Outcomes
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SECONDARY
The primary outcomes were participants’ changes in general help-seeking intentions for emotional problems and suicidal ideation and attitudes toward seeking help from MHPs between baseline and 1-month follow-up. The general help-seeking intentions were measured by the General Help-Seeking Questionnaire (GHSQ), the validity of which in Chinese participants had been validated by previous research [Participants’ changes in general help-seeking intentions for emotional problems and suicidal ideation and attitudes toward seeking help from MHPs between baseline and post-discussion and 3-month post-intervention were defined as the secondary outcomes. Other secondary outcomes included participants’ actual help-seeking behaviors measured by the Chinese validated version of the Actual Help-Seeking Questionnaire (AHSQ) [Since the GHSQ and AHSQ have the “not applicable” option, these 2 variables used the average value of valid items for analysis, while other variables used the total score. According to previous research, we did the additional analysis of the GHSQ by dichotomizing responses into “0” for “Highly unlikely” and “Unlikely,” and “1” for “Highly likely” and “Likely” [