非洲裔美国人与严重的精神疾病和心血管疾病的生活经历:一个综合性视角
Margaret Salisu1, Carla Boutin-Foster1, Laura Geer2
1College of Medicine, Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, United States.
Frontiers in psychiatry
|December 26, 2025
概括
患有严重精神疾病 (SMI) 和心血管疾病 (CVD) 的非裔美国人经历了疾病相互依赖. 结构不平等,环境因素和对医疗保健的不信任造成了健康状况不佳的循环,需要综合护理.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
背景情况:
- 患有严重精神疾病 (SMI) 的非裔美国人不成比例地患有心血管疾病 (CVD).
- 关于SMI和CVD的个体如何感知和管理这些相互关联的条件,我们知之甚少.
- 结构性不平等加剧了生物脆弱性,导致健康差距.
研究的目的:
- 探索SMI和CVD的非洲裔美国成年人如何理解和导航他们的条件之间的相互作用.
- 为了确定管理共患性SMI和CVD的上下文障碍和促进者.
- 在这个人群中开发综合性相互依赖的理论模型.
主要方法:
- 接地理论和综合症理论指导了这项研究.
- 半结构面试对23名被诊断患有SMI和报告心血管疾病的非裔美国成年人进行了采访.
- 常规比较分析被用来识别模式,并开发一个理论模型.
主要成果:
- 综合性相互依赖成为核心概念,描述SMI和CVD如何相互加强.
- 精神症状阻碍了心血管疾病管理,而心血管疾病并发症加剧了精神疾病.
- 结构因素 (例如,公共援助,粮食不安全),环境影响 (例如,不安全的住房,暴力),以及对医疗保健的不信任加剧了疾病的发展轨迹.
结论:
- 这些发现说明了个人对SMI-CVD纠在结构和环境约束中的概念化.
- 需要综合,以公平为重点的护理模式,同时解决这两种情况.
- 解决结构性和制度性力量对于破坏SMI-CVD相互依赖和健康差异至关重要.
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