Help-Seeking for Mental Health Services in Asian American College Students: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Autor/inn/en	Dong, Heidi; Dai, Jane; Lipson, Sarah Ketchen; Curry, Leslie
Titel	Help-Seeking for Mental Health Services in Asian American College Students: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
Quelle	In: Journal of American College Health, 70 (2022) 8, S.2303-2310 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dong, Heidi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0744-8481
DOI	10.1080/07448481.2020.1851234
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Mental Health; Help Seeking; Asian American Students; College Environment; Student Attitudes; Social Support Groups; Proximity; Family Relationship; Barriers; Cultural Influences; Social Bias + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychohygiene; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Asian immigrant; United States; Student; Students; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hochschulumwelt; Schülerverhalten; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Lebensnähe; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss
Abstract	Objective: To understand how the college environment might influence mental health help-seeking in Asian American undergraduates. Participants: Participants were 19 Asian American undergraduates recruited through Facebook. Methods: Participants were interviewed about attitudes toward mental health and mental health help-seeking, and thematic analysis with both inductive and deductive codes was used to analyze interview transcripts. Results: Several factors specific to the college environment encourage students to seek help: social support provided by peers and by campuses, psychological distance from home, and physical distance from home. However, other Asian American-specific factors discourage students from seeking help, such as cultural factors and stigma surrounding mental health issues. Conclusions: The college environment may encourage help-seeking, while Asian American-specific factors may discourage it. Potential interventions based on these findings may increase help-seeking rates by focusing on these encouraging factors in a culturally-sensitive way. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01