Help-Seeking Patterns and Barriers to Care Among Latino Immigrant Men with Unhealthy Alcohol Use

Impact of discrimination and coping on Veterans’ willingness to seek treatment for physical and mental health problems.

“…However, people of color (as a group) tend to experience higher rates of alcohol-related problems, despite drinking alcohol less frequently and in lower quantities (Witbrodt et al, 2014; Zapolski et al, 2014). They also tend to report more negative attitudes toward help-seeking and more perceived barriers to care (Carey et al, 2021; Powell et al, 2016; Spencer et al, 2010), and research examining stigma effects on treatment-seeking in military and Veteran samples is limited. Thus, this group is at high-risk for health care disparities, and research on this group specifically may provide information to improve treatment participation.…”

“…Barriers to treatment are compounded among individuals who identify as people of color. In civilian samples, people of color tend to report more negative attitudes toward help-seeking, more perceived barriers to care, and greater use of informal (vs. formal) support systems (Carey et al, 2021; Powell et al, 2016; Spencer et al, 2010). Although a variety of factors may contribute to treatment hesitancy in this population, experiences with discrimination seem to play a role.…”

Factors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Migrant Men: A Systematic Review

“…Impacts of mental health factors for migrant men are often exacerbated by low rates of service access. Barriers to help-seeking include stigma toward mental illness in some cultures, mistrust of Western mental health systems, difficulty accessing support services, and a preference to cope on their own ( Amri & Bemak, 2013 ; Carey et al, 2022 ; Fortuna et al, 2008 ; Selkirk et al, 2014 ).…”

Avoidable hospitalizations and access to primary care: comparisons among Italians, resident immigrants and undocumented immigrants in administrative hospital discharge records

“…Several limitations affected the study, including completeness and accuracy of diagnostic coding in administrative health records, limited individual characteristics (e.g. occupational position and health behaviors that may affect health needs and barriers to health care) 30 the lack of individual identity codes to account for repeated hospitalizations, to follow patients over time and link records to other demographic (individual socioeconomic status) and health records (e.g., emergency, ambulatory care), scarce information on undocumented immigrant populations in Italy and elsewhere (including information on the length of a patient's permanence in Italy). We cannot rule out the possibility that missing information on citizenship is non-random, although, as the flow chart shows, the number of exclusions was contained.…”