Causal beliefs of mental illness and its impact on help-seeking attitudes: a cross-sectional study among university students in Singapore.
Gregory Tee Hng TanShazana ShahwanChong Ming Janrius GohWei Jie OngEllaisha SamariEdimansyah AbdinKian Woon KwokSiow Ann ChongMythily SubramaniamPublished in: BMJ open (2020)
Findings from this study suggest that help-seeking attitudes might be influenced by causal beliefs, with personality attribution being the most impairing. Hence, to reduce the wide treatment gap in Singapore, anti-stigma interventions targeting young people could focus on addressing beliefs that attribute mental illness to the personality of the individual.