Mediating roles of perceived stigma and mental health literacy in the relationship between school climate and help-seeking behavior in Indonesian adolescents.
PLoS One
; 19(5): e0298017, 2024.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38820380
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
This study aimed to investigate whether perceived stigma and mental health literacy play mediating roles in the correlation between school climate and help-seeking behavior in Indonesian adolescents.METHODS:
We used cross-sectional study design that recruited 760 Indonesian adolescents of age 16-19 years. We used convenience sampling from July to September 2019. Bivariate analysis was used to investigate the association of demographic characteristics with help-seeking behavior. Mediation analysis was employed to explore the mediating roles of mental health literacy and perceived stigma on the relationship between school climate and help-seeking behavior.RESULTS:
Findings indicated that ethnicity, family income, and father's educational level were significantly associated (p < 0.05) with help-seeking behavior in Indonesian adolescents. Furthermore, perceived stigma and mental health literacy sequentially showed partial mediating roles in the relationship between school climate and help-seeking behavior (indirect effect 0.004; 95% CI 0.001, 0.010). Our mediating model indicated that a high level of school climate was associated with low perceived stigma (b = -0.11, p < 0.001) and high mental health literacy (b = 0.28, p < 0.001) and higher help-seeking behavior (b = 0.14, p < 0.001).CONCLUSION:
Our study discovered novel insight of help-seeking behavior mechanism among adolescent by serial mediation test. Supportive school climate is necessary to achieve adequate help-seeking behavior. In addition, taking into account of student's perceived stigma and mental health literacy in promoting help-seeking behavior is also important.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Schools
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Mental Health
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Health Literacy
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Social Stigma
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Help-Seeking Behavior
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
PLoS One
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article