Minorities prefer depression counseling to drugs
‘When it comes to depression therapy, minorities are more likely than whites to prefer counseling to medication, according to a large U.S. survey.
In an Internet survey of about 75,000 Americans, researchers found that African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans were two to three times more likely than whites to say they’d rather be treated with talk therapy than with drugs for depression.
Minorities were also less likely to believe that depression stems from biological changes in the brain and were more likely to think antidepressants are addictive, according to findings published in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry.’
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