What stops Korean immigrants from accessing child and adolescent mental health services?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access to child and adolescent mental health services by ethnic minorities has been poorly studied. Despite rapid growth of the immigrant Korean population, evidence indicates that few Korean families utilise these services in New Zealand. Those that do tend to present late and with significant morbidity. We sought to understand barriers to service access from Korean parents' perspectives.

Method

Seven focus groups were undertaken with 31 Korean parents of children aged 18 and under. The focus groups were semi-structured, held in the Korean language and utilised two case scenarios of common childhood/adolescent mental illnesses around which a set of broad, open-ended questions were posed. All conversations were audiorecorded, transcribed and translated into Englis

SUBMITTER: Park C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8895579 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature