A cross-national study on prevalence of mental disorders, service use, and adequacy of treatment among Mexican and Mexican American populations.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined differences in the use of mental health services, conditional on the presence of psychiatric disorders, across groups of Mexico's population with different US migration exposure and in successive generations of Mexican Americans in the United States.

Methods

We merged surveys conducted in Mexico (Mexican National Comorbidity Survey, 2001-2002) and the United States (Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys, 2001-2003). We compared psychiatric disorders and mental health service use, assessed in both countries with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, across migration groups.

Results

The 12-month prevalence of any disorder was more than twice as high among third- and higher generation Mexican Americans (21%) than among Mexicans

SUBMITTER: Orozco R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3780667 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature