Help-seeking experiential beliefs, which is one type of help-seeking belief, are incorporated into certain medical/health/social scientific theories used to studying health services treatment access. When studying the behavior of seeking help from a mental health professional, “experiential beliefs” is shorthand for “experiential beliefs related to seeking help from a mental health professional.”
Like other mental health help-seeking belief measures, measures of mental health help-seeking experiential beliefs are uncommon. We have been unable to find a measure of mental health help-seeking experiential beliefs in the published literature.
Our research team published a paper (Hammer et al., 2024) that developed and documented psychometric evidence of validity for a battery of mental health help seeking measures, for use with a specific group of humans (i.e., undergraduate engineering students studying in the United States). A copy of the mental health help-seeking experiential beliefs measure from that battery can be found in the supplemental material associated with that 2024 article.
Visit the beliefs measures webpage to learn more about the population-specific nature of beliefs measures and what that means for professionals wishing to use such measures in their work.