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Racial and ethnic minorities like Asians in the United States are significantly less likely to receive mental health treatment than Caucasians. Using 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data, we examined the underutilization of mental health treatment in the US and find that being over 65 or 35–44, being unmarried, and being insured were positively associated with mental health treatment utilization, and as mentally unhealthy days increased, the utilization of treatment also increased. The paper offers a discussion on why there is this underutilization of mental health services amongst Asians and what steps can be taken to improve utilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is essential for healthcare institutions to accommodate the needs of the growing population of visually impaired patients. Hospital leaders must implement strategies to guarantee these patients' autonomy. We reviewed the literature and identified measures hospitals have implemented to accommodate visually impaired patients. To bridge gaps in the literature, we interviewed healthcare managers from five different hospitals in the United States. These interviews reveal that, while different levels of accommodations are already offered by those institutions, accommodations are generally extremely basic, and leave enormous room for improvement to ensure that the visually impaired receive proper care and dignified treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to demonstrate that children's health is a determinate of their education. In the United States, poor students who are less likely to have health insurance, thus having less access to regular preventive care and timely immunization, are more likely to suffer from disease. This suggests that such students are less likely to receive better education. In general, being more likely to be poor, ethnic and racial minority students have more barriers and less opportunities for being educated. Among these barriers are: often lacking transportation or a social support system, and the likelihood of being healthy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) has demonstrated good psychometric properties among different populations, but there is no known data on its validity among Russian-speaking medical students. The CBI-Student Survey focuses only on fatigue, but measures exhaustion in four different life domains: Personal Burnout (PB), Studies-Related Burnout (SRB), Colleague-Related Burnout (CRB), and Teacher-Related Burnout (TRB)., Objective: To investigate the psychometric properties of the Russian version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (R-CBI-S)., Design: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 771 medical students at Astana Medical University (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). Statistical analyses included test-retest reliability, internal consistency, item analysis, convergent and concurrent validity, and confirmatory factor analysis. Concurrent validity was evaluated by bivariate correlations of R-CBI-S with anxiety, depression, and satisfaction with the study., Results: Test-retest reliability showed an ICC of 0.81. All item-total correlations for the total scale were positive (range 0.31-0.76). The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.94 (0.896 for PB, 0.884 for SRB, 0.874 for CRB, and 0.926 for TRB). The Barlett's sphericity test result was significant (p < 0.001), and the KMO measure of sampling adequacy exceeded 0.947. Convergent validity analysis results: PB (AVE = 0.52, CR = 0.87), SRB (AVE = 0.50, CR = 0.87), CRB (AVE = 0.51, CR = 0.86), TRB (AVE = 0.56, CR = 0.88). The R-CBI-S achieved good levels of goodness-of-fit indices (RMSEA = 0.0611; CFI= 0.940; TLI = 0.933)., Conclusion: The test results indicated that the R-CBI-S scale appears to be a reliable and valid instrument. The R-CBI-S may be a useful tool in future research to identify burnout factors based on specific life domains for developing effective prevention measures among medical students., Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest., (© Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2021© Russian Psychological Society, 2021.)