Hornblow A R, Bushnell J A, Wells J E, Joyce P R, Oakley-Browne M A
Department of Community Health and General Practice, Christchurch School of Medicine.
N Z Med J. 1990 Sep 12;103(897):415-7.
Use of health and mental health services by the 1498 adults in the Christchurch psychiatric epidemiology study is reported. Fourteen percent of the sample had visited a health service for help with mental health problems over the preceding six months. Of those with identified psychiatric disorder during the last six months, only 29% had over that period visited a health service or professional for a mental health consultation though 75% had sought health care. Mental health consultations were more commonly with general practitioners than with mental health specialists, the latter seeing only one in seven of those with recent disorder. Those who at some point in their lives had not sought help, even though they or others had considered it necessary, reported the reasons to be attitudinal rather than to do with practical concerns such as finance, time or access to care.
报告了克赖斯特彻奇精神病流行病学研究中1498名成年人对健康和心理健康服务的使用情况。在之前的六个月里，14%的样本曾因心理健康问题前往医疗服务机构寻求帮助。在过去六个月中被确诊患有精神疾病的人里，只有29%在那段时间里曾前往医疗服务机构或专业人士处进行心理健康咨询，不过75%的人曾寻求过医疗护理。心理健康咨询更常是与全科医生进行，而非心理健康专家，后者接待的近期患病者仅占七分之一。那些在人生的某个阶段尽管自己或他人认为有必要却未曾寻求帮助的人，称原因是态度方面的，而非与资金、时间或获得护理等实际问题有关。
