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Mental Health Literacy: a Critical Target for Narrowing Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health
One of the most persistent and troubling health disparities is the underutilization of mental health services, particularly for depression and anxiety, commonly occurring behavioral health concerns. The gap between individuals who need mental health care and those who receive care is large, and iden...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8582339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34785992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00694-w |
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description | One of the most persistent and troubling health disparities is the underutilization of mental health services, particularly for depression and anxiety, commonly occurring behavioral health concerns. The gap between individuals who need mental health care and those who receive care is large, and identified barriers to treatment include poor mental health and insurance literacy, as well as stigmatizing attitudes toward mental health disorders. The present study presents the results of an inquiry into the mental health literacy, insurance literacy, internalized stigma, and mental health symptoms. Results suggest that mental health literacy is poor and associated with higher rates of depression, anxiety, stress, internalized stigma, and caregiver burden. Implications of poor mental health literacy, as well as demographic disparities in literacy, are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-85823392021-11-12 Mental Health Literacy: a Critical Target for Narrowing Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health Tambling, R. R. D’Aniello, C. Russell, B. S. Int J Ment Health Addict Original Article One of the most persistent and troubling health disparities is the underutilization of mental health services, particularly for depression and anxiety, commonly occurring behavioral health concerns. The gap between individuals who need mental health care and those who receive care is large, and identified barriers to treatment include poor mental health and insurance literacy, as well as stigmatizing attitudes toward mental health disorders. The present study presents the results of an inquiry into the mental health literacy, insurance literacy, internalized stigma, and mental health symptoms. Results suggest that mental health literacy is poor and associated with higher rates of depression, anxiety, stress, internalized stigma, and caregiver burden. Implications of poor mental health literacy, as well as demographic disparities in literacy, are discussed. Springer US 2021-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8582339/ /pubmed/34785992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00694-w Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Tambling, R. R. D’Aniello, C. Russell, B. S. Mental Health Literacy: a Critical Target for Narrowing Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health |
title | Mental Health Literacy: a Critical Target for Narrowing Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health |
title_full | Mental Health Literacy: a Critical Target for Narrowing Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health |
title_fullStr | Mental Health Literacy: a Critical Target for Narrowing Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental Health Literacy: a Critical Target for Narrowing Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health |
title_short | Mental Health Literacy: a Critical Target for Narrowing Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health |
title_sort | mental health literacy: a critical target for narrowing racial disparities in behavioral health |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8582339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34785992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00694-w |
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