Improving Depression Literacy

Latino adults in the United States face serious mental health care disparities.  A combination of person-level barriers, such as stigma, negative attitudes toward mental health treatments, and limited mental health literacy, contribute to these inequities in mental health care.  This factsheet includes information on how person-level barriers impact mental health care disparities in the Latino community.  The factsheet also describes how a depression literacy tool entitled “Secret Feelings” that integrate cultural elements from the Latino community and uses an entertainment-education approach can help address these barriers to care. Information includes results from studies indicating that the use of “Secret Feelings” may improve mental health care in the Latino community

Published
December 31, 2019
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