Understanding treatment attitudes in the path towards trauma recovery in urban-dwelling trauma-exposed Latinx adults

ABSTRACT

Trauma-exposed Latinx adults experience mental-health treatment disparities. Study aims examine the multilayered recovery needs of this population through assessing domains of functioning on mental health treatment attitudes. Secondary data analysis of patient-level data (N = 336) examined direct effects of functioning and quality of life (QOL) on treatment attitudes using hierarchical linear regression. Findings revealed occupational-disability (t = 3.12, p = .012, β = 0.208) and QOL-environmental domain (t = 2.54, p = .002, β = 0.174) were positively associated with treatment attitudes. Concurrent support that promotes community connections and resource knowledge can mitigate attitudinal barriers to care to maximize positive treatment outcomes for trauma-exposed Latinx adults.

KEYWORDS:

• Trauma
• mental health treatment attitudes
• quality of life
• Latinx adults

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This is to acknowledge there are no financial interests or benefit that have arisen from the direct applications of the presented research