Investigating the use of services for Vietnamese with mental illness.
An ethnographic-based interview was conducted with 324 Vietnamese-speaking adult caregivers living in the New South Wales state of Australia, focusing on types of services used for identifying and/or intervening for binh tam than (mental ill-health), difficulties encountered, and recommendations for enhancing services. Almost one in two interviewees (n= 158) had used such services during the previous twelve months, including those provided by local Vietnamese-speaking doctors (100%), Asian naturalists, spiritual healers, witchcraft doctors, herbalists, and folk healers (>50%), as well as mainstream psychiatric hospital facilities (50%) and community services (>30%). Descriptive data on the difficulties and recommendations were related to four major domains: accessibility, acceptability, accommodation, and affordability, explaining patterns of caregivers' help-seeking behaviors and their choices of services.
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Flinders University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006300:Health Services Misuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008602:Mental Healing; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009517:New South Wales; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology*; D012036:Refugees; D012494:Sampling Studies; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology