Core--Mental Health

核心--心理健康

• 批准号: 6719247
• 负责人: MARK OLFSON
• 金额: $ 7.39万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-02-10 至 2008-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6719247
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; behavioral /social science research tag; biomedical facility; community; community mental health services; health disparity; health services research tag; interdisciplinary collaboration; low socioeconomic status; racial /ethnic difference; workshop

Unmet need for mental health care is particularly great in minority populations. Yet despite evident need for mental health services, poor people are less likely to seek mental health treatment than wealthier individuals. Moreover, African-Americans and Hispanics are less likely to seek mental health treatment than non-Hispanic whites. Unmet need for mental health treatment remains considerable and is highest among poor, ethnic and racial minority populations. When minority population do receive mental health care, they are comparatively less likely to receive it from mental health specialists. Poor and minority populations rely disproportionately on primary care providers for mental health treatment and on informal sources of care such as friends, family or clergy. The overall aim of the Mental Health Research Core (MHRC) is to facilitate the development and research evaluation of mental health interventions on low-income minority populations. The MHRC will purse this overall aim through three specific objectives: (1) develop stronger collaborations between mental health researchers trained in service evaluation and community agencies that provide social and health services; (2) promote community-based research on interventions to improve mental health access for low income adults minority adults and children; and (3) identify and implement mechanism to extend mental health research into areas relevant to reducing ethnic and racial disparities in access to mental health care. In addressing these objectives, the MHRC will carry out four related activities reflecting community priorities: (1) partnerships conferences for community mental health promotion, (2) community mental health workshops, (3) a lecture series on minority mental health, and (4) a secondary data analysis program concentrating on mental health services and epidemiological and clinical intervention research that advances the MHRC mission.

在少数民族人群中，对精神卫生保健的需求尤其重要。尽管有明显的精神卫生服务需要，但穷人寻求心理健康治疗的可能性比富裕的人少。此外，与非西班牙裔白人相比，非裔美国人和西班牙裔人寻求心理健康治疗的可能性较小。对心理健康治疗的需求仍然相当大，在贫困，种族和种族少数群体中最高。当少数族裔确实获得心理保健时，他们从心理健康专家那里获得的可能性较小。贫穷和少数民族的人口不成比例地依靠初级保健提供者进行心理健康治疗以及非正式的护理来源，例如朋友，家人或神职人员。 心理健康研究核心（MHRC）的总体目的是促进对低收入少数民族人群的心理健康干预措施的发展和研究评估。 MHRC将通过三个特定目标来推动这一整体目标：（1）在接受服务评估的培训的心理健康研究人员与提供社会和卫生服务的社区机构之间建立更强的合作； （2）促进基于社区的研究，以改善低收入成年人少数民族成年人和儿童的心理健康获取； （3）确定并实施机制，将心理健康研究扩展到与减少族裔和种族差异有关的领域。在 为了解决这些目标，MHRC将开展四项反映社区优先事项的相关活动：（1）社区心理健康促进的伙伴关系会议，（2）社区心理健康讲习班，（3）关于少数群体心理健康的讲座系列，以及（4）二级数据分析计划集中在心理健康服务以及临床和临床干预研究中，以使MHRC MHRC晋升。