Understanding farmers' barriers to health and mental health-related help-seeking: The development, factor structure, and reliability of the Farmer Help-Seeking Scale.
Gemma SkaczkowskiMelissa Joan HullAshleigh E SmithDollman JamesMartin JonesKate M GunnPublished in: The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association (2023)
The resulting 24-item Farmer Help-Seeking Scale provides a measure of help-seeking that is specifically designed to capture the unique context, culture, and attitudes that can interfere with farmers' help-seeking, and inform the development of strategies to increase health-service utilization in this at-risk group.