Murphy Dominic, Hunt Elizabeth, Luzon Olga, Greenberg Neil
King's Centre for Military Health Research, King's College London, London, UK.
Department of Clinical Psychology, Royal Holloway University, London, UK.
Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2014 Feb 17;5. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v5.21759. eCollection 2014.
To examine the factors which facilitate UK military personnel with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to engage in help-seeking behaviours.
The study recruited active service personnel who were attending mental health services, employed a qualitative design, used semi-structured interview schedules to collect data, and explored these data using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).
Five themes emerged about how participants were able to access help; having to reach a crisis point before accepting the need for help, overcoming feelings of shame, the importance of having an internal locus of control, finding a psychological explanation for their symptoms and having strong social support.
This study reported that for military personnel who accessed mental health services, there were a number of factors that supported them to do so. In particular, factors that combated internal stigma, such as being supported to develop an internal locus of control, appeared to be critical in supporting military personnel to engage in help-seeking behaviour.
探讨促使患有创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的英国军事人员寻求帮助行为的因素。
该研究招募了正在接受心理健康服务的现役人员，采用质性设计，使用半结构化访谈提纲收集数据，并运用解释现象学分析（IPA）对这些数据进行探究。
出现了五个关于参与者如何能够获得帮助的主题；在接受需要帮助之前必须达到危机点、克服羞耻感、拥有内控点的重要性、为自己的症状找到心理学解释以及拥有强大的社会支持。
本研究报告称，对于那些接受心理健康服务的军事人员而言，有若干因素支持他们这样做。特别是，诸如被支持培养内控点等对抗内在污名的因素，在支持军事人员参与求助行为方面似乎至关重要。
