在新冠疫情期间，医疗服务可及性、社会支持与韩裔美国人心理健康状况之间的关联。
Associations between accessibility to health care service, social support, and Korean Americans' mental health status amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
机构信息
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 21218, Baltimore, USA.
School of Social Work, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666, USA.
出版信息
BMC Public Health. 2021 Oct 27;21(1):1949. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11820-7.
BACKGROUND
While previous studies have examined the relationships between social support and health care accessibility among ethnic minority populations, studies on Korean Americans remain scarce. Therefore, this study aims to assess the relationship between Korean Americans' mental health, accessibility to health care, and how they perceive the level of social support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
METHOD/RESULT: We distributed online surveys to Korean Americans from May 24, 2020, to June 14, 2020, generating 790 responses from participants residing in 42 states. Binary Logistic and Ordinary Least Square regression analyses revealed that poor mental health was associated with language barriers inhibiting Korean Americans' access to COVID-19-related information. Their perceived social support from family members and close friends was positively associated with mental health.
CONCLUSION
Our findings recommend that equipping community health care services with translators or interpreters is necessary. Additionally, health practitioners and staff should be trained to utilize telehealth tools to effectively treat individuals with mental health problems. American policymakers and health care professionals need to understand and address the unique hardships Korean Americans experience amid COVID-19.
背景
虽然之前的研究已经考察了社会支持与少数民族人群获得医疗保健之间的关系，但针对韩裔美国人的研究仍然很少。因此，本研究旨在评估韩裔美国人的心理健康、获得医疗保健的机会以及他们在 COVID-19 大流行期间对社会支持程度的看法之间的关系。
方法/结果：我们于 2020 年 5 月 24 日至 6 月 14 日向来自 42 个州的韩裔美国人分发了在线调查，共收到 790 份参与者的回复。二项逻辑回归和普通最小二乘法回归分析表明，心理健康状况较差与语言障碍阻碍了韩裔美国人获取与 COVID-19 相关信息有关。他们从家庭成员和亲密朋友那里获得的感知社会支持与心理健康呈正相关。
结论
我们的研究结果表明，为社区医疗保健服务配备翻译或口译员是必要的。此外，医疗从业人员和工作人员应该接受培训，以利用远程医疗工具有效地治疗有心理健康问题的个体。美国政策制定者和医疗保健专业人员需要了解并解决韩裔美国人在 COVID-19 期间所经历的独特困难。
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