TY - JOUR
T1 - Willingness to seek professional mental health service in three ethnic groups of Asian Americans
AU - Yoon, Hyunwoo
AU - Jang, Yuri
N1 - Funding Information:
Hyunwoo Yoon, PhD, received support from the Rutgers University Asian Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research Center under National Institute on Health (NIH)/National Institute on Aging (NIA) Grant P30-AG0059304. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH/NIA. The support for manuscript development was partly provided by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant (NRF-2016S1A3A2925399).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The study explored factors associated with willingness to seek professional mental health service in three ethnic groups of Asian Americans (Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino). Mental health needs reduced the odds of having willingness to seek service in the Chinese sample. In the Vietnamese sample, the linkage between the presence of mental health needs and willingness to seek service was less likely when they had a higher level of the social network. Findings demonstrated similarities and differences between and within subgroups, providing both general and group-specific implications in bridging the gap between mental health needs and service use in Asian Americans.
AB - The study explored factors associated with willingness to seek professional mental health service in three ethnic groups of Asian Americans (Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino). Mental health needs reduced the odds of having willingness to seek service in the Chinese sample. In the Vietnamese sample, the linkage between the presence of mental health needs and willingness to seek service was less likely when they had a higher level of the social network. Findings demonstrated similarities and differences between and within subgroups, providing both general and group-specific implications in bridging the gap between mental health needs and service use in Asian Americans.
KW - Asian Americans
KW - attitudes toward mental health service
KW - mental health needs
KW - service use
KW - stigma
KW - willingness to seek mental health service
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074726273&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15313204.2019.1680589
DO - 10.1080/15313204.2019.1680589
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074726273
SN - 1531-3204
VL - 30
SP - 445
EP - 461
JO - Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
JF - Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
IS - 5
ER -
