Table 3.

Predictors of intending to seek help from informal help-providers examined using simultaneous binary logistic regression (n = 3760)

Predictor variable	Friend	Parent	Family	All types of informal help
	Adjusted OR (99% CI)	Adjusted OR (99% CI)	Adjusted OR (99% CI)	Adjusted OR (99% CI)
Gender (reference group: Male)
Female		2.22*** (1.68, 2.94)		1.51*** (1.23, 1.86)
Faculty (reference group: Medicine)
Arts and Education	0.61** (0.41, 0.92) [Equiv OR = 1.64]			0.60** (0.41, 0.90) [Equiv OR = 1.67]
Management and Finance	0.65** (0.45, 0.96) [Equiv OR = 1.54]	0.59** (0.38, 0.93) [Equiv OR = 1.69]	0.46** (0.22, 0.97) [Equiv OR = 2.17]	0.61** (0.42, 0.89) [Equiv OR = 1.64]
Computer	0.62** (0.40, 0.94) [Equiv OR = 1.61]			0.66** (0.44, 0.98) [Equiv OR = 1.52]
Year of study (reference group: 1st year)
3rd Year		0.70** (0.49, 0.98) [Equiv OR = 1.43]
Whether those who personally experienced problem sought help (reference group: help not sought)
Tried first but got help later	1.74*** (1.25, 2.43)	1.95*** (1.25, 3.05)		1.83*** (1.33, 2.52)
Help sought	1.91*** (1.28, 2.84)	1.76*** (1.05, 2.98)		1.94*** (1.32, 2.86)
Recognition of problem (reference group: not recognised)
Recognised using mental health-related labels (excluding the label “depression”)		1.33** (1.02, 1.74)
Stigma Scale Scores
Dangerous-Undesirable Scale	0.95** (0.90, 1.00) [IQOR = 0.90] [Equiv OR = 1.11]	0.93** (0.87, 0.99) [IQOR = 0.86] [Equiv OR = 1.16]		0.94** (0.89, 0.98) [IQOR = 0.87] [Equiv OR = 1.15]
Social Distance Scale	0.94*** (0.90, 0.97) [IQOR = 0.77] [Equiv OR = 1.30]			0.96** (0.93,1.00) [IQOR = 0.86] [Equiv OR = 1.16]
Nagelkerke R2	0.04	0.10	0.05	0.06

^** p < .01; ^*** p < .001

Notes

Interquartile ORs abbreviated as IQOR

ORs < 1 were converted into 1/OR and have been presented as Equiv OR

Only adjusted ORs for the variables which were found to be significant predictors of the undergraduates’ intentions to seek informal help have been provided