Barriers and facilitators to depression care among Latino men in a primary care setting: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the United States, Latinos face a wide array of cultural and structural barriers to accessing and utilizing mental health care. Latino men specifically are at high risk of receiving inadequate mental health care, possibly due to additional obstacles they experience that are related to masculinity. Among men more generally, greater adherence to emotional control and self-reliance is associated with higher depression severity and less depression help-seeking. Men experience more stigma toward depression and help-seeking and are less likely to be diagnosed with depression than women. However, Latino men's barriers and facilitators to depression care remain largely unexplored. The objective of this study was to examine barriers and facilitators to depression care that are

SUBMITTER: Swetlitz N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10799470 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature