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