PSY 361 Barriers to Utilizing Mental Health Services
PSY 361 Barriers to Utilizing Mental Health Services
Barriers to Utilizing Mental Health Services. Some of our text reading this week focuses on the utilization of health care services and the different settings in which these services are delivered.
Using the Ashford Library, search the ProQuest database to identify at minimum one peer-reviewed article published within the last five years that focuses on one of the factors listed below in terms of its potential for creating a barrier to the utilization of mental health services:
Gender (sex) as a barrier to the utilization of mental health services
Lifespan (age) as a barrier to the utilization of mental health services
One comorbidity or multiple comorbidities (additional diagnoses either
mental/psychiatric/behavioral/developmental or physical) as a barrier/barriers to the utilization of mental
health services
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Severity of mental or physical illness as a barrier to the utilization of mental health services
Sociocultural factors (financial, transportation, cultural) as a barrier/barriers to the utilization of mental
health services
Option A: Diabetes Mellitus and the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change
Focus of the Final Paper
The course of illness can be influenced by biological, psychological, and/or social factors covering a broad range of topics that include stress, coping, and behaviors that either promote health and prevent illness, or contribute to the development of clinical problems. Health and wellness are important to our daily lives and this is true even in the context of being diagnosed with a chronic illness such as diabetes mellitus. The interplay between emotions, cognitive, and behavioral/physical factors can affect all aspects of health and illness.
Individual differences such as culture, ethnicity, lifestyle, religion, gender, identity development, financial status, and social support should be considered when analyzing the individual’s response to a chronic illness. Numerous research studies have investigated the impact of one or more of these factors in terms of the effect on chronic disease outcomes.
These outcomes can include symptom management and/or progression of the severity of the disease.
Explanatory theories often describe factors that contribute to health problems, or interfere with prevention activities, and thus provide targets for change. One such theory is the Health Belief Model (HBM) which addresses perceptions of the health problem.
These perceptions include the degree of threat in terms of susceptibility and severity, any benefits to be obtained by avoiding the perceived threat, and various internal (e.g., self-efficacy) and external (e.g., barriers to care) factors that influence the individual’s decision to act. Other theories emphasize motivations that influence a continuum of stages of behavioral change.
The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change is a theory of this type. The response to chronic illness and the illness experience itself can be described by these models. In managing chronic disease, there are coping strategies and behavior changes that support optimal outcomes and therapeutic interventions can be designed for greater effectiveness by using these two models.