Examining Mass Media, Mental Health Literacy, and Public Mental Health Stigma Among the Latinx Population Residing in Nontraditional Receiving Communities

摘要 拉丁裔人口在获得、利用和质量方面面临持续和日益严重的不平等， 即使在调整了健康保险状况和社会经济因素之后，抑郁症的医疗保健也是如此。心理 健康知识普及和公众心理健康污名化仍然是心理健康服务护理的持续障碍 在这个人群中。关于拉丁裔成年人可以使用和消费的媒体内容类型知之甚少 在非传统接收社区和西班牙语媒体新闻如何描绘抑郁症。的 本研究将解决以下三个目标：（a）描述拉丁美洲成年人如何使用不同类型的 大众媒体寻求有关抑郁症和抑郁症治疗的信息，并研究如何社会- 人口统计学、文化适应因素、目前的抑郁症状和过去的心理健康经历 治疗与大众媒体使用有关;（2）研究大众媒体使用与心理健康之间的关系 健康知识普及和公众心理健康污名化;以及（c）对以下预防措施进行内容分析： 抑郁症在美国西班牙语的新闻来源，以检查存在的刻板印象，恢复 主题和教育信息。这项研究的结果将产生关于大众作用的新知识。 媒体在塑造心理健康素养和公共心理健康耻辱和拉丁裔人口中发挥作用。

Abstract The Latinx population faces persistent and growing inequities in the access to, utilization, and quality of mental health care for depression, even after adjusting for health insurance status and socioeconomic factors. Mental health literacy and public mental health stigma continue to be persistent barriers to mental health services care in this population. Little is known about the types of media content available to and consumed by Latinx adults in non-traditional receiving communities and how Spanish-language media news portrays depression. The present study will address the following three aims: (a) characterize how Latinx adults use different types of mass media to seek information about depression and depression treatment and examine how social- demographics, acculturation factors, current depressive symptoms, and past experiences with mental health treatments are related to mass media use; (2) examine the relationships between mass media use and mental health literacy and public mental health stigma; and (c) conduct a content analysis of the depictions of depression in U.S. Spanish-language news sources to examine the presences of stereotypes, recovery themes, and educational information. Findings from this study will generate new knowledge on the role of mass media plays in shaping mental health literacy and public mental health stigma and in the Latinx population.