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Using a vignette-based approach, 3002 respondents rated the perceived helpfulness of 28 treatment options for alcohol abuse, dementia, depression, obsessive\u2013compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia as either \u2018helpful\u2019 or \u2018harmful\u2019. Weighted prevalence, stratified by vignettes and logistic regressions, were performed.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472425108910_as4\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Counselling was most frequently rated as being helpful for alcohol use disorder (94.0%) and depression (95.2%), while seeing a psychiatrist was most frequently rated helpful for schizophrenia (93.0%), dementia (85.1%) and OCD (91.6%). Across all vignettes, informal help sources, including family (80.8%) and friends (74.7%), were considered less helpful than mental health professionals, except for \u2018counselling over the phone\u2019 (58.8%) and \u2019seeing a general practitioner\u2019 (69.8%). Participants in 2023 were significantly more likely to endorse psychologists, counsellors and phone counselling as being helpful than in 2015. 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