Black Churches and Mental Health Professionals

Dempsey, Keith; Butler, S. Kent; Gaither, LaTrece

doi:10.1177/0021934715613588

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“…Clinical interventions such as collaborative care for depression in primary care, which has been shown to reduce disparities in care [37], could be augmented with efforts to address the diversity of perceptions of distress among people who screen positive for depression [38]. Non-clinical interventions, such as anti-stigma campaigns [39], could be more culturally targeted with greater emphasis on faith-based [40, 41] and other community-based organizations, such as work being done on public health outreach through barber shops [42]. Programs addressing mental health literacy may also be useful [43, 44].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial/ethnic differences in perception of need for mental health treatment in a US national sample

Breslau

Cefalu

Wong

et al. 2017

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Purpose To resolve contradictory evidence regarding racial/ethnic differences in perceived need for mental health treatment in the USA using a large and diverse epidemiologic sample. Methods Samples from 6 years of a repeated cross-sectional survey of the US civilian non-institutionalized population were combined (N = 232,723). Perceived need was compared across three non-Hispanic groups (whites, blacks and Asian-Americans) and two Hispanic groups (English interviewees and Spanish interviewees). Logistic regression models were used to test for variation across groups in the relationship between severity of mental illness and perceived need for treatment. Results Adjusting statistically for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and for severity of mental illness, perceived need was less common in all racial/ethnic minority groups compared to whites. The prevalence difference (relative to whites) was smallest among Hispanics interviewed in English, −5.8% (95% CI −6.5, −5.2%), and largest among Hispanics interviewed in Spanish, - 11.2% (95% CI −12.4, −10.0%). Perceived need was significantly less common among all minority racial/ethnic groups at each level of severity. In particular, among those with serious mental illness, the largest prevalence differences (relative to whites) were among Asian-Americans, −23.3% (95% CI −34.9, −11.7%) and Hispanics interviewed in Spanish, 32.6% (95% CI −48.0, −17.2%). Conclusions This study resolves the contradiction in empirical evidence regarding the existence of racial/ethnic differences in perception of need for mental health treatment; differences exist across the range of severity of mental illness and among those with no mental illness. These differences should be taken into account in an effort to reduce mental health-care disparities.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial/ethnic differences in perception of need for mental health treatment in a US national sample

Breslau

Cefalu

Wong

et al. 2017

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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“…Such findings bridge literature from the field of public health to sociology, promoting a better understanding of the role of religious organizations in health promotion. Clearly, as other studies suggest (Anshel and Smith 2014;Rowland and Isaac-Savage 2014;Dempsey et al 2016), health and medicine are salient topics in many communities of faith. This was seen in the sheer volume of health fairs, vaccination clinics, and other health initiatives mentioned by church members in our study.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Public health professionals have increasingly explored initiatives leveraging the ability of churches to bridge healthcare to historically underserved communities (Anshel and Smith 2014;Rowland and Isaac-Savage 2014;Dempsey, Butler, and Gaither 2016). This includes using religious organizations to distribute information on health care screening, medical services, and health insurance.…”

Section: Religion and Health Care Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heaven and Health: How Black, Latino, and Korean Christians View the Relationship between Faith and Health

Bolger

Tinsley

Ecklund

2018

Review of Religious Research

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Religious congregations have increasingly been viewed as potential access points to health care in underserved communities. Such a perspective stems from a robust literature identifying the unique civic role that churches potentially play in African American and Latino communities.Yet, research on congregational health promotion has often not considered how congregants view the connections between religious faith, physical health, and the church community. In order to further interrogate how congregants view the church's role in health promotion, we compare views on the relationship between faith and health between two groups that are overrepresented in American Christianity and underrepresented in medical careers (African Americans and Latinos) with a group that is similarly religious but comparatively wellrepresented in medical professions (Korean Americans). Drawing on data from focus groups with 19 pastors representing 18 different congregations and 28 interviews with church members, we find that churches across all three groups promote initiatives to care for the physical health of their members. Nonetheless, notable differences exist in how each group frames the interface between religious faith and physical health. African Americans and Latinos highlighted the role of faith in providing physical healing while Korean Americans saw the support of the religious community as the main benefit of their faith. Distrust of medicine was primarily articulated by members of African American churches. The results offer important implications for the future potential and nature of health initiatives in racial minority communities.Word Count: 235

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“…The perceived correlation of more public disclosures with and shame upon the family may potentially add to the issue of African Americans' underutilization of mental health services, as well as negatively influence help seeking behaviors. Prior studies (Alvidrez, 1999;Sirey et al, 2001;Ward et al, 2009;Dempsey et al, 2016) lend credence to this association. Kearns, Muldoon, Msetfi, and Surgenor (2015) examined help-seeking attitudes among university students, specifically exploring the role of group identity, stigma, and exposure to suicide.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Also serving as a potential barrier to mental health care in relation to stigmas, is the issue of shame. African Americans may experience personal shame in regard to seeking mental health treatment (Dempsey, Butler, & Gaither, 2016) in addition, project shame upon friends who seek treatment, due to beliefs that mental illness should stay in the family (Diala et al, 2000). Alvidrez (1999) studied predictors for psychological service utilization among an ethnically diverse population of women.…”

Section: Stigmamentioning

confidence: 99%

An examination of the help seeking behaviors of African American women with adverse childhood experiences

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Black Churches and Mental Health Professionals

Cited by 45 publications

References 31 publications

Racial/ethnic differences in perception of need for mental health treatment in a US national sample

Racial/ethnic differences in perception of need for mental health treatment in a US national sample

Heaven and Health: How Black, Latino, and Korean Christians View the Relationship between Faith and Health

An examination of the help seeking behaviors of African American women with adverse childhood experiences

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