Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Help Among East and Southeast Asian Immigrant and Refugee Women

Fung, Kenneth; Wong, Yuk‐Lin Renita

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“…Wong et al (2006) concluded that for Cambodian refugees in the United States, structural barriers such as the high cost of healthcare, poor access to healthcare, discrimination, and language problems were significant barriers to better health and health promotion. Similarly, immigrant and refugee women in Canada perceived lack of access to culturally, linguistically, and gender appropriate healthcare services as barriers to seeking healthcare (Fung and Wong 2007). …”

Section: Factors Affecting Health Of Older Immigrants and Refugeesmentioning

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Health Perception and Health Behaviors of Elder Tibetans Living in India and Switzerland

Wangmo

2011

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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Tibetan elders have lived in exile since the failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. Using mixed methods approach, this study explored the perceived health and health behaviors of 30 older Tibetans living in India and Switzerland using Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Model. Results indicate that elder Tibetans living in Switzerland enjoyed better health and well-being than those living in India. Because of the availability of old age benefits, pensions, and health insurance, participants in Switzerland had greater financial independence, and fewer problems with healthcare access and affordability than those in India. In addition to financial reimbursement, the contribution and importance of personal, familial, community, and religious factors to participant's health behaviors are examined. The study is a case example depicting the impact of different factors from micro to macro on the health and well-being of a refugee group. Its implications such as the implementation of old age benefits for older persons living in developing countries are discussed.

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“…For individuals to have good health, accessible, affordable, and efficient healthcare service is critical (Fung and Wong 2007;Wong et al 2006). They experienced negligible healthcare access in pre-1959 Tibet and moderate healthcare services in India.…”

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Health Perception and Health Behaviors of Elder Tibetans Living in India and Switzerland

Wangmo

2011

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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“…Goldberg and Huxley's model describes how patients go through various "filters" in order to reach care, including community help, primary care and secondary mental health services 6 . In non-Western cultures supernatural beliefs about mental disorders are common and traditional or religious healing is a large part of the response [7][8][9] . Western models of treatment seeking, cannot be considered typical and cannot easily be generalised to other cultures.…”

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Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia

Shoesmith

Borhanuddin

Lin

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Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Background: A better understanding is needed about how people make decisions about help seeking. Materials: Focus group and individual interviews with patients, carers, healthcare staff, religious authorities, traditional healers and community members. Discussion: Four stages of help seeking were identified: (1) noticing symptoms and initial labelling, (2) collective decision-making, (3) spiritual diagnoses and treatment and (4) psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Conclusion: Spiritual diagnoses have the advantage of being less stigmatising, giving meaning to symptoms, and were seen to offer hope of cure rather than just symptom control. Patients and carers need help to integrate different explanatory models into a meaningful whole.

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“…on Middle Eastern populations (Al-Krenawi et al 2009), Korean nationals (Yoo et al 2005), South-East Asians (Fung and Wong 2007) and Chinese Australians (Ho et al 2008), as well as comparisons between U.S. and Chinese college students (Chen and Mak 2008). Although these findings indicate cultural variation in help-seeking attitudes, a significant limitation is the failure to examine cross-cultural validity and factorial invariance across racial/cultural groups (Aegisdóttir et al 2008;Kwan and Gerstein 2008).…”

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Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale-Short Form in Mainland China

Fang

Pieterse

Friedlander

et al. 2011

Int J Adv Counselling

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This investigation tested the psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale-Short Form (ATSPPH-SF; Fisher and Farina [Journal of College Student Development, 36, 368-373, 1995]) in a sample of 338 Mainland Chinese college students. Using back-translation, the ATSPPH-SF was translated into simplified Chinese. Confirmatory factor analysis did not support the original one-factor model. Subsequently, exploratory factor analysis suggested a 7-item, two-factor model; however, the new factor structure yielded poor reliability coefficients, below .60. Results suggest that the help-seeking construct as operationalized by the ATSPPH-SF may not be valid for the Chinese population. The importance of designing indigenous instruments for help-seeking attitudes is discussed.

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Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Help Among East and Southeast Asian Immigrant and Refugee Women

Abstract: Perceived access is one of the main factors that influence attitudes toward seeking professional help. Explanatory models may predict help-seeking behaviours if perceived access to such services is available.

Cited by 114 publications

References 51 publications

Health Perception and Health Behaviors of Elder Tibetans Living in India and Switzerland

Health Perception and Health Behaviors of Elder Tibetans Living in India and Switzerland

Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia

Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale-Short Form in Mainland China

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