Mental health literacy as a mediator in use of mental health services among older korean adults

Kim, Young Sun; Rhee, Taeho Greg; Lee, Hee Yun; Park, Byung Hyun; Sharratt, Monica

doi:10.1017/s1041610216001721

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“…The characteristics of older persons in terms of the prevalence and type of mental disorders, especially AD, require special attention and research (Scazufca et al, 2010;Werner, 2005). Even studies assessing general mental health literacy emphasize that efforts to improve mental health literacy may need to particularly target older adults with relevant sociodemographic characteristics (Kim et al, 2017). This and other limitations make it difficult to assess the representativeness of published results.…”

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The Dunedin dementia risk awareness project: pilot study in older adults

Barak

Gray

Rapsey

et al. 2019

Int. Psychogeriatr.

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Aims:The USA and UK governmental and academic agencies suggest that up to 35% of dementia cases are preventable. We canvassed dementia risk and protective factor awareness among New Zealand older adults to inform the design of a larger survey.Method:The modified Lifestyle for Brain Health scale quantifying dementia risk was introduced to a sample of 304 eligible self-selected participants.Results:Two hundred and sixteen older adults (≥50 years), with mean ± standard deviation age 65.5 ± 11.4 years (50–93 years), completed the survey (71% response rate). Respondents were mostly women (n = 172, 80%), European (n = 207, 96%), and well educated (n = 100, 46%, with a tertiary qualification; including n = 17, 8%, with a postgraduate qualification). Around half of the participants felt that they were at a future risk of living with dementia (n = 101, 47%), and the majority felt that this would change their lives significantly (n = 205, 95%), that lifestyle changes would reduce their risk (n = 197, 91%), and that they could make the necessary changes (n = 189, 88%) and wished to start changes soon (n = 160, 74%). Only 4 of 14 modifiable risk or protective factors for dementia were adequately identified by the participants: physical exercise (81%), depression (76%), brain exercises (75%), and social isolation (83%). Social isolation was the commonly cited risk factor for dementia, while physical exercise was the commonly cited protective factor. Three clusters of brain health literacy were identified: psychosocial, medical, and modifiable.Conclusion:The older adults in our study are not adequately knowledgeable about dementia risk and protective factors. However, they report optimism about modifying risks through lifestyle interventions.

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The Dunedin dementia risk awareness project: pilot study in older adults

Barak

Gray

Rapsey

et al. 2019

Int. Psychogeriatr.

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“…Y. S. reported that older adults (age 65 years and older) had difficulty recognizing their mental health issues and had limited knowledge of selfhelp strategies. Y. S. Kim, Rhee, et al (2017) reported in their study of older Koreans in Korea that mental HL was a significant mediator between participants utilization of mental health services and their education, general literacy, and health status.…”

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Evaluation of Health Literacy and Depression Literacy Among Korean Americans

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Low health literacy is closely related to a higher rate of hospitalization and of emergency services usage, leading to billions of dollars in avoidable health care costs and contributing to individuals’ poor physical and mental health. While Korean Americans (KAs) have a high prevalence of general health and mental health problems, relatively little is known about their health and mental health literacy, specifically their depression literacy. This study aims to evaluate KAs’ health literacy and depression literacy, as related to sociodemographic characteristics. An exploratory study was conducted with 681 community-residing adult KAs using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale, the Depression Literacy Questionnaire (D-Lit), and the One-Question Health Literacy Scale. Data analyses were performed using one-way analysis of variance and ordinal logistic regression of health literacy, a multiple linear regression model of depression literacy. Findings indicate a positive correlation between depression literacy and health literacy. Health literacy was also significantly related to religion, English language proficiency, income, education, and perceived physical health. Additionally, depression literacy was significantly related to age, Korean language preference over English, and education. Health literacy and depression literacy education are warranted to address low health literacy and depression literacy among KAs to reduce their health and mental health disparities.

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“…Detection of fake news might represent a proxy for other proximal and intermediate causal factors and mechanisms that could explain the acceptance of a vaccine. The mediating role of HL has been assessed in several associations like between socio-economic status and health, 22 population characteristics and use of health services 23 or between education and health outcomes. 24 The role of HL in the relation between detection of fake news and vaccine hesitancy has not been explored, yet.…”

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Acceptance of a Covid-19 vaccine is associated with ability to detect fake news and health literacy

Montagni

Ouazzani-Touhami

Mebarki³

et al. 2021

Journal of Public Health

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Background During the Covid-19 pandemic fake news has been circulating impacting on the general population’s opinion about a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2. Health literacy measures the capacity of navigating health information. Methods We used data from a prospective national online cohort of 1647 participants. Descriptive statistics, Chi2 and ANOVA independence tests and two multivariable multinomial regression models were performed. Interactions between each variable were tested. Results Detection of fake news and health literacy scores were associated with intention to get vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 (p < 0.01). The risk of being “anti-vaccination” or “hesitant”, rather than “pro-vaccination”, was higher among individuals reporting bad detection of fake news, respectively OR = 1.93 (95%CI = [1.30;2.87]) and OR = 1.80 (95%CI = [1.29;2.52]). The risk of being in “hesitant”, rather than “pro-vaccination” was higher among individuals having a bad health literacy score (OR = 1.44; 95%CI = [1.04;2.00]). No interaction was found between detection of fake news and health literacy. Conclusions To promote acceptance of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, it is recommended to increase individuals’ ability to detect fake news and health literacy through education and communication programs.

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Mental health literacy as a mediator in use of mental health services among older korean adults

Abstract: Efforts to improve mental health literacy through community-based education programs may need to particularly target Korean older adults with the relevant socio-demographic characteristics to enhance their utilization of appropriate mental health services.

Cited by 26 publications

References 53 publications

The Dunedin dementia risk awareness project: pilot study in older adults

The Dunedin dementia risk awareness project: pilot study in older adults

Evaluation of Health Literacy and Depression Literacy Among Korean Americans

Acceptance of a Covid-19 vaccine is associated with ability to detect fake news and health literacy

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