Effects of Parent Immigration Status on Mental Health Service Use Among Latino Children Referred to Child Welfare
Effects of Parent Immigration Status on Mental Health Service Use Among Latino Children Referred to Child Welfare
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DOI：
10.1176/appi.ps.201400444
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发表时间：
2016-02-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Hurlburt, Michael S.
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作者：
Finno-Velasquez, Megan;Cardoso, Jodi Berger;Hurlburt, Michael S.
目的：拉丁裔家庭可能面临移民过程中产生的压力，例如与文件状态和文化适应有关的压力，这可能会增加他们对心理健康服务的需求。然而，关于拉丁裔儿童的心理健康需求和服务使用的研究很少。本研究探讨了父母的出生和法律的地位如何影响心理健康需求和服务利用率在拉丁美洲家庭的儿童调查儿童福利。第二次全国儿童和青少年福利调查是一项具有全国代表性的前瞻性研究，对儿童福利机构调查的虐待家庭进行了调查，被用来检查心理健康需要和服务使用的一个子集的拉丁裔儿童谁留在家里后，虐待调查（N=390）。在临床需求水平上，出生父母的心理健康服务接受率较低。分析后占其他相关变量，接受服务的几率显着降低（比值比=.09）的父母无证儿童相比，其父母是美国公民的儿童：这项研究有助于增加话语拉丁美洲家庭的需要在儿童福利系统。分析支持早期的研究父母出生对心理健康服务的使用和推进文学的影响，确定父母的法律的地位作为一个独特的障碍，儿童服务接收。
Objective: Latino families may be at risk of experiencing stressors resulting from the immigration process, such as those related to documentation status and acculturation, that may increase their need for mental health services. However, little research exists on the mental health needs and service use of Latino children. This study examined how parental nativity and legal status influence mental health needs and service utilization among children in Latino families investigated by child welfare.Methods: Data from the second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, a nationally representative, prospective study of families investigated by child welfare agencies for maltreatment, were used to examine mental health need and service use in a subset of Latino children who remained in the home following a maltreatment investigation (N=390).Results: Although children of immigrants did not differ from children of U.S.-born parents in levels of clinical need, they had lower rates of mental health service receipt. After the analyses accounted for other relevant variables, the odds of receiving services were significantly lower (odds ratio=.09) for children whose parents were undocumented compared with children whose parents were U.S. citizens.Conclusions: This study contributes to growing discourse on Latino family needs within the child welfare system. Analyses support earlier research regarding the effects of parent nativity on mental health service use and advance the literature by identifying parent legal status as a unique barrier to child service receipt.