"Sorry, I'm Not Accepting New Patients": An Audit Study of Access to Mental Health Care.
| Autor: | Kugelmass, Heather |
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HEALTH services accessibility
MENTAL health services PSYCHOTHERAPIST-patient relations RACE discrimination in mental health services WORKING class HELP-seeking behavior VOICE mail systems MIDDLE class MENTAL illness treatment BLACK people MENTAL health SEX distribution WHITE people SOCIOECONOMIC factors |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Health & Social Behavior; Jun2016, Vol. 57 Issue 2, p168-183, 16p, 1 Diagram, 1 Chart, 5 Graphs |
| Abstrakt: | Through a phone-based field experiment, I investigated the effect of mental help seekers' race, class, and gender on the accessibility of psychotherapists. Three hundred and twenty psychotherapists each received voicemail messages from one black middle-class and one white middle-class help seeker, or from one black working-class and one white working-class help seeker, requesting an appointment. The results revealed an otherwise invisible form of discrimination. Middle-class help seekers had appointment offer rates almost three times higher than their working-class counterparts. Race differences emerged only among middle-class help-seekers, with blacks considerably less likely than whites to be offered an appointment. Average appointment offer rates were equivalent across gender, but women were favored over men for appointment offers in their preferred time range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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