Addressing Asian American Mental Health Disparities: Putting Community-Based Research Principles to Work
Addressing Asian American Mental Health Disparities: Putting Community-Based Research Principles to Work
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DOI：
10.1037/a0032675
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发表时间：
2014-03-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Tu, Ming-Che
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作者：
Okazaki, Sumie;Kassem, Ahmed M.;Tu, Ming-Che
这篇文章提供了一个关于亚裔美国人心理健康差异的现有文献的简要总结。新出现的证据表明，总体而言，亚裔美国人的精神疾病终生和12个月患病率似乎低于其他种族/族裔群体，根据西方精神病标准判断。然而，亚裔美国人在精神疾病发病率以及获得护理和治疗方面仍然存在差距。我们审查了一些文化和结构性因素，维持差距，并确定问题仍然悬而未决的持续差距。最后，借鉴公共卫生和健康差距的研究，我们讨论了以社区为基础的参与性研究（CBPR）的方法，为解决心理健康差距研究中的剩余问题的一个有前途的途径。具体而言，我们认为CBPR方法非常适合解决特定社区和民族文化背景下的痛苦和寻求帮助的过程的性质，并促进亚裔美国人社区成员，研究人员和从业人员之间的对话。
This article provides a brief summary of existing literature on mental health disparities for Asian Americans. Emerging evidence suggests that in the aggregate, Asian Americans appear to have lower lifetime and 12-month prevalence rate for psychiatric disorders than other racial/ethnic groups, as judged by the Western psychiatric criteria. However, disparities continue to exist for segments of Asian American populations with respect to rates of mental illness, as well as access to care and treatment. We review a number of cultural and structural factors that sustain disparities and identify questions that remain unresolved with respect to the continuing disparities. Finally, drawing from public health and health disparities research, we discuss the community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach as a promising avenue for addressing the remaining questions in mental health disparities research. Specifically, we argue that CBPR approaches are well suited to address the nature of distress and help-seeking process within particular communal and ethnocultural contexts and to promote dialogue between Asian American community members, researchers, and practitioners.