Perceived Discrimination Within The Patient-Provider Relationship And Its Impact On Help-Seeking Behaviors

<p>Racial and ethnic minorities have faced discrimination for hundreds of years. When patients experience discrimination in healthcare settings, help-seeking behaviors decrease. Many patients choose to refrain from seeking treatment until their psychological or physical health issues are unmanageable, often resulting in acute visits to the emergency department. Patients that have experienced previous discriminatory encounters with health care providers are more likely to choose not to seek help for physical or mental health concerns, resulting in overall poorer physical health and mental health outcomes. With the use of critical evaluation of previous studies, this paper has demonstrated that perceived discrimination negatively impacts help-seeking behaviors and health care outcomes for patients of color. Additionally, the author of this paper has developed a measure for mental and physical healthcare providers and patients of color to identify perceived difficulties within the patient-provider relationship.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Psy.D. Doctor of Clinical Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Clinical Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Hibbler, LeChey S

Contributors dc:contributor

• Patricia Dixon, PsyD
• Gary Howell, PsyD

• mental health
• physical health
• culture
• African American
• Latinx
• Native American
• Asian
• Clinical Psychology
• Community Psychology
• Health Psychology
• Multicultural Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/558

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1604