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- Title
Explaining mental health treatment disparities: ethnic and cultural differences in family involvement.
- Authors
Snowden, Lonnie R
- Abstract
In a large, representative sample of persons receiving public mental health treatment, we examined whether ethnic minority consumers were more likely than white consumers to live with their families and to receive family support. We then evaluated whether differences observed in family involvement explained treatment disparities observed in outpatient and inpatient mental health services. Results indicated that Asian American and Latino consumers, especially, were considerably more likely than white consumers to live with family members and to receive family support. Ethnocultural differences in living with family did explain treatment intensity disparities whether or not consumers described themselves as dependent on family support. The results support the hypothesis that cultural differences in family involvement and support play a role in explaining mental health treatment disparities.
- Publication
Culture, medicine and psychiatry, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 3, p389
- ISSN
0165-005X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11013-007-9057-z