"Dem sey mi mad": a scoping review of the attitudes and beliefs of English-speaking Afro-Caribbeans about psychosis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The mental health disparities suffered by the English-speaking Afro-Caribbean diaspora living with psychosis in North America and the United Kingdom have been well described for decades, but the root causes of these disparities remain poorly understood. Part of the problem may be that the attitudes and beliefs of Caribbean communities regarding psychosis have never been systematically assessed. Such an inquiry could lay the foundation for changes to how psychiatric services for psychosis are implemented with migrant Caribbean communities. The ideal would be a re-design of services, or cultural adaptation of care, based on input from community members, patients, and their families, with the hope that disparities of care would be reduced or eliminated as clinicians co-cr

SUBMITTER: Knight S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11366823 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature