Skip to main content

Advertisement

Log in

Help-Seeking by Parental Caregivers of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Dual Diagnosis

  • Original Article
  • Published:
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This study examined the roles of stigma and of enabling factors in help-seeking by parental caregivers of individuals with intellectual disabilities and dual diagnosis. Questionnaires were completed by 195 family caregivers. Lower family stigma was related to higher personal enabling factors (e.g. knowledge about services and previous experience in seeking help), which in turn was related to higher help-seeking behaviors. Higher professional enabling factors (e.g. attitude of the professional, services in the vicinity) were related to higher intentions to seek help, which were related to higher help-seeking behaviors. Professionals can help families achieve a greater sense of self-efficacy in their own help-seeking process by providing them with knowledge about services and facilitating a more positive experience in the process.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4

Similar content being viewed by others

References

Download references

Acknowledgements

This research was supported financially by the State of Lower-Saxony, Hannover, Germany (ZN 2918). We warmly thank the families who participated in the study. We also thank the Ministry of Education, the Disabilities’ Administration of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Social Services, The Outpatient Unit for Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry at Schneider Children’s Medical Center and Beit Issie Shapiro for their help in recruitment. Finally, we thank all the research assistants who made this study possible.

Funding

This study was funded by the State of Lower-Saxony, Hannover, Germany (Grant Number ZN 2918).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Shirli Werner.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Ethical Approval

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Informed Consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

Additional information

Publisher’s Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Werner, S., Stern, I., Roth, D. et al. Help-Seeking by Parental Caregivers of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Dual Diagnosis. Adm Policy Ment Health 46, 321–333 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-018-00915-w

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-018-00915-w

Keywords

Navigation