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Immigrant-based Disparities in Mental Health Care Utilization

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ID2423652
AuthorsShawn Bauldry (0000-0002-6679-3125, Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author), Magdalena Szaflarski (0000-0002-6228-1405, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Year2017
Volume3
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2378-0231 • E-ISSN: 2378-0231
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2378023116685718
PMID28845455
OpenAlexW2736021754
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited40

Studies of immigrant-based disparities in mental health care have been limited by small sample sizes and a lack of measures of different dimensions of acculturation. This study draws on the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions to address these limitations. Results indicate first-generation immigrants have lower rates of utilization for both mood and anxiety disorders. Nativity-based disparities in treatment are particularly notable among people from African and Hispanic origins, while there is little evidence of disparities among people from European origins. Of three dimensions of acculturation, only the identity dimension has a positive association with mental health care utilization

Acculturation · Anxiety · Geography · Health care · Immigration · Mental health · Mental health care · Mood · Political science · Psychiatry · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Gerontology

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