ABSTRACT
Mental
health is a desirable state globally and a requirement for optimum performance
in any area of human endeavour. Studies have shown that a lot of people have
one mental challenge or the other and that most people are unwilling to use
mental healthcare services. There are
indications that librarians in private universities may not be immune to
factors that predispose to mental health challenges. Moreover, previous studies
have focused on the factors that determine people’s willingness to use mental
healthcare services without adequate consideration for health information
rights awareness, perceived stigmatization and personal factors. The study
examined the extent to which Health Information Rights Awareness (HIRA),
Perceived Stigmatization (PS) and Personal Factors (PF) predict Willingness to
use Mental Healthcare Services (WMHS) among librarians in private universities
in South-West, Nigeria.
The
survey design was used for the study. The population comprised 349 librarians
in 22 private universities in South-west, Nigeria. The census was used to
include the entire population in the study. The instrument was a validated questionnaire. The reliability test of
the variables ranged between α = 0.63 - 0.74. Data were analysed using
binary logistic and multiple regression.
The
findings showed that health information rights awareness significantly
predicted willingness to use mental healthcare services among the respondents (R2 = 0.334, p<.05). Also, perceived
stigmatization significantly influenced the use of mental healthcare services (R2 = 0.176,
p<.05). Furthermore, personal factors significantly predicted willingness to
use mental healthcare with females less likely to use mental healthcare
services (β
= -0.043, p<.05). Respondents below 40 years (β = -0.172, p<.05);those
with salary below N100, 000 (β= -0.020, p<.05) and those with higher
education (β= -0.505, p<.05) were more willing to use mental healthcare
services.
The
study concluded that although health information rights awareness is high among
academic librarians in South-West, Nigeria. Perceived stigmatization and
personal factors such as education, age and gender could prevent them from
using mental healthcare services. The study recommended that government
should formulate and enforce anti-stigma policies and ensure strict adherence
to ethical guidelines in management of health information by mental healthcare
providers. Also, promotional efforts for mental healthcare services utilization
should target women, youth and people with low level of education. Finally,
libraries should create awareness on the need for mental health services
utilization.
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Information is data that is collected
and organized for users in specific contexts. Information empowers people to make
reasonable decisions; hence, it is an important resource for health
professionals who make decisions that have implications on the physical and
mental well-being of others. Health
facilities such as hospitals, healthcare centers, medical nursing homes,
medical laboratories, pharmacies and drug stores require information to manage
patients’ health and provide them with the best possible treatments (Friedman, 2011). Health information can be described
as any information collected in relation to health, disability or health
service received by a patient. It includes patients’ genetic information, notes
of symptoms or diagnosis and treatment, specialist’s reports and test results,
appointment and billing details, prescriptions, pharmaceutical purchases and
other information relating to patient’s race, sexuality or religion (Office
of the Australian Information Commissioner [OAIC], 2015).
Enlightening people with health
information rights in hospital is much more problematic than preventing
associated risk such as hackers, identity theft and unauthorized access. Although
health information may be useful to assess patient’s state of health, it also
has the potential to appraise performance of health services. For instance,
overreliance on the security of health information can lead to grievous errors
if a patient information contains false information.Making health information
rights understood to remote people necessarily makes them more reachable and
available to amend their information. People need to be educated and be aware,
just like healthcare professionals,of health information rights in any
preferable format for efficient and effective health information use. Both patients
and guardians need health information to adhere to treatment that will make
healthcare service more productive. Similarly, health insurers, government
health agencies, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and other agencies
need to be aware of health information rights in order to properly process
claims and pay for healthcare.
Personal
health information is not utilized to its full potential to support effective
and efficient care due to low level of health information rights awareness
among people. A lot of factors in the society underscore the need for intervention
addressing low health information rights awareness. We are a mobile population
requiring access to vital personal health information in different locations. Personal
health information is of sensitive nature and must be managed with care. However,
this information often has to be shared among healthcare providers or disclosed
to others outside health services for the patient’s benefit. For example, many Nigerians receive
treatment in very different locations seasonally, and increasingly prevalent
mental health challenges, like schizophrenia, personality disorder, depression,
stress disorder, can only be managed by mental healthcare services. Many
obvious patient safety and quality issues arise in the handover of patients
among providers that fail to share necessary information. Natural disasters
displace individuals to locales with unfamiliar providers and can destroy or
render inaccessible existing health information repositories. Securing patients’ health
information and protecting their rights to privacy and confidentiality thus
becomes a major challenge for healthcare providers especially as medical
information is increasingly accessible in electronic form. The loss, misuse,
modification or unauthorized access to sensitive health information can
adversely affect the welfare of an individual and this is particularly true of
health information related to a person’s mental health status.
Today, people are plagued by anxiety,
depression and crippling self-admiration. With this on the rise is an enormous
proportion of Nigerians likely to fit the criteria for a mental disorder at
some point during their lifetimes. But the questions are, is the state of mental health in Nigeria truly worse, or are we
simply diagnosing disorders that were once unknown or is the millennial
generation actually more depressed than the generations that lived through two
world wars? The answers aren’t exactly simple.One problem with quantifying the
change in the incidence of mental health problems or challenges over time comes
from simply defining mental health. Mental health is not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of well-being in which
an individual realizes his or her own abilities to cope with the normal
stresses of life (WHO, 2014). Mental health and well-being are fundamental to
our collective and individual ability as humans to think, emote, interact with
each other, earn a living and enjoy life. The level of mental health of a
person at any point in time can be determined by multiple social, psychological
and biological factors. For example in academic setting, persistent
socio-economic pressures of greater job insecurity,
constant demand for results and an increasingly marketised higher education
system are recognized risks to mental health challenges. University counselling staff and workplace health experts
have seen a steady increase in numbers seeking help for mental health problems
over the past decade, with research indicating nearly half of academics show symptoms of psychological
distress in UK (Shaw & Ward, 2014). In addition to psychological
distress is personality factors and prolonged stress. Stressors can be in the form of
heavy workload, speed of work, working conditions, poorly designed environment,
interpersonal discord with supervisors, colleagues, and discrimination based on
age, sex and frustration related to the social organization of the workplace (Aldwin,
2007). Excessive job
demands can result in excessive stress. Also, the interference of the home front with work place demands
sometimes constitutes stress for employees especially where the staff concerned
is not able to manage both effectively.
Mental health challenge
is
not confined to certain geo-polities or social strata.It is an issue that has
the potential to affect anyone, male or female, young or old, rich or poor (Steel,
Marnane, Iranpour, Chey, Jackson, Patel & Silove, 2014). It is indeed
everyone’s business. This fact validates mental health challenge as a complex,
yet current and important issue for people and the workplace in its entirety.
This is because universities do not exist in a vacuum, workers are not
recruited from outer space, but from the environment within which institution
exist. Hence, the indices of mental health pertaining to Nigeria, should be of
concern to Nigerian workplaces. Beyond this, the workplace itself is an
environment that poses significant impact on mental health (World Health
Organization and International Labour Organization, 2012). Furthermore, it is becoming clear through
research that most mental health challenges, including depression,
stress disorders, social phobia, schizophrenia, eating disorders, personality
disorders and addictive behaviours are caused by a combination of biological, psychological
and environmental factors (Neil, 2010). Environmental stressors, such as
death of loved ones, divorce, a dysfunctional family life, feelings of
inadequacy, low self-esteem, anxiety, anger, loneliness, changing jobs or
schools, midlife job crisis, work-related stress, technology, socio-cultural
expectations and substance abuse can trigger mental health challenges. In
most cases, symptoms can be managed with a combination of medications and
counseling otherwise known as psychotherapy (Jack-Ide, Uys & Middleton, 2012).
In Nigeria, mental healthcare services
are mostly provided in Federal
Neuro-Psychiatric Hospitals. Currently, mental healthcare services are offered at eight
dedicated facilities in Abeokuta, Benin, Calabar, Enugu, Kaduna, Lagos,
Maiduguri and Sokoto by a multidisciplinary team comprising psychiatrists,
psychologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers and
counsellors and nursing practitioners. Treatments offered include
evidence-based drug therapy, individual psychiatric consultations and
psychotherapy, group therapy and, where needed, physical therapy (Jack-Ide,
Makoro & Azibiri, 2013).
Unfortunately, studies have shown that most people with mental health
challenges do not use mental healthcare services because of their cultural
sensitivity, religious beliefs, lack of funds, coverage of mental healthcare
services and stigmatization (Jack-Ide & Uys, 2013).
Mental health stigma is even
widespread across the world, at least in part, because it is given a low
priority (Wallace, 2010). Perhaps surprisingly, stigmatizing beliefs about
individuals with mental health challenges are held by a broad range of
individuals within society, regardless of whether they know someone with a
mental health challenge, have a family member with a mental health challenge,
or have a good knowledge and experience of mental health problems (Moses, 2010;
Wallace, 2010). Mental health stigma can be divided into two distinct types: social stigma is
characterized by prejudicial attitudes and discriminating behaviour directed
towards individuals with mental health challenges as a result of the psychiatric label they have been
given. In contrast, perceived stigma or self-stigma is the internalizing by the mental
health sufferer of their perceptions of discrimination (Link, Cullen, Struening
& Shrout, 2009), and perceived stigma can significantly affect feelings of
shame and lead to poorer
treatment outcomes (Perlick, Rosenheck, Clarkin, Sirey et al., 2011).
In relation to social
stigma, studies have suggested that stigmatizing attitudes towards people with
mental health challenges are widespread and commonly held (Bryne, 2007;
Heginbotham, 2008). In a survey of adults in the Niger Delta region, Jack-Ide,
Makoro and Azibiri (2013) found that the most commonly held belief was that
people with mental health challenges were dangerous (especially those with schizophrenia,
alcoholism and drug dependence), were
self-inflicted (people with eating disorders and substance abuse), and were
generally hard to talk to. People tended to hold these negative beliefs
regardless of their age, regardless of what knowledge they had of mental health
challenges, and regardless of whether they knew someone who had a mental health
challenge. Stigma embraces both prejudicial attitudes and discriminating
behaviour towards individuals with mental health challenges, and the social
effects of this include exclusion, poor social support, poorer subjective
quality of life, and low self-esteem (Livingston
& Boyd, 2010). As well as it’s affect on the quality of daily living,
stigma also has a detrimental effect on treatment outcomes, and so hinders
efficient and effective recovery from mental health challenges (Perlick,
Rosenheck, Clarkin, Sirey et al., 2011). In particular, self-stigma is correlated
with poorer vocational outcomes (employment success) and increased social
isolation (Yanos, Roe &
Lysaker, 2010). These factors alone represent significant reasons for
attempting to eradicate mental health stigma and ensure that social inclusion
is facilitated and recovery can be efficiently achieved.
Individuals who are shamed, bullied or discriminated against based on
preconceived judgments of their appearance, disabilities or lifestyles are
victims of stigmatization.Stigmatized
individuals fall outside the society definition of "normal." Examples
include prostitutes, mentally ill patients, drug addicts or people with
physical deformities. Stigmatization is generally
measured as stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination (Collins, Wong, Cerully, Schultz & Eberhart,
2012). Stigmatization can prevent people from properly seeking
knowledge, advice, treatment and care that can enhance their mental health.
Another factor that could affect the use
of mental healthcare service is low awareness of health information rights.
Although, health information rights is not specifically defined under any of
the laws that apply to the health sector, however, the National Health Act
(NHA) 2014 makes reference to
health information rights of users of healthcare institutions. The NHA is the
first law that provides obligations of healthcare personnel and health
information rights of users of healthcare services in Nigeria (Federal Ministry
of Health, 2015). This Act
requires every healthcare provider to give users of healthcare services
relevant health information, keep and attach confidentiality to users’ health
information, impose restrictions on the disclosure of users’ health information
and set up control measures for preventing unauthorized access to users’ health
information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) of The United States
also provides important rights that everybody need to know about their health
information. In addition, the International Human Rights Law imposes two
obligations with respect to health information rights, which are: (i) states
must not only refrain from actions that would interfere with people’s rights to
health information, but also affirmatively take steps to ensure that
individuals are provided with health information, and (ii) must ensure that health
information is accessible and available to all on a non-discriminatory basis
(Institute for Information, Law and Policy, 2012).
Health information rights of people are
enshrined in the laws of countries. In Nigeria, consideration is given in NHA
that users of healthcare services should be given relevant information
pertaining to their health in a language that the user understands and in a
manner which takes into account the user's level of literacy. People need to be
educated to understand their health information rights, ask questions about
them and file a complaint if they think their rights are being denied or not
being protected (Afolayan, 2009). Having adequate awareness of health
information rights will empower people to be more in control of decisions
regarding their health and well-being. For example, individuals who know
their right to access or amend their health information are better able to
monitor chronic conditions, adhere to treatment plans, find and fix errors in
their health information and can track progress in wellness or disease management
programmes.
Health information rights includes
confidentiality and privacy of health information. Confidentiality is the right of an individual to have
personal identifiable information kept private (Osundina, 2014).
Confidentiality implies that the use, disclosure or release of personal health
information must be with the knowledge and consent of the individual.
Confidentiality ensures that personal health information given to a healthcare
provider is not disclosed to others unless the individual owner has given
specific permission for such release. Privacy is the right of an individual to
be let alone, free from observation or intrusion into personal private affairs
and the right to exercise control over certain personal health information. In
Nigeria, every
healthcare institution, including mental healthcare facilities have ethical and
legal responsibilities to uphold the privacy and confidentiality of people’s
health information obtained while providing care (Ukachi,
2007).
Incidentally,
a large
proportion of people using healthcare services are not aware of this health
information rights (Ogunrin, Ogunrin & Akerele, 2007). According to United Nations, Department of Economic and Social
Affairs(2015) and Sotubo (2015),
about 21million people out of 182million population of Nigeria suffer
mental health challenges that could have been prevented in mental healthcare
services with simple medications and healthy lifestyles (Acho, 2005). The
situation however, can be different if the populace are aware of their health
information rights and take advantage of it.
Librarians
in academic institutions are not exempted from stress. They are responsible for developing library collections,
providing access to information, and providing training on information retrieval
and use to students and faculty. Interestingly, these roles are constantly
evolving with technological advancements and the librarians are expected to
adapt their skills to meet the changing educational, social and technological
needs of their users (Bunge, 2010). In particular, librarians in private
universities are often expected to perform optimally in order to beat the stiff
competition in the higher educational sector even with minimal financial and
human resources. Private universities are established by Act of
government through the National Universities Commission. Private universities
are owned, funded and managed by participating individuals, agencies, and
corporate bodies other than government. The corporate bodies are mostly
religious organizations. Besides, private
universities have to justify their existence through high employee productivity
and high quality students’ output. This result-orientation invariably
translates to increased demand for high quality performance from their staff. These
combination of role expectations, has
helped to hype up the stress levels of academic librarians in private
universities (Al-Qallaf, 2006). Furthermore, the emergence of information communication
technology (ICT) in university libraries has brought unprecedented changes to the roles of librarians with
increasing demand on the mental and emotional resources of librarians, which in
turn result to technostress. Technostress is a state of mental and
physiological arousal observed in people who are heavily dependent on
technology to perform their work, and that occurs when people find their work
stimulating, but feel they do not have the necessary skills to cope with the
technology (Yuvaraj & Singh, 2015).
Laspinas (2015) stressed the two major consequences of
technostress which are frequently suffered by librarians, these are brain drain
and information overload. Thus, librarians can only overcome mental health challenge
that may be caused by technostress when they are ready and willing to use
mental healthcare services.
Willingness
to use mental healthcare services is a state of preparedness or readiness to
seek the professional
assistance and support provided by
mental healthcare providers in solving mental health challenges (Chandra&
Minkovitz, 2006). The willingness of a person to seek help is dependent
on three elements: recognition of the need for external assistance, readiness
for self-disclosure, and willingness to relinquish at least some degree of
control to an expert helper (Segal, Coolidge, Mincic & O’Riley, 2005).
Studies have established the various factors that determine people’s
willingness to use mental healthcare services, these are: stigma, proximity or
nearness to mental healthcare services, cost, expertise of care givers, ease of
access, type of services, severity of illness, poor
awareness, insufficient facilities and personal factors (Sellars, Garza,
Fryer & Thomas, 2010; Vanagas, 2011; Ohaeri
& Fido, 2010).
Personal
factors such as, gender, age, marital
status, low income status, low education and religion affiliation,
play considerable roles on people’s willingness to use mental healthcare
services, thereby making the mental health interventions and responses greatly
different across the country(Oladipo, 2015; Sellars, Garza Fryer & Thomas, 2010).
Gender
role is perceived as masculine and feminine. Females are known to be more
mentally inactive than males (Shehu, Yahaya, Onasanya, Ogunsakin &
Oniyangi, 2011). Gender differences in the use
of mental healthcare services are a long-standing concern for the Nigerian
mental healthcare system, and such differences have been documented in many
studies. For
example, research has shown that women are more willing to use healthcare
services than men, but the
willingness to use mental healthcare services by women and men may differ
according to the mental health challenge for which care is required(Azuh, Fayomi &
Ajayi 2015). Differences in age and marital
status also play considerable role on people’s willingness to use mental
healthcare. Older adults today encounter a number of mental health challenges
as they age and, on average, use a relatively large volume of mental healthcare
services. However, the older adult population is quite heterogeneous, with
individual members displaying an array of health statuses and needing a variety
of healthcare services. Therefore, older adults are more willing and exhibit
favourable intentions to use mental healthcare services than younger adults
(Abdulrahem, 2007). Older adults are
more willing to use mental healthcare services than younger groups. Although older adults vary greatly in
their demographic characteristics, which leads to differences in their demand for and willingness to
use of mental healthcare services. Furthermore, marital status
includes single, married, divorced, separated and widowed. The widowed and divorced are more susceptible to have
mental health challenges due to the loss and hurtful experiences of their loved
ones. Also, individuals with less-educational qualification and low income earners
are more likely to have mental health challenges; they tend to be less willing
to use mental healthcare services (Kessler, Chiu, Demler & Walters, 2005). From
experience religion is also conceived as a factor that influences
people’s willingness to use mental healthcare services. The three most
recognized religions in Nigeria today are Christianity, Islam, and Traditional
religions. In many religious belief systems,
mental health challenges are perceived as due to ancestors or by bewitchment
and religious advisors are viewed as having expertise in these areas, thereby
making many people not to use mental healthcare services.
Thus, the role of these aforementioned personal factors
together with health information rights awareness and perceived stigmatization
on willingness to use mental healthcare services require scholarly attention.
Therefore, this current study examined the extent to which health information
rights awareness, perceived stigmatization and personal factors influence
willingness to use mental healthcare services among librarians in private
universities in South-West,Nigeria.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Mental health is a desirable state
globally and a requirement for optimum performance in any area of human
endeavor. However, various biological, physical or environmental variables can
predispose people to mental health challenges that could undermine their
ability to meet up with expectations. Job-related stress has been indicated as
the major cause of mental health challenges in the academic environment.While
most studies focused on stress among the faculty, there are indications that
academic librarians may not also be immune to the mounting stress levels in the
academia. Perhaps, maintaining mental health is more challenging for librarians
in the performance-driven academic environment, because there is constant
demand for results and minimal resources are expected to yield optimum results(Shaw
& Ward, 2014). Besides, the constant
need to keep up with the fast pace of technological change, publish and present
academic papers and acquire multiple competencies pose a major threat to the
mental health of librarians. Unfortunately, the literature has established that
most people are not willing to use mental healthcare services for fear of being
stigmatized as crazy and unfit. Also, personal factors such as gender, age,
marital status, income status, educational status and religious affiliation
have been found to influence the decision to seek mental healthcare treatment
among various groups. Therefore, this study investigates
the influence of health information rights awareness,perceived stigmatization
and personal factors on willingness to use mental healthcare services among
librariansin private universities in South-West, Nigeria.
1.3 Objective
of the Study
The main objective of the study is to ascertain
the predictive ability of health information rights awareness, perceived
stigmatization and personal factors on willingness to use mental healthcare
services among librarians in private universities in South-West, Nigeria. The specificobjectives are to:
- find out the factors that can
predispose librarians to mental health challenges in private universities
in South-West, Nigeria;
- ascertain the experience of
mental health challenges among librarians in private universities in
South-West, Nigeria;
- ascertain level of health
information rights awareness among librarians in private universities in
South-West, Nigeria;
4.
find out the extent to which librarians
in private universities in South-West, Nigeria believe that mentally ill people
are stigmatized;
- find out the attitude of
librarians towards the use of mental healthcare services;
- find out the possible
hindrances to the use mental healthcare services among librarians in
private universities in South-West, Nigeria;
- ascertain the willingness of
librarians in private universities in South-West, Nigeria to use mental
healthcare services;
- determine the extent to which
health information rights awareness predicts willingness to use mental
healthcare services by librarians in private universities in South-West,
Nigeria;
- determine the extent to which
perceived stigmatization predictswillingness
to use mental healthcare services by librarians in private universities in
South-West, Nigeria and
- find out how personal factors
such as gender, age, marital status, income status, educational status and
religion affiliation predict willingness to use mental healthcare services
by librarians in private universities in South-West, Nigeria.
1.4 Research
Questions
This research is guided by the following
questions:
- What are the factors that
predispose librarians to mental health challenges in private universities
in South-West, Nigeria?
- What are the experiences of
librarians in private universities in South-West, Nigeria towards mental
health challenges?
- What is the level of health
information rightsawareness among librarians in private universities in
South-West, Nigeria?
- How is stigmatization of
mentally ill people perceived by librarians in private universities in
South-West, Nigeria?
- What is the attitude of librarians
in private universities in South-West, Nigeria towards the use of mental
healthcare services?
- What are the possible
hindrances to the use of mental healthcare services among librarians in
private universities in South-West, Nigeria?
- How willing are librarians in
private universities in South-West, Nigeria to make use of mental
healthcare services?
1.5 Hypotheses
The following null hypotheses were
tested at α = 0.05 level of significance:
Ho1:Health
information rightsawareness will not predict willingness to use mental
healthcare services among librarians in private universities in South-West,
Nigeria.
Ho2: Perceived stigmatization cannot predict willingness
to use mental healthcare services among librarians in private universities in
South-West, Nigeria.
Ho3: Personal
factors will not predict willingness to use mental healthcare services among
librarians in private universities in South-West, Nigeria.
1.6 Scope of the Study
This study investigates the influence of
information rights awareness, perceived stigmatization and personal factors on librarians’
willingness to use mental healthcare services in private universities in
South-West, Nigeria. In this study, health information rights was considered as
right to access personal health information, right to privacy, right to
confidentiality and right
to amend/correct personal health information; perceived stigmatization was
considered as stereotype, prejudice and discrimination;
while personal factors was considered as gender, age, marital status, income
status, education status and religion affiliation. Unlike most studies on
health information rights awareness, this study focused on non-patients, that
is people who are not necessarily registered users of any mental healthcare
service or institution. The study was conducted among professional and
para-professional librarians working in private universities in South-West,
Nigeria.
1.7 Significance of the Study
This study is important as it emphasized
the need for Nigerian Library Association, Nigerian Medical Association and
healthcare professionals to enlighten people, both young and old, on health
information rights through intensified awareness programs on media such as
television, radio and social media. Findings of this study will also educate
librarians and mental healthcare experts to knowmost conditions such as depression, job-related stress and stressful
life situation that contribute tomental health challenges.This study would
assist government to develop anti-stigma policies that will ensure effective
utilization of mental healthcare services. The findingsthat emerged from
this study will help Nigeria Medical Association to know the need to design health information policies and strategies
toincrease people’s willingness to use mental healthcare services.Finally, the findings of the study would serve as
useful reference study for students,
academia, psychiatrists, information professionals, health record officers and future research endeavours.
1.8 Operational Definition of Terms
Librarians:Librariansare
professionals and para-professionals employed to develop library collections,
provide access to information and provide training on information retrieval and
use to students and faculty in private universities in South-West, Nigeria.
Confidentiality:
This refers to the right of an individual to
have personally identifiable information kept private and not disclosed to
others unless the individual owner has given specific permission for such
release.
Health information: This
refers to any data about patients that is
in verbal, written or electronic form that conveys meaning and which could be
used in diagnosis, treatment or medical prescription.
Health Information
Rights: This refers to patients’ access, right to privacy,
right to confidentiality and right to amend/correct personal health
information.
Health Information
Rights Awareness: This refers to the level of knowledge or
enlightenment that librarians have about the right to access personal health
information, right to privacy, right to confidentiality and right to amend/correct their personal
health information.
Mental Healthcare
Services: These are the provisions meant to take care of
mental illness and other related mental health challenges.
Mental Health
Challenge: This refers to mental health conditions
that negatively affect people’s mood, feelings, thinking and behaviour.
Personal Factors:In
this study, it refers to individual factors such as age, gender, marital
status, income status, educational status and religion affiliation that
influence individual’s willingness to use mental healthcare services
Stigmatization: This
is defined in terms of stereotype, prejudice and discrimination against people
that seek mental healthcare services.
South-West, Nigeria:
This is one of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. It comprises six states
namely: Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo. It is a Yoruba language
speaking zone. It has the highest concentration of Universities and other
tertiary institutions in Nigeria; and it is the study area for this research.
Willingness to use
mental healthcare services: This refers to the readiness of
librarians to inquire about their mental state of health or seek treatment in
mental healthcare facilities.
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