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The Latinx community faces an increasing amount of mental health challenges and disparities in care. While the contributing factors are complex, there are likely potential barriers related to connecting with mental health support and accessing care that can be addressed.Methods
To investigate barriers in connecting to mental health care, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of mental health service use and barriers in an urban community with a primarily Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity using a modified random walk approach for door-to-door data collection with a two-cluster sampling frame. Survey included questions on socio-demographic, mental health status, desire and attempt to seek care, and the Barriers to Access to Care Evaluation. Shapley additive explanation (SH"],"journal":["BMC public health"],"pubmed_title":["Mental health care-seeking and barriers: a cross-sectional study of an urban Latinx community."],"pmcid":["PMC11545330"],"funding_grant_id":["R01MD018201","R01 MD018201"],"pubmed_authors":["Gunturkun F","Gonzalez D","Hedlin H","Garcia G","Newberry JA","Gimenez MA","Villa E","Espinosa PR","Maldonado M","Kaysen D"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Mental health care-seeking and barriers: a cross-sectional study of an urban Latinx community.","description":"Background
The Latinx community faces an increasing amount of mental health challenges and disparities in care. While the contributing factors are complex, there are likely potential barriers related to connecting with mental health support and accessing care that can be addressed.Methods
To investigate barriers in connecting to mental health care, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of mental health service use and barriers in an urban community with a primarily Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity using a modified random walk approach for door-to-door data collection with a two-cluster sampling frame. Survey included questions on socio-demographic, mental health status, desire and attempt to seek care, and the Barriers to Access to Care Evaluation. Shapley additive explanation (SH","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Nov","modification":"2026-07-16T19:52:05.604Z","creation":"2025-04-06T02:53:56.921Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11545330","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39516848"],"doi":["10.1186/s12889-024-20533-6"]}}