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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Mental Health Service Utilization"”.
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Mental Health Service Utilization Among African-American Adolescents
<p>Underutilization of mental health services by ethnic minorities has been identified as a major public health threat by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2001). Research on ethnic disparities has focused on identifying the sociodemographic correlates of between group differences …
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Mental Health Service Utilization among African American Emerging Adults
<p>Mental illness affects 25-30% of US adults ages 18 years and older in a given year. Of those individuals, about 41% fail to utilize mental health services. Research indicates that being African American and between the ages of 18 and 29 are associated with decreased rates of service utilization. …
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Influences on Mental Health Service Utilization for Vietnamese Young Adults
BACKGROUND: Vietnamese-Americans underutilize mental health services. Several factors have been proposed to influence rates of service utilization within this population, including cultural identification and families' acceptance of such services. Most measures of cultural identification are …
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Overcoming Barriers to Mental Health Service Utilization Among Justice Involved Youth
… to identify the barriers to and facilitators of mental health services utilization among youth in the justice setting, and to explore ways to overcome these barriers and expand these facilitators. This qualitative study utilized focus groups as a means to extract themes among the perceptions of …
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Mental Health Service Utilization Patterns in a School Mental Health Program for High Poverty Communities
… living in poverty experience high rates of mental health difficulties including high rates of externalizing and internalizing disorders. However, up to 80% of low-income children in need of mental health services do not receive needed services. Given the barriers and lack of available mental …
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Beyond Displacement: Understanding the Intersection of Cultural Variables on Mental Health Service Utilization among Newcomers
Existing literature regarding mental health and mental health service access reveals disparities between the experiences of newcomers and their native-born counterparts. Previous studies have mainly focused on how the immigration process and displacement from one’s country of origin influence …
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Mental health service utilization, knowledge, stigma, and protective factors in a college student sample: The influence of racial categories and student-athlete status
… and time constraints, that impact their mental health needs. They have shown more mental health stigma and less service utilization. This study explored these variables and groups using secondary data analyses from the 2019-2020 Healthy Minds Study (HMS). The current study hypothesized …
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Examining Mental Health Status and Mental Health Service Utilization by Visible Minority Immigrants in Canada: Adopting a Social Determinants of Health and Intersectionality Approach
… is increasing rapidly. However, studies on mental health experiences associated with migration-related challenges are limited. Drawing on social determinants of health and intersectionality frameworks, this study investigated the relationship between social contextual factors and mental …
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Mental health in forcibly displaced adults in Germany: Access and barriers to mental health service utilization, the impact of an insecure asylum status, and the moderating effect of perceived social support
… to leave their home country, prevalence rates of mental disorders are comparably high in populations of forcibly displaced people (Bozorgmehr et al., 2016; Gäbel et al., 2006). Even though research in this area is growing, numbers and data vary widely across studies. In addition, although a …
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Intersecting Inequities: Latinx Access To Mental Health Services
<p>This study examined barriers to mental health service utilization among Latinx populations using data from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Through the theoretical frameworks of Minority Stress Theory and Toxic Stress Theory, the study investigated the relationships …
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Black Women, Black Pride, and Mental Health: How Does the Power of an African American Woman’s Cultural Pride Influence her Perceived Barriers to Mental Health Care?
… between cultural pride and perceived barriers to mental health care among African American women in the United States. Though extensive research has highlighted the disparities in mental health service utilization among racial and ethnic minorities, few studies have examined how variations in …
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Epidemiological Assessment of Bipolar Disorder in Canada
… with BD in terms of demographic features, health status, and mental health service utilization. During the course of this thesis, a third objective emerged which was to examine some indicators of validity of the World Mental Health version of the World Health Organization Composite …
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Patterns and Predictors of Behavioral Change Among Children Enrolled in an Intensive School-Based Mental Health Program
… prevalence of diagnosable, yet often untreated, mental health disorders among youth. School-based mental health (SBMH) services have evolved to address these needs and represent an area of growing clinical and research interest. For children with the most severe emotional and behavioral disorders …
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Understanding Service Utilization Disparities and Depression in Latino Parents and Children: The Role of Fatalismo
… demonstrated a disparity between need and utilization of mental health services for Latino adults and children. The adapted Health Beliefs Model (Henshaw & Freedman-Doan, 2009) provides a useful framework for conceptualizing the roles of perceived severity and therapy expectations in the …
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Geography of Service Delivery: On the Role of Mental Health Service Structure in Community Senior Services for Puerto Rican Older Adults
… purpose of this study was to examine the role of mental health services structure in community senior centers and how it interacts with Puerto Rican older adults' historical, social, and cultural experiences to relate to their perceptions, awareness, and utilization of mental health services. The …
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"Therapy is Not For Us": Understanding Community and Self-Imposed Stigma on Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviors in Black University Students
In the U.S., research has repeatedly shown that mental illness prevalence is rising among all populations. While mental health awareness has increased along with this rise, both the acceptance and severity of symptoms are not uniform among demographics. For example, previous studies have …
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Maintaining Medicaid and MAT : policy analysis for post-incarceration
… suspends Medicaid during incarceration, creating healthcare access gaps upon release, particularly for those with substance use disorders. Michigan House Bill 5698 (2024) aims to address these gaps by mandating Medicaid reactivation and comprehensive mental health discharge planning before …
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A qualitative exploration into how UK Pakistani male immigrants deal with personal problems and stresses in everyday life
… United Kingdom have comparatively low rates of mental health service utilization. Whilst several possible explanations have been offered by researchers, including lack of available information, language barriers, and variations in help-seeking behaviour, existing studies have yielded …
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More than "mentally-ill": Differentiating help-seeking from mental-illness stigma in a college population
… of research exist: studies of the stigma of mental illness (e.g., Link et al., 1989) and studies of the self-stigma of seeking psychological help (e.g., Vogel, Wade, & Haake, 2006). While some researchers implicitly treat these two constructs as synonymous (e.g., Corrigan, Watson, & Barr, …
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Predictors of post-deployment mental healthcare utilization among active duty Marines
Service members returning from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan consistently report high rates of behavioral health problems, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and alcohol misuse. However, despite signs of treatment need, research suggests that mental health services are …
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