Table 3.
Frequencies of recommendations where to seek help with means, mean difference with 95% confidence intervals and level of significance for each vignette and personal or institutional help-seeking option
| Vignette | Response category | Schizophrenia | Depression | Mean differences with CI’s | T-test | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal or institutional treatment option | %a | Meana | %b | Meanb | |||
| Psychiatrist | Recommend | 81.9 | 68.3 | − 0.336 (− 0.492; − 0.179) | p < .001 | ||
| Undecided | 11.6 | 1.80 | 18.2 | 2.13 | |||
| Unfavorable | 6.5 | 13.3 | |||||
| Psychotherapist | Recommend | 81.8 | 79.4 | − 0.149 (− 0.280; − 0.019) | p < .05 | ||
| Undecided | 14.2 | 1.82 | 11.3 | 1.97 | |||
| Unfavorable | 4.0 | 9.3 | |||||
| General practitioner | Recommend | 74.6 | 70.5 | − 0.069 (− 0.218; 0.081) | n. s. | ||
| Undecided | 17.1 | 2.03 | 18.6 | 2.10 | |||
| Unfavorable | 8.3 | 10.9 | |||||
| Person of trust | Recommend | 71.8 | 81.3 | 0.158 (0.033; 0.283) | p < .05 | ||
| Undecided | 22.2 | 2.14 | 15.0 | 1.98 | |||
| Unfavorable | 6.0 | 3.7 | |||||
| Rehabilitation facility | Recommend | 60.2 | 64.1 | 0.102 (− 0.040; 0.244) | n. s. | ||
| Undecided | 26.8 | 2.44 | 26.3 | 2.33 | |||
| Unfavorable | 13.0 | 9.6 | |||||
| Health authority/department | Recommend | 47.8 | 47.5 | − 0.042 (− 0.214; 0.130) | n. s. | ||
| Undecided | 27.5 | 2.67 | 28.6 | 2.71 | |||
| Unfavorable | 24.7 | 23.9 | |||||
| Self-help group | Recommend | 48.7 | 56.9 | 0.139 (− 0.035; 0.313) | n. s. | ||
| Undecided | 27.3 | 2.67 | 22.8 | 2.53 | |||
| Unfavorable | 24.0 | 20.3 | |||||
| Self | Recommend | 47.3 | 63.2 | 0.382 (0.180; 0.583) | p < .001 | ||
| Undecided | 22.5 | 2.80 | 19.2 | 2.42 | |||
| Unfavorable | 30.2 | 17.6 | |||||
| Internet | Recommend | 26.5 | 31.4 | 0.206 (0.027; 0.385) | p < .05 | ||
| Undecided | 32.4 | 3.30 | 35.9 | 3.10 | |||
| Unfavorable | 41.1 | 32.7 | |||||
| Natural health healer | Recommend | 10.6 | 6.0 | − 0.301 (− 0.460; − 0.142) | p < .001 | ||
| Undecided | 15.0 | 4.17 | 9.4 | 4.47 | |||
| Unfavorable | 74.4 | 84.6 | |||||
| Priest | Recommend | 7.9 | 5.6 | − 0.145 (− 0.298; 0.008) | n. s. | ||
| Undecided | 15.8 | 4.25 | 12.9 | 4.40 | |||
| Unfavourable | 76.3 | 81.5 | |||||
| Feng Shui master | Recommend | 6.3 | 4.9 | − 0.095 (− 0.243; 0.053) | n. s. | ||
| Undecided | 13.1 | 4.38 | 11.1 | 4.47 | |||
| Unfavorable | 80.6 | 84.0 | |||||
| Contact ancestor via medium | Recommend | 3.4 | 3.4 | − 0.056 (− 0.184; 0.071) | n. s. | ||
| Undecided | 11.3 | 4.54 | 9.2 | 4.60 | |||
| Unfavorable | 85.3 | 87.4 | |||||
Means defined by a 5-point Likert scale with anchor points from 1 = strongly recommend to 5 = never recommend
aVignette schizophrenia
bVignette depression