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

2019冠状病毒病大流行加剧了社会差异，对弱势群体的负面影响最大，包括来自ame背景的人。除其他挑战外，这一人口，特别是儿童和年轻人，比白人背景的人经历更大程度的心理健康困难，在获得心理健康服务方面面临重大困难。该项目将采用一种协作的方式，包括心理健康有困难的人、心理健康专业人员和慈善机构成员在内的BAME社区成员将参与其中。该项目的目的是：(1)使用定性方法更好地了解COVID-19对来自BAME背景的儿童/青年家庭的心理健康和服务获取的影响，以及(2)评估在线护理人员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，白人白人社区之间存在很大的异质性，因此，这项试点研究将重点放在黑人成年人身上，其长期目标是在其他少数民族群体中复制研究结果。目标1的产出将是提高对covid - 19对黑人成年人心理健康影响的认识。目标2的成果将是了解在线护理人员技能培训如何适应这一人群的需求，以促进家庭的心理健康。

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.