Browsing by Subject "Mental Health"
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Associations of Adverse Childhood Experiences With Key Health Outcomes and Viral Suppression Maintenance Among Tanzanian Youth Living With HIV
(2022)Background: Despite improved access to HIV testing and medication, AIDS remains a leading cause of death among youth living with HIV (YLWH) in Tanzania. YLWH are prone to worse HIV outcomes than other age groups, which may ... -
Childhood Adversities and Adult Mental Health: Conceptualizing and Measuring Heterogeneity in Adversity Experience
(2022)The life course perspective has long theorized that childhood is a sensitive period for mental, physical, and emotional development, meaning that negative experiences during childhood can have long-lasting impacts on health ... -
Comprehensive Support for Family Caregivers of Post-9/11 Veterans Increases Veteran Utilization of Long-term Services and Supports: A Propensity Score Analysis.
(Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing, 2018-01)Family caregivers are an important component of the long-term services and supports (LTSS) system. However, caregiving may have negative consequences for caregiver physical and emotional health. Connecting caregivers to ... -
Correlates of Preincarceration Health Care Use Among Women and Men in Jail.
(Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, 2015-07)Although women and men in jails bear a burden of health problems, little is known about factors associated with their health care use. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of preincarceration health care use with 596 jail ... -
Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Task-Shifting in Two Post-Earthquake Humanitarian Crisis Sites: Haiti and Nepal
(2016-05-07)This thesis is an in-depth analysis into the efficacy of task-shifting models in post-earthquake settings. Using Haiti and Nepal as case-studies, the paper investigates the necessary infrastructure and policy strategies ... -
Defying the odds on gun regulation: The passage of bipartisan mental health laws across the states.
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Demographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Life Expectancy With Hearing Impairment in the United States.
(The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2021-04)<h4>Objectives</h4>Hearing impairment is one of the most common disabilities among older people, and its prevalence will increase as the U.S. population ages. However, little is known about social disparities in onset or ... -
Depression Symptoms Are Associated with Poor Functional Status Among Operative Spinal Deformity Patients.
(Spine, 2021-04)<h4>Study design</h4>Retrospective review of prospective multicenter database.<h4>Objective</h4>The aim of this study was to investigate how preoperative mental status affects preoperative and postoperative disability and ... -
Designing a Voice-Based Treatment Module for Treating Perinatal Depression in Rural Kenya
(2014-12-12)Depression is the largest contributor to the worldwide disease burden of mental, neurological and substance use disorders. Addressing perinatal depression is a particular challenge in low- and middle-income countries where ... -
Discrimination in Workplace, Health Care, Family Settings and Mental Health among Transgender People in Sri Lanka
(2023)Despite numerous studies demonstrating high rates of discrimination and poor mental health among transgender people in Western countries, little research has been conducted on this population in Sri Lanka. As such, the primary ... -
Evaluating the Long-Term Outcomes of a Mental Health Intervention in Tanzanian Youth Living with HIV
(2020)Six percent of the world’s population of youth living with HIV (YLWH) reside in Tanzania. Despite scale up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), poor ART adherence contributes to AIDS related morbidity and mortality in YLWH. ... -
Examining the Psychosocial Context of Mental Health: Bhutanese Refugees and Their Story of Resettlement.
(2012)Over 100,000 Bhutanese refugees are in the process of being resettled from southeastern Nepal to eight different Western countries--the majority of whom are resettling to the United States. Refugees are universally at higher ... -
Exploring Mental Health Profiles and Drinking Patterns of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients in Tanzania
(2019)Background: Globally, traumatic brain injury (TBI) accounts for the highest burden of deaths and disabilities globally. Studies suggest a complex relationship between injury, mental health, and alcohol. Though hazardous ... -
Global Mental Health: Five Areas for Value-Driven Training Innovation.
(Acad Psychiatry, 2016-08)OBJECTIVE: In the field of global mental health, there is a need for identifying core values and competencies to guide training programs in professional practice as well as in academia. This paper presents the results of ... -
Group-based Trajectory Modeling: A Novel Approach to Classifying Discriminative Functional Status Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Study of a 3-year Follow-up Group.
(Spine, 2020-07)<h4>Study design</h4>Retrospective review of prospectively collected database.<h4>Objective</h4>To delineate and visualize trajectories of the functional status in surgically-treated adult spinal deformity (ASD) ... -
Hallucinogen-related disorders in a national sample of adolescents: the influence of ecstasy/MDMA use.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2009-09)To present the prevalence and correlates of hallucinogen use disorders (HUDs: abuse or dependence) and subthreshold dependence.The study sample included adolescents aged 12-17 years (N=55,286) who participated in the National ... -
How Social Status Permeates Inequalities in Health: Three Studies on Experiences of Social Disadvantage
(2020)The social gradient of health is pervasive and unrelenting. Across nearly any layer of society – race, religion, economic standing, or others – the populations worst off in terms health are also the most socially disadvantaged. ... -
Impact of poor mental health in adult spinal deformity patients with poor physical function: a retrospective analysis with a 2-year follow-up.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2017-01)OBJECTIVE Mental disease burden can have a significant impact on levels of disability and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures. Therefore, the authors investigated the significance of mental health status in adults ... -
Implicit and Explicit Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Mental Illness: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial of Service User Videos to Reduce Stigma in Nepal
(2018)Background: Many health providers worldwide stigmatize people living with mental illness, creating a barrier to providing quality mental health services. Interventions aiming to reduce stigma during medical school have utilized ... -
Inequality within Congregations and Congregations’ Response to Inequality: Studies of Gender and Mental Health, Race and Mental Health, and Participation in the Sanctuary Movement
(2021)This dissertation aims to address the ways that American religious congregations and religious leaders respond to and are formed within the context of a society marked by inequality. Specifically, I study: (1) the ways that ...
