Healio (9/29, VanDewater) reports, “People from historically underrepresented groups with depression symptoms more often expressed wanting a” clinician “who shared or understood their culture,” investigators concluded after collecting and then analyzing “questionnaire information from 3,910 adults (median age, 52 years; 60.9% women) who participated in the 2017 U.S. National Health Interview Survey,” then examining “responses to cultural competency, anxiety and depression questions.” The findings of the “retrospective, population-based, cross-sectional study” were published online Sept. 23 in The Lancet Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Depressed patients’ desire for culturally competent providers differs by race, ethnicity “Kalie VanDewater, Healio, September 29, 2021