Divorce, divorce rates, and professional care seeking for mental health problems in Europe: a cross-sectional population-based study

Abstract: Background: Little is known about differences in professional care seeking based on marital status. The few existing studies show more professional care seeking among the divorced or separated compared to the married or cohabiting. The aim of this study is to determine whether, in a sample of the European general population, the divorced or separated seek more professional mental health care than the married or cohabiting, regardless of self-reported mental health problems. Furthermore, we examine whether two country-level features - the supply of mental health professionals and the country-level divorce rates - contribute to marital status differences in professional care-seeking behavior. Methods: We use data from the Eurobarometer 248 on mental well-being that was collected via telephone interviews. The unweighted sample includes 27,146 respondents (11,728 men and 15,418 women). Poisson hierarchical regression models were estimated to examine whether the divorced or separated ha

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: BMC Public Health ; 10 (2010) ; 1-12

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2010
• Creator: Bracke, Piet F. ; Colman, Elien ; Symoens, Sara ; Praag, Lore van

Further information

• DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-224
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-73919-1
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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