Thomson Mary Susan, Chaze Ferzana, George Usha, Guruge Sepali
Ontario Multicultural Health Applied Research Network, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada.
, 99 Gerrard Street East, SHE-690, Toronto, M5B 2K3, Canada.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2015 Dec;17(6):1895-905. doi: 10.1007/s10903-015-0175-3.
This article emerges from a scoping review of over two decades of relevant literature on immigrants' access to mental health services in Canada. Key online databases were searched to explore the gaps and opportunities for improving access to mental health services using a review framework provided by Arksey and O'Malley (Int J Soc Res Methodol 8:19-32, 2005). Immigrants and refugees came from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds and had complex mental health-related concerns that were not currently being adequately addressed by existing services. The major barriers to the utilization of mental health services included: those related to the uptake of existing health information and services; those that were related to the process of immigrant settlement; and barriers related to availability of appropriate services. A thematic analysis of the range of recommendations that emerge from these studies for improvement of research, practice and policy is provided.
本文源自对二十多年来加拿大移民获得心理健康服务的相关文献的范围界定综述。我们检索了主要在线数据库，以利用阿克西和奥马利提供的综述框架（《国际社会研究方法杂志》8:19 - 32，2005年）来探索改善心理健康服务可及性方面的差距和机会。移民和难民来自不同的宗教和文化背景，有着与心理健康相关的复杂问题，而现有服务目前并未充分解决这些问题。利用心理健康服务的主要障碍包括：与获取现有健康信息和服务相关的障碍；与移民定居过程相关的障碍；以及与适当服务的可获得性相关的障碍。本文还对这些研究中提出的一系列关于改进研究、实践和政策的建议进行了主题分析。
