al, 2001; Srinivasan, Cohen, & Parikh, …show more content…
Among those who eventually did seek help, non-psychiatric physicians and friends were most frequently named as the first point of contact (Henderson, Pollard, Jacobi, & Merkel, 1992; Roness, Mykletun, Dahl, 2005).These findings indicate that the majority of people with depression or anxiety do not seek help. It was reported that 55% of subjects who fulfilled the Research Diagnostic Criteria of Major Depression did not seek help (Blumenthal et al, 1996). The non-help seekers did not consider the episode serious or recognize it at as an illness and believed that they could handle the episode themselves. The relationship between depression literacy and behavioral change, such as help-seeking, or obedience to antidepressants among patients, was examined in various studies (Goldney, et al, 2001; Fisher et al, 2003; Blumenthal et al, 1996; Sirey et al, 2001; Thompson, Hunt, & Issakidis, 2004). All of these studies support the conclusion that patients lack of knowledge of and have negative attitudes toward
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