Chen Ping, Hussey Jon M, Monbureau Timothy O
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box #8120, 206 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, USA.
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2018 Jun;20(3):619-631. doi: 10.1007/s10903-017-0597-1.
This research investigates the psychological well-being and usage of medical treatments by Asian and Hispanic immigrant descendants. Using data from all four waves of Add Health study, this paper focuses on two outcomes: (1) depression and (2) levels of antidepressant use by race/ethnicity, immigrant generation, and linguistic acculturation levels during adulthood. Findings reveal that depression is prevalent among Mexican Americans, other Hispanics, and Asian Americans. Furthermore, Mexican Americans and Asian Americans have reported a lower level of antidepressant use than whites, with Asian Americans attaining the lowest level when immigrant generation, language acculturation levels, and other socioeconomic factors are held constant. We also find that those who are linguistically less acculturated have much lower levels of antidepressant use than their monolingual English-speaking counterparts.
本研究调查了亚洲和西班牙裔移民后代的心理健康状况及医疗治疗的使用情况。利用“青少年健康纵向研究”（Add Health study）全部四轮的数据，本文聚焦于两个结果：（1）抑郁情况；（2）成年期按种族/族裔、移民代次和语言文化适应水平划分的抗抑郁药物使用水平。研究结果显示，抑郁症在墨西哥裔美国人、其他西班牙裔人和亚裔美国人中普遍存在。此外，墨西哥裔美国人和亚裔美国人报告的抗抑郁药物使用水平低于白人，在移民代次、语言文化适应水平和其他社会经济因素保持不变的情况下，亚裔美国人的使用水平最低。我们还发现，语言文化适应程度较低的人抗抑郁药物的使用水平远低于只说英语的同龄人。
