Racial/ethnic differences in perception of need for mental health treatment in a US national sample.
Joshua BreslauMatthew CefaluEunice C WongM Audrey BurnamGerald P HunterKaren R FlorezRebecca L CollinsPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2017)
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.