Table 3.

Items and categories developed for the Attitudes section of the ADKQ (with sample responses used to categorize)

Category and sample responses	n (%) Ever endorsed
16. If you thought that you or a friend was depressed would you encourage him/her to ask for help?
17. Who would you ask for help?
Family: “Parent/Guardian”; Family Member”	5,065 (59.4 %)
Mental Health/Medical Professional: “Counselor”; “Psychiatrist”, Mental Health Provider, Doctor, Other Health Provider”	4,072 (47.8 %)
School-Based Adults: “Teacher”; “School Nurse”; “Other School Personnel”	2,182 (25.6 %)
Peers: “Friend”; “Peers/Classmates”	1,344 (15.8 %)
Miscellaneous
”Adult”	2,346 (28.6 %)
”Someone you can trust/who can help/who listens”	479 (5.6 %)
”Clergy”	80 (0.9 %)
”Hotline”	25 (0.3 %)
”Other”	181 (2.1 %)
18. What would stop you or make it difficult for you to get help for yourself or a friend?
Emotional/embarrassment/stigma
“You might be embarrassed, thinking it doesn’t happen to everyone”; “Awkward topic to talk about”; “Scared of what people think”; “Embarrassment that I’d have to admit it; embarrassed for others to know”; “Knowing that people would make fun of me/them”	3,724 (43.7 %)
Social/interpersonal
“Fear of breaking my friend’s trust”; “My friend getting mad”; “Peer pressure”; “Wouldn’t want to get into their business if they didn’t want me to”; “I don’t want to break a promise to my friend”	3,341 (39.2 %)
Depression/treatment issues
“Treatment may not work”; “I have no one to go to for help”; “No one can help…don’t want help”; “Side-effects of medicine”	3,923 (46.0 %)
Nothing should get in the way	754 (8.8 %)
19. If your friend tells you that he/she is depressed and asks you to keep it a secret because no one else knows, what would you do?
Tell someone	5,477 (64.2 %)
Keep it a secret	3,146 (36.9 %)

Item 16 is dichotomous and therefore was not included in the coding analyses