Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Disparities Research Unit.
J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2023 Jul;132(5):590-593. doi: 10.1037/abn0000842.
Intersectional and multilevel approaches are required to tackle mental health disparities for marginalized populations. Intersectionality offers a guiding framework to study how social structures and systems work at multiple socioecological levels to influence the health and well-being of minoritized communities. This special section showcases research using intersectional approaches elucidating mental health and psychopathology outcomes among diverse populations. This commentary briefly summarizes five articles in this special section and discusses their contributions to health disparities research. These articles apply multilevel approaches to investigating how institutional and systemic marginalization impact mental health burden among understudied populations, including sexual and gender minority populations of color and Indigenous people. The studies also highlight future directions for research on the explanatory mechanisms of intersectionality that open the door to designing preventive interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
需要采用交叉和多层次的方法来解决边缘化群体的心理健康差距问题。交叉性提供了一个指导框架,用于研究社会结构和系统如何在多个社会生态层面上运作,从而影响少数群体社区的健康和福祉。本特刊展示了使用交叉方法研究不同人群的心理健康和精神病理学结果的研究。本评论简要总结了本特刊中的五篇文章,并讨论了它们对健康差距研究的贡献。这些文章采用多层次方法研究制度和系统性边缘化如何影响研究不足的人群(包括有色人种和土著性少数群体中的性和性别少数群体)的心理健康负担。这些研究还突出了交叉性解释机制研究的未来方向,为设计预防干预措施开辟了道路。(PsycInfo 数据库记录(c)2023 APA,保留所有权利)。