Factors Associated with Professional Mental Health Counseling Among Korean Adults: An Age-Stratified Analysis Using the Andersen Behavioral Model
Jae Hee Kim · 2026
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Jae Hee Kim studies who actually gets professional mental health counseling in Korea, split by age, in this solo study from twenty twenty-six. Use of counseling runs far below need, and the reasons may change across a life. Kim applied a standard model of health service use to the national mental health survey of twenty twenty-one.
The sample held five thousand five hundred eleven adults in three age bands. Women were more likely than men to get counseling among the young and the middle-aged, and feeling satisfied with one's health also helped. One factor cut the same way in every band: loneliness. Lonelier adults were less likely to have had counseling, not more. Kim notes the snapshot design cannot prove which came first. Still, the pattern hints that loneliness blocks the road from need to help, a target for outreach.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jae Hee Kim |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |