The study focuses on the mental health help-seeking behaviour of young adults. It proposes a Socio-technical Ecosystem Framework for mental health care, which includes technological, interpersonal, community, and societal level resources. The research identified two types of support systems for help-seeking, single-resource and multi-resource support systems. These resources support young adults’ help-seeking via three mechanisms, care-giving, care-mediating, and care-outreaching, forming various pathways to care. The study also identifies barriers to resource use at each level and the general challenges in finding a support system. The findings contribute to a conceptual framework to categorize mental health care and identify challenges in the pathways to care.
Publication date: 19 Jan 2024
Project Page: https://doi.org/10.1145/nnnnnnn.nnnnnnn
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.08994
