Objectives. To identify the factors responsible for the duration of the period from the onset of mental impairments to seeking medical help. Materials and methods. A total of 166 in-patients with neurotic disorders associated with stress and somatoform and affective disorders were studied. Clinical-psychopathological, history-taking, and psychometric methods were used. Results and conclusions. These studies established that a model of the time to seeking medical help by patients with neurotic disorders was multifactorial in nature and was characterized by strong multiple correlations (r = 0.85). The model developed here predicts the time to seeking medical help both individually for each patient and for the group of patients, and this may provide the grounds for creating a program to accelerate medical help-seeking.
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Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 119, No. 1, Iss. 2, Depression, pp. 17–21, January, 2019.
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Malygin, Y.V., Tsygankov, D.B., Malygin, V.L. et al. A Multifactorial Model of the Medical Help-Seeking Behavior of Patients with Depressive and Neurotic Disorders. Neurosci Behav Physi 50, 30–34 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-019-00864-3
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