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O’Callaghan, E., Turner, N., Renwick, L., Jackson, D., Sutton, M., Foley, S.D., McWilliams, S., Behan, C., Fetherstone, A. and Kinsella, A. (2010) First episode psychosis and the trail to secondary care: Help-seeking and health-system delays. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 45, 381-391. doi:10.1007/s00127-009-0081-x

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• TITLE: Schizophrenia knowledge and attitudes toward help-seeking among Japanese fathers and mothers of high school students

  AUTHORS: Hatsumi Yoshii, Yuichiro Watanabe, Hideaki Kitamura, Kouhei Akazawa

  KEYWORDS: Schizophrenia; Attitude; Help-Seeking; Fathers; Mothers

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.5 No.3A, March 29, 2013

  ABSTRACT: The prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia are nonspecific and include social withdrawal, sleeplessness, decreased desire, and loss of concentration. Schizophrenia outcomes might be improved if greater therapeutic effort was focused on people with prodromal symptoms. To hasten help-seeking for schizophrenia, we developed a schizophrenia education program for families of patients. Help-seeking and schizophrenia attitudes and knowledge were analyzed among Japanese parents (666 fathers and 613 mothers) of high school students by using the Social Distance Scale-Japanese version, the Link Devaluation-Discrimination Measure and our own questions on help-seeking and schizophrenia knowledge. Statistical analysis included cross-tabulation, the χ2 test, and multiple regression analysis. Most (97.5%) fathers were aged 40 - 59 years; most (78.3%) mothers were aged 40 - 49 years. There was a significant difference between fathers and mothers in basic knowledge of schizophrenia (P 0.05). When asked what treatment they would seek for a child with sleeplessness or social withdrawal, fathers and mothers significantly differed in seeking help medical care at a department of psychosomatic medicine (P differed between fathers and mothers (P = 0.001). In an analysis of parental response to a child with sleepiness and social withdrawal, multiple regression analysis revealed that fathers and mothers significantly differed in the likelihood of seeking help at a department of psychosomatic medicine and from a school nurse and in the likelihood of not seeking help (P