Asians Less Likely Than Black Or White People To Be Satisfied With Specialist Community Mental Health Services, UK

A new study examining ethnic differences in patients’ experiences of specialist community mental health services has found that relative to White British people, Asian service users were most likely to respond negatively. In some aspects of services, no ethnic differences were apparent. Minority ethnic groups in the UK are reported to have a poor experience of mental health services, but until now comparative information has been scarce. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Mental Health on October 5th, 2007