Use of Mental Health Care and Unmet Needs for Health Care Among Lesbian and Bisexual Chinese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-American Women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined associations between sexual orientation of Asian-American women and receipt of mental health care and unmet need for health care.

Methods

Computer-assisted self-interviews were conducted with 701 unmarried Chinese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-American women ages 18 to 35. Multivariate regression models examined whether lesbian and bisexual participants differed from exclusively heterosexual participants in use of mental health care and unmet need for health care.

Results

After the analyses controlled for mental health status and other covariates, lesbian and bisexual women were more likely than exclusively heterosexual women to have received any past-year mental health services and reported a greater unmet need for health care. Sexual-minori

SUBMITTER: Hahm HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5133151 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature