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Youth Well-Being: Strengthening mental health and human capital in a social programme for vulnerable young people in Colombia

Colombia, 2025 - 2026
DESS

Reference ID

10.16909-dataset-67

DOI

Producer(s)

Mauricio Avendano, Martha Escobar Lux, Fabio Idrobo Bonilla, Armando N. Meier, Omar Y. Vargas Rodriguez

Collections

Department of epidemiology and health systems (DESS)

Metadata

The Self-Stigma of Seeking Psychology Help (SSOSH) scale 3-item (ssosh6)

Data file: Individual-level surveys dataset

Overview

Valid: 35511
Invalid: 40485
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
INSTRUCTIONS: People at times find that they face problems that they consider seeking help for. This can bring up reactions about what seeking help would mean. Please use the 5-point scale to rate the degree to which each item describes how you might react in this situation.
Question 6. It would make me feel inferior to ask a therapist for help.
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Strongly Disagree 0
1 Disagree 14473
41.6%
2 Agree & Disagree Equally 12608
36.2%
3 Agree 5476
15.7%
4 Strongly Agree 2224
6.4%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Others

Notes
Topic: Standardised instrument : SSOSH-3

Asked in survey wave(s): Baseline survey, Follow-up 1 survey, Follow-up 2 survey

Reference/note: Short form: Brenner RE, Colvin KF, Hammer JH, Vogel DL (2021). Using item response theory to develop revised (SSOSH-7) and ultra-brief (SSOSH-3) Self-Stigma of Seeking Help scales. Assessment 28(5):1488–1499. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120958496
Original 10-item scale: Vogel DL, Wade NG, Haake S (2006). Measuring the self-stigma associated with seeking psychological help. J Couns Psychol 53(3):325–337. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.53.3.325
Colombia (medical students): Validación de la escala de Autoestigma por Búsqueda de Ayuda (ABA) en una población de estudiantes de Medicina de Colombia. Rev Colomb Psiquiatr. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034745020300202
Study description in PDF

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