Psychiatric News (5/3) reports, “Even as the number of people who identify as Hispanic in the United States grew by an estimated 5.2 million people (or about 4.5%) between 2014 and 2019, the proportion of U.S. mental health treatment facilities offering services in Spanish fell by nearly 18%,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data from the National Mental Health Services Survey” that “focused on data collected from 13,015 facilities in 2014 and 12,345 facilities in 2019.” Investigators also found that “among states with the fastest Hispanic population growth, several also experienced the greatest reduction in Spanish-language services.” The findings were published online May 3 in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
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— “Study Reveals Drop in Spanish-Language Services at U.S. Mental Health Treatment Facilities, Psychiatric News , May 3, 2022