Healthcare
By the Numbers
Video Info
The Root
Solutions
100

This public health organization defined Mental Health as "emotional, psychological, and social well-being."

What is the CDC

(How we think, feel, and act)

100

1 in 20 Asian Americans struggle with this mental health disorder, which is much lower than the national average.

What is a Substance Use Disorder
100

This US Surgeon General said that, "every time one person stands up and shares their story... they give permission to other people around them to share their story too."


Who is Vivek Murthy

100

This is one of the OVERALL root causes of the mental health crisis seen in Asian Americans today

What is culture, stigma, or barriers to care

(answers relating to these will be accepted)


100

Dr. Vivek Murthy said he is optimistic that, through story telling and sharing, mental health can be viewed not as a source of weakness, but a source of this

What is strength

200

**Double Jeopardy**

Asian Americans are this many times LESS LIKELY to seek mental health care than white Americans

What is 3x less likely

200

Currently, 2 out 5 Asian Americans report symptoms of this

Acceptable Answers:

Anxiety

Depression

200

Helen Zia, Asian American author and activist, spoke with this group of Asian Americans about their struggles to be open with mental health.

Who are Asian American elders OR Asian American immigrants

200

**Double Jeopardy**

This is a stereotype which describes Asian Americans as "effortlessly successful"

What is the model minority

200

You should treat your mental health as if it were this

What is your physical health
300

Between 2013 -2016, this act caused the uninsured rate of non-elderly Asian Americans to drop from 15% to 8%?

What is the Affordable Care Act

300

Facing discrimination makes Asian Americans this many times MORE LIKELY to experience depression or anxiety

What is 2x more likely

300

In her college years, Dr. Dimple Patel, out of shame for herself, secretly began doing THIS once she realized that her mental health was struggling.

What is going to a therapist

300

One of the systematic barriers to mental health care for Asian Americans is that there is a lack of providers who understand THIS for Asian Americans

Acceptable answers: What is cultural background, language, medical history, etc.

300

As opposed to "cultural competency", this is now being promoted by many health professionals and anthropologists as an alternative

What is cultural sensitivity

400

This is the rate of Asian Americans which are uninsured

What is roughly 1/10 or 8%

400

**Double Jeopardy**

This is the fraction of Asian Americans that will experience a mental health illness within their lifetime

What is roughly 1 in 6, or 16.4%

400

This Asian American immigrant from Vietnam went viral on TikTok after sharing her mental health struggles with the world

Who is Thea Pham

400

Especially in Asian American cultures stigma, or social disproval, around mental health can lead to feelings of this

Many acceptable answers:

What is shame, familial disappointment, fear of being treated differently, internalizing, etc.

400

**Double Jeopardy**

Besides free counseling services, this was one of the mental health resources that we mentioned OSU provides to students

What is BioFeedback or the PsychByte podcast

500

This is the fraction of Asian Americans who report needing help accessing mental health services

Roughly 3 out of 5, or 55%-62%

500

This ethnic group within Asian Americans is half as likely to report mental health struggles with depression as Korean Americans

What are Chinese Americans

(1 in 6 to 1 in 3)

500

When Helen Zia, Asian American author and activist, asked Asian Americans about their mental health struggles, many responded by saying this.

(many acceptable answers)

What is

Acceptable answers:

"I'm telling you this for the first time"

"I've never told anybody"

"I didn't think anybody wanted to listen/hear"

"you're the first person that's asked"


500

The APA found in a study that Asian American college students are more likely to correlate poor mental health attitudes with a lack of this

What is emotional self-control

500

Dr. Dimple Patel shared the story of her mother's suicide because she wanted to raise awareness of the crisis in mental health for Asian Americans, and for people to know that it is okay to do what?

It is okay to ask for help

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