The Mental Health of Chinese Women in Britain 1945-2000

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Audio recordings and transcripts of interviews, along with questionnaires and other supporting documentation.

1999-2000

Uncatalogued: 1 transfer box, 39 audio cassettes, 2 floppy disks and 27 digital files

The Mental Health of Chinese Women in Britain, 1945-2000, was a project run by Professor Gill Green at the University of Essex, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Professor Green and her colleagues hypothesised that the low uptake of mental health services by Chinese women in Britain was due to issues such as long working hours, a gendered division of domestic labour, racist social exclusion, language barriers and migration stresses. The project also aimed to explore the use of alternative means of support, including traditional Chinese medicine and informal social support networks. The project ran from 1999-2000.

The research was published in 2002 and some of the data deposited with the UK Data Service: Eldridge, K., Green, G., Bradby, H., Lee, M. (2002). Mental Health of Chinese Women in Britain, 1945-2000. [data collection]. UK Data Service. SN: 4523, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4523-1.

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