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.

少数群体对精神卫生保健的未满足需求尤其严重。然而，尽管对心理健康服务的需求显而易见，但穷人寻求心理健康治疗的可能性却低于富裕人群。此外，与非西班牙裔白人相比，非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人寻求心理健康治疗的可能性较小。心理健康治疗的未满足需求仍然很大，并且在贫困人口、少数民族和少数族裔人群中最为严重。当少数群体确实接受心理健康护理时，他们从心理健康专家那里获得治疗的可能性相对较小。贫困人口和少数民族人口过度依赖初级保健提供者进行心理健康治疗，并过度依赖朋友、家人或神职人员等非正式护理来源。 心理健康研究核心（MHRC）的总体目标是促进针对低收入少数群体的心理健康干预措施的开发和研究评估。 MHRC 将通过三个具体目标来实现这一总体目标：(1) 在接受过服务评估培训的心理健康研究人员与提供社会和健康服务的社区机构之间建立更强有力的合作； (2) 促进以社区为基础的干预研究，以改善低收入成年人、少数民族成年人和儿童的心理健康服务； (3) 确定并实施机制，将精神卫生研究扩展到与减少获得精神卫生保健方面的民族和种族差异相关的领域。在 为了实现这些目标，MHRC 将开展反映社区优先事项的四项相关活动：(1) 促进社区心理健康的伙伴关系会议，(2) 社区心理健康研讨会，(3) 关于少数群体心理健康的系列讲座，以及 (4)二次数据分析项目，专注于心理健康服务以及流行病学和临床干预研究，以推进 MHRC 的使命。