TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Communication Barriers
KW - Cultural Diversity
KW - Emigrants and Immigrants/psychology/statistics & numerical data
KW - Female
KW - Health Services Accessibility/organization & administration
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Mental Health Services
KW - Minority Groups/psychology/statistics & numerical data
KW - Needs Assessment/organization & administration
KW - Newfoundland and Labrador
KW - Nursing Methodology Research
KW - Patient Acceptance of Health Care/ethnology/statistics & numerical data
KW - Patient Education as Topic
KW - Pilot Projects
KW - Primary Health Care/organization & administration
KW - Questionnaires
KW - Stereotyping
KW - Trust
AU - S. Reitmanova
AU - D. L. Gustafson
A1 - 
AB - This article draws on an environmental scan and interviews with visible minority immigrants in a small urban Atlantic community to report on gaps and opportunities for improving access to information about primary mental health care services and barriers to utilization of these services. Information about services was limited and did not specifically address the complex health-related concerns of immigrants with diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Accessing information about mental health care services was challenging for some visible minority immigrants because of physical and financial constraints and limited computer and language literacy. The major barriers to the utilization of primary mental health care services were lack of information, language and literacy issues, a mistrust of primary mental health care services, the stigma associated with mental illness, long wait times, lack of finances, and religious and cultural differences and insensitivity. A list of nine recommendations, which may be of interest to mental health decision-makers and service providers in small urban centers with limited ethno-cultural diversity, is provided.
BT - Issues in Mental Health Nursing
C5 - Healthcare Disparities
CP - 10
CY - England
DO - 10.1080/01612840903033733
IS - 10
JF - Issues in Mental Health Nursing
N2 - This article draws on an environmental scan and interviews with visible minority immigrants in a small urban Atlantic community to report on gaps and opportunities for improving access to information about primary mental health care services and barriers to utilization of these services. Information about services was limited and did not specifically address the complex health-related concerns of immigrants with diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Accessing information about mental health care services was challenging for some visible minority immigrants because of physical and financial constraints and limited computer and language literacy. The major barriers to the utilization of primary mental health care services were lack of information, language and literacy issues, a mistrust of primary mental health care services, the stigma associated with mental illness, long wait times, lack of finances, and religious and cultural differences and insensitivity. A list of nine recommendations, which may be of interest to mental health decision-makers and service providers in small urban centers with limited ethno-cultural diversity, is provided.
PP - England
PY - 2009
SN - 1096-4673; 0161-2840
SP - 615
EP - 623
EP - 
T1 - Primary mental health care information and services for St. John's visible minority immigrants: Gaps and opportunities
T2 - Issues in Mental Health Nursing
TI - Primary mental health care information and services for St. John's visible minority immigrants: Gaps and opportunities
U1 - Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 19742371
U3 - 10.1080/01612840903033733
VL - 30
VO - 1096-4673; 0161-2840
Y1 - 2009
ER -