Disparities in Mental Health Care: An Annotated Bibliography for Psychiatry Training Programs

Significant disparities in mental health care exist for patients from minoritized racial and ethnic groups, including decreased access, poorer quality of care received, diagnostic bias, and worse treatment outcomes. Education and awareness of such disparities is necessary to improve outcomes; psychiatry training programs should include education on these disparities for trainees, in line with ACGME Milestone Systems Based Practice 2 and 3, Professionalism 2, and Practice-Based Learning and Improvement 1 and 2. To improve integration of these topics into psychiatry residency training, the authors created this annotated bibliography of articles on disparities in mental health care.

The authors searched PubMed for articles relevant to disparities in mental health care. Two members of the author team read each article independently, evaluating for generalizability, ability to impact future practice, quality of study design, and relative ease of understanding the text and findings.

The annotated bibliography contains a total of 35 articles recommended by the author team, divided into sections by topics (e.g., general psychiatry, outpatient psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, subspeciality topics), arranged by date of publication.