Understanding men's experiences of seeking help for mental health
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Understanding men’s experiences of seeking help for mental health difficulties.
IRAS ID
241601
Contact name
Joseph Cleasby
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Humber NHS Foundation Trust
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
NA, NA
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 1 months, 7 days
Research summary
The present study will analyse young men's (18-30) experience of help-seeking for a mental health difficulty from Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services. This study aims to recruit 6 to 8 young men who have accessed, or are currently accessing psychological therapy from an IAPT service. Men will be recruited from IAPT services within the region (East Riding and York/Selby). The men who volunteer for the study will attend an informal interview to discuss their experience of seeking help for their mental health difficulty. The purpose of this interview is to allow men to describe and make sense of their help-seeking experience. This interview will be transcribed and an analysis will be conducted to interpret their help seeking experience. Any male who speaks English, and is between the ages of 18 and 30 is able to attend the present study if they have accessed psychological support (therapy) from an IAPT service. The present study will use a qualitative approach to analyse the data. The method that will be used for the present study is called Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) - and attempts to interpret and make sense of people's experiences.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Bradford Leeds Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/YH/0232
Date of REC Opinion
9 Aug 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion