Characteristics of Patients and Patterns of Psychiatric Service Use in Ethnic Minorities

Abstract

Ethnic diversity both in the characteristics of patients and their patterns of psychiatric care should be addressed when planning and developing services.

How people of African Caribbean or Irish ethnicity cope with long‐term health conditions in UK community settings: A systematic review of qualitative, quantitative and mixed method studies

“…Apart from one study conducted in 1963 (Kiev, 1963), all others were conducted between 1998 and 2019. Only five papers focused on the Irish population (Bhui et al., 2008; Breslin & Lewis, 2017; Commander et al., 2003; Cooper et al., 2008; Kerrigan & Green, 2018) and 24 explored the African Caribbean population. Most papers covered other ethnic groups in addition to the African Caribbean or Irish populations.…”

“…Two papers grouped the Irish sample with other white minority groups. These studies were retained as they included African and Caribbean samples (Commander et al., 2003; Cooper et al., 2008).…”

A predictive model to allocate frequent service users of community-based Mental Health Services to different packages of care

“…Several factors have been associated with a greater utilisation of mental health services, such as personality factors (Goodwin et al, 2002), sex (Albizu-Garcia et al, 2001;Lindamer et al, 2003), an individuals' recovery style (Tait et al, 2003;Slade et al, 2008), diagnosis (Keown et al, 2005;Mojtabai et al, 2005), socio-economic status (Tansella, 2007) and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics in schizophrenic patients (Carr et al, 2003;Percudani et al, 2003). Furthermore, psychiatric service use by ethnic minorities (Commander et al, 2003) and accessibility and pathways to psychiatric care have also been studied Bhui et al, 2003). An Italian study has confirmed the effects of patients' psychopathology and users' characteristics in the clinicians' dispositional process (Rossi et al, 2006).…”

Lessons from the Mental Health Act Commission for England and Wales: The Limitations of Legalism-Plus-Safeguards

“…A further indication that Tudor-Hart's arguments about the inverse care law need to be applied cautiously in relation to mental healthcare is the pattern of MHAC findings on race, age and gender. As we saw earlier from the MHAC report, Black African and Black African-Caribbean patients are over-represented in compulsorily detained parts of the mental healthcare system and we also know that they are under-represented in primary mental healthcare, with its ethos of voluntarism (Nazroo, 2003; Commander et al ., 2003).…”