A Narrative Inquiry of East Asian Parents and Mental Health in Canada: Critical Openings for Anti-Racism Strategies in Knowledge Translation.
Samantha Louie-Poon, Solina Richter, Diane Kunyk and 1 others
PMID 40094584WHAT IT FOUND
Eight East Asian parents described child mental health resources as hard to access because of cost, language and missing cultural terms.
They also said representation alone was not enough, because resources often did not understand their lived experience.
Key findings
01Parents described availability, affordability, language and vocabulary barriers, and lack of representation as access issues.
02They said resources developed without East Asian understanding, and some experiences cannot be fully understood without lived experience.
03Participants also described unlearning biases, making changes for their children, and using family and cultural roots as strength.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
Eight parents may not represent all East Asian families. No participants self-identified as Korean. One second interview recording was lost, so 15 of 16 interviews were included. The study did not test whether any resource changes access or mental health outcomes. Composite narratives were used to protect identities, which may affect transferability.
Declared interests
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest. The work was supported by the Intersections of Gender Thesis Grant and a Women and Children's Health Research Institute Graduate Studentship award, grant numbers RES0057716 and RES0054668.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that child mental health resources improved access or outcomes. This was a narrative study of eight parents, and it reports their themes about access, language, representation, and racial harm, not tested effects.