Study focuses on Latino depression – Rhode Island

“Latinos have a depression rate similar to non-Latino whites, yet studies show they receive less treatment and have poorer treatment outcomes for their depression. For some reason Latino patients do not stick with their treatment, which often takes place in a different facility than the primary care settings where they are screened and diagnosed.

In an effort to find out why that is, the Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island NHPRI was awarded a $261,000 grant from Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, an arm of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to come up with ways to improve screening, diagnosis, and especially treatment of depression in primary care settings for Latino patients by closely monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the care they are getting. Ten other health-related organizations across the country received similar grants.”

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