Relationship Between Mental Health Literacy Level and Treatment Motivation in Alcohol and Drug Addicts

The analysis revealed a statistically significant, albeit weak, positive correlation between the participants' Mental Health Literacy Scale-Knowledge of How to Seek Mental Health Information subscale mean score and both their total Treatment Motivation Questionnaire score and their Interpersonal Help-Seeking subscale mean scores (r=0.284). Recent studies have shown that mental health literacy has a multifaceted relationship with people seeking help from mental health services, receiving treatment services, treatment motivation, helping someone with mental illness, and stigma (Çam and Çuhadar 2011). [...]mental health disorders progress and people generally seek help when they reach advanced stages of the disease, increasing the rates of emergency service applications and hospitalizations related to mental health disorders. Only half of people with any mental health disorder (i.e. schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, depression) and addiction use mental health services (Bjørnsen et al. 2017).