CONSCIOUS: A Pilot Trial of a Media Orientation Intervention to Encourage Men's Help Seeking for Mental Health Difficulties

The GAD-7 is a seven item scale for screening, measuring and assessing the severity of generalised anxiety disorder. Scores of 5, 10, and 15 are taken as the cut-off points for mild, moderate and severe anxiety, respectively.

The ATSPPH is a 10-item scale that measures attitude towards seeking professional psychological help. Higher scores reflect increased positive attitude towards seeking professional psychological help while lower score reflects reduced attitude towards seeking help.

The GHSQ is a 20-item scale measuring the likelihood of seeking help from a range of sources. The scale adopts a Likert style rating as follows: Extremely unlikely(1), Somewhat unlikely (2), Unlikely (3), Not sure (4), Likely =5, Somewhat likely = 6, Extremely likely =7. The scores are summed across all help-seeking items. For a standard 9-item list, total scores range from 9 to 63 points. Higher total scores indicate a greater overall intention to seek help from someone.

The self-stigma and help seeking scale is a 10-item scale that measures stigma of seeking help. The scale features 10 items, each rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly. Items 2, 4, 5, 7, and 9 are reverse-scored. The possible total score ranges from 10 to 50. Higher total scores indicate higher levels of internalised self-stigma associated with seeking professional psychological help.

The Stigma of Suicide Scale (SOSS) measures public attitudes and stigma toward suicide, aiding research on societal perceptions and informing anti-stigma interventions to improve mental health outcomes. The long form consists of 58 items and the short form consists of 16 items. Each item consists of a one-word descriptor of a person who dies by suicide. A person completes the scale by rating how much they agree with each item being a descriptor of someone who takes their own life. Each item is to be rated on a 5-point Likert scale from (1) strongly disagree to (5) strongly agree. Higher scores indicate higher levels of stigma towards people who suicide.

The Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) is a 20-item, true/false self-report inventory designed to measure an individual's negative attitudes or pessimism about the future. Lower score indicate none or minimal while higher score indicate severe.

The EQ-5D-5L is a 5 item scale designed to aid assessment of the generic quality of life. In the EQ-5D-5L, each dimension has five response levels: no problems (Level 1); slight (Level 2); moderate (Level 3); severe (Level 4); and extreme problems (Level 5). There are 3,125 possible health states defined by combining one level from each dimension, ranging from 11111 (full health) to 55555 (worst health).

The scale is a 3-item self-reported measure designed for assessing and measuring the level of social support. The sum score ranges from 3 to 14, with high values representing strong levels and low values representing poor levels of social support as indicated as follows: a) 3-8 poor social support, b) 9-11 moderate social support, c) 12-14 strong social support.

The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a standard diagnostic tool used to screen for and measure the severity of depression. Scores range from 0 to 27, calculated by assigning 0 to 3 points for each of the nine questions. Scores ≤4 suggest minimal depression which may not require treatment. Higher score suggest depression.

The PCL-5 is a 20-item self-report questionnaire used to assess PTSD symptoms based on DSM-5 criteria. It evaluates symptoms over the past month on a 0 to 4 scale, yielding a total severity score from 0 to 80. A score of 31-33 or higher is generally considered the clinical cutoff. Scores in this range suggest a provisional PTSD diagnosis.