Cross-cultural comparison of mental illness stigma and help-seeking attitudes: a multinational population-based study from 16 Arab countries and 10,036 individuals.
Feten Fekih RomdhaneHaitham JahramiManel StambouliAmthal AlhuwailahMai HelmyHanaa Ahmed Mohamed ShuwiekhCheikh Mohamed Fadel Mohamed LemineEqbal RadwanJuliann SaquibNazmus SaquibMirna FawazBtissame ZarrouqAbdallah Y NaserSahar ObeidSouheil HallitMaan SalehSanad HaiderSuhad Daher-NashifLahmer MiloudManal BadrasawiAyman Hamdan-MansourMariapaola BarbatoAisha BakhietNajat SayemSamir AdawiFatheya GreinWissal CherifNasr ChalghafMariwan HusniMaha M AlrasheedMajda CheourPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2022)
Interventions aiming at improving help-seeking attitudes and behaviors and promoting early access to care need to be culturally tailored, and congruent with public beliefs about mental illnesses and their causations.