title: Intention to seek mental health treatment for adolescent girls: comparison of predictors in mothers and daughters.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine predictors of intention to seek mental health treatment for adolescent girls in mothers and daughters.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this cross-sectional study, mothers and adolescent daughters (n = 71) completed measures of behavioral attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intention to seek mental health treatment for the adolescent daughter.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Behavioral attitude and perceived behavioral control predicted intention to seek mental health treatment among mothers. Behavioral attitude predicted intention among daughters. There were no associations between mothers and daughters on study variables.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To promote shared decision making and engagement in mental health treatment, clinicians may target interventions to the mother's perceived behavioral control and behavioral attitudes of daughters and mothers. Based upon study results, clinicians should promote shared decision making and concordance between mothers and daughters on attitudes toward mental health treatment.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
authors.forename: M Cynthia
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Logsdon
authors.forename: Melissa D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: A Scott
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: LaJoie
authors.forename: Paige
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hertweck
authors.forename: Tania
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Flamini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests
keywords: Depression; daughters; mothers