Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (all authors); New England Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut (Rosenheck).
Psychiatr Serv. 2022 Mar 1;73(3):339-342. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202100093. Epub 2021 Jul 29.
This study aimed to examine the proportion of U.S. mental health facilities that provide non-English language services.
Using data from the 2018 National Mental Health Services Survey, the authors examined differences between mental health facilities that provided non-English language services and those that did not across 23 organizational characteristics. Further analyses compared facilities by their method of language service provision.
Of 7,503 facilities, 5,186 (69.1%) provided non-English language services. These facilities were more likely than others to have high patient volume, be publicly owned, and be located in the 10 states with the highest percentage of residents with limited English proficiency. Among facilities with language services, 592 (11.4%) relied on multilingual staff, 2,532 (48.8%) relied on external on-call interpreters, and 2,062 (39.8%) relied on both.
Most mental health facilities provide non-English language services, and those that do tend to be large public organizations located in areas of greatest need.
本研究旨在调查美国精神卫生机构提供非英语语言服务的比例。
作者使用 2018 年国家心理健康服务调查的数据，研究了提供非英语语言服务的精神卫生机构与不提供非英语语言服务的机构在 23 个组织特征方面的差异。进一步的分析比较了按语言服务提供方式划分的设施。
在 7503 家机构中，有 5186 家（69.1%）提供非英语语言服务。这些机构比其他机构更有可能拥有大量患者，为公有制，并且位于英语水平有限的居民比例最高的 10 个州。在有语言服务的机构中，有 592 家（11.4%）依靠多语言工作人员，2532 家（48.8%）依靠外部随叫随到的口译员，2062 家（39.8%）则两者兼而有之。
大多数精神卫生机构提供非英语语言服务，而且这些机构往往是位于最需要的地区的大型公立组织。
