COVID BAME highlight: A collaborative approach to understand and remediate the impact of COVID19 on mental health in BAME communities: A pilot study

COVID BAME 亮点：了解和补救 COVID19 对 BAME 社区心理健康影响的协作方法：一项试点研究

• 批准号: ES/W001330/1
• 负责人: Valentina Cardi
• 金额: $ 29.42万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW001330%2F1
• 关键词: COVID; BAME; highlight; collaborative; approach

The COVID19 Pandemic has exacerbated societal differences, with its greatest negative impact on vulnerable groups, including people from a BAME background. Among other challenges, this population, and especially children and young adults, experiences mental health difficulties to a greater degree than people from white background and faces significant difficulties in accessing mental health services. This project will use a collaborative approach that will involve members of BAME communities, including people with mental health difficulties, mental health professionals and members of charities. The project aims are: (1) to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and service access in families of children/young adults from BAME backgrounds using qualitative methods, and (2) to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of an online carers' skill-based training to improve mental health wellbeing in families from BAME backgrounds. It is acknowledged that there is great heterogeneity among BAME communities and therefore this pilot study will focus on adults of black ethnicity, with the longer-term goal of replicating findings in other ethnic minority groups. The output of aim 1 will be improved knowledge about the effects of COVID19 on mental health among adults of black ethnicity. The output of aim 2 will be the understanding of how an online carers' skill-based training could be adapted to the needs of this population to promote mental health wellbeing in families.

COVID 19大流行加剧了社会差异，对弱势群体（包括BAME背景的人）的负面影响最大。除其他挑战外，这一群体，特别是儿童和年轻人，比白色背景的人在心理健康方面遇到更大的困难，在获得心理健康服务方面面临重大困难。该项目将采用协作方法，将涉及BAME社区成员，包括有心理健康困难的人，心理健康专业人员和慈善机构成员。该项目的目标是：（1）使用定性方法更好地了解COVID-19对来自BAME背景的儿童/年轻人家庭的心理健康和服务获取的影响，以及（2）评估在线照顾者技能培训的可行性和可接受性，以改善来自BAME背景的家庭的心理健康福祉。人们承认，黑人、亚裔和少数民族社区之间存在很大的异质性，因此这项试点研究将侧重于黑人成年人，长期目标是在其他少数民族群体中复制研究结果。目标1的产出将是提高关于COVID 19对黑人成年人心理健康影响的知识。目标2的产出将是了解如何调整在线护理人员技能培训以满足这一人群的需求，以促进家庭的心理健康福祉。