DOC 714-Week 8 Discussion Post 2

Program of Study

DHA: Doctor of Healthcare Administration

Problem Statement

The problem is that factors contributing to poor access to mental healthcare and mental healthcare resources among ethnic minority groups, resulting in decreased consumption of mental healthcare resources and increased morbidity, mortality, and functional decline, have not been explored and thereby not adequately addressed (Snowden et al., 2022).

Purpose Statement

The purpose of this proposed qualitative study, using the case study design, is to explore the factors contributing to poor access to mental healthcare among ethnic

minority groups, and highlight potential address measures as perceived by the population.

Theories

There is a consensus on the significance of mental healthcare in individual and community wellness. Several research studies highlight the importance of mental healthcare and mental healthcare resource utilization and how it shapes health and wellness across diverse populations. The thematic areas of perceived barriers to mental healthcare across ethnic minority groups, disparities in mental healthcare across ethnic minority groups, and quality improvement in mental healthcare apply to the proposed research.

The proposed research study will significantly borrow from the literature on the perceived barriers to mental healthcare and resource utilization. It will interrogate the perception of the community under scrutiny on mental health illnesses and the perceived barriers to mental healthcare. This will establish a link between the highlighted barriers to mental healthcare access and poor mental health and mental healthcare in the population under scrutiny (Muhorakeye & Biracyaza, 2021). The proposed research will elucidate some of the underexplored factors contributing to poor access to mental healthcare and resource utilization, as well as prove the existence of the identified barriers to mental healthcare identified from the literature. The highlighted theme will, in this respect, inform the working hypotheses and help evaluate the research study.

Disparity in mental healthcare across ethnic minority groups is another theme that is applicable to the proposed research. This thematic area signifies the perpetuity of poor access to mental healthcare and mental healthcare resources across ethnic minority groups (Samartzis and Talias, 2019). The proposed research will inform the need for escalating efforts toward eliminating mental health disparities in otherwise underserved communities by affirming the continued existence of mental health disparity.

Quality improvement in mental healthcare is another theme applicable to the proposed research. Previous studies that highlighted barriers to mental healthcare continue to enable quality improvement in healthcare by informing potential improvement areas in mental healthcare (Frandsen et al., 2021). The proposed research informs quality improvement in mental healthcare by highlighting factors contributing to poor access to mental healthcare that are otherwise underexplored.

References

Frandsen, T. F., Lindhardt, C. L., & Eriksen, M. B. (2021). Performance of conceptual framework elements for the retrieval of qualitative health literature: A case study. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 109(3). https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2021.1150

Muhorakeye, O., & Biracyaza, E. (2021). Exploring barriers to mental health services utilization at Kabutare District Hospital of Rwanda: Perspectives from patients. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.638377

Samartzis, L., & Talias, M. A. (2019). Assessing and Improving the Quality in Mental Health Services. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(1), 249. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010249

Snowden, L. R., Cordell, K., & Bui, J. (2022). Racial and ethnic disparities in health status and community functioning among persons with untreated mental illness. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 10(5), 2175–2184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022- 01397-1

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DOC 714-Week 8 Discussion Post 2

Rather than a standard discussion post, this discussion is a peer-review format. This discussion topic corresponds to Section 9: Topic Theories (see template).

Every dissertation needs to have a theoretical foundation or a conceptual framework (or both if conducting a mixed methods research) discussion in the literature review section. The theoretical framework will be the lens (perspective) through which you evaluate your research problem and research questions. A theoretical framework is typically required for quantitative studies, while a conceptual framework can be used in qualitative studies. Yet, both theoretical and conceptual frameworks can be used for either quantitative or qualitative studies, depending on the theorist/literature. As a doctoral student, you need to justify your lens (perspective) to the reader.

For the peer review, write a substantiated 275- to 300-word response to the following:

• State your program of study.
• State your 1-sentence problem statement.
  

  DOC 714-Week 8 Discussion Post 2

• State your 1-sentence purpose statement.
• Identify a minimum of 3 theories that would be applicable to your proposed research and explain in a scholarly tone how those theories would frame your research. For example:
  • An educational researcher focused on a study about curriculum might use a theory from John Dewey, Howard Gardner, Jean Piaget, etc.
  • A researcher in any professional field focused on a study about human motivation might consider Abraham Maslow, Frederick Herzberg, David McClelland, etc.
  • A researcher in any professional field focused on a study about communication may consider S.F. Scudder, Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver, Aristotle, etc.

Substantiate your discussion using peer-reviewed literature, and include proper citations and references.

Your faculty member and classmates will provide feedback in preparation for the Wk 8 – Summative Assessment: Prospectus assignment submission.

Here is the reading material for week 8:

• https://methods.sagepub.com/book/sampling-essentials/n1.xml