Browsing by Subject "mental health"
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A Comparative Sociological Investigation of the Conceptions and Perceptions of Mental Health and Illness in Arica, Chile and Rome, Italy
(2013-05-08)This comparative study aimed to discover the principal factors that influence the perceptions of citizens in Arica, Chile and Rome, Italy toward mental illness. Specifically, the study aimed to investigate how these perceptions ... -
A Friend in Need: The Influence of Friendship on the Psychosocial Adjustment of Youth with Chronic Health Conditions
(2015)Friendship has consistently been found to act as a buffer against psychological maladjustment for healthy youth and youth experiencing difficulties including parental divorce and natural disasters. Less known is the role ... -
Behavioral Health Service Utilization and Cost for North Carolina’s Foster Children: A Report for Partnering For Excellence
(2014-04-18)Executive Summary Introduction The foster care population in North Carolina, which hovered around 8,882 children as of August 2013, is of special interest to policymakers, politicians, Medicaid officials, child welfare ... -
Digital Medicine System in Veterans With Severe Mental Illness: Feasibility and Acceptability Study.
(JMIR formative research, 2022-12)<h4>Background</h4>Suboptimal medication adherence is a significant problem for patients with serious mental illness. Measuring medication adherence through subjective and objective measures can be challenging, time-consuming, ... -
Exploring the Link Between Mental Health of Caregivers and the Orphaned and Abandoned Children They Care for: An Investigation in Delhi, India
(2020-04)Alternative care models for orphaned and abandoned children (OACs) have recently become a priority, especially in nations like India, with high populations of OACs. Despite the shift from institutional care towards a family-based ... -
Factors Impacting Sustainable Implementation of Adolescent Mental Health Interventions: A Qualitative Stakeholder Analysis
(2021)Background: Mental health challenges comprise a significant share of the global disease burden among adolescents. In many global settings, mental health services are limited and few adolescent mental health interventions ... -
Flying Blind? Implementing a Trauma-Informed Care Approach in the Treatment of Trafficking Survivors
(2018-12-05)Millions of people are exploited for labor or sex throughout the world. Governments and non-profit organizations have increasingly explored how to best help trafficking survivors overcome their adversity through services ... -
Gender Transgressed: Felt Pressure, Gender Typicality, and Mental Health in Transgender vs. Cisgender Adults
(2023-04-25)Gender stereotypes are pervasive parts of our culture, and they can change the way we feel about ourselves. Previous studies in cisgender children suggest that boys and girls experience different levels of (1) felt pressure ... -
How Is the Caregiver Doing? Capturing Caregivers' Experiences With a Reflective Toolkit.
(JMIR mental health, 2019-05-28)BACKGROUND:This paper describes the Co-Care-KIT, a reflective toolkit designed to provide insights into the diverse experiences of home-based informal caregivers during the delivery of care to a relative or loved ... -
Improving mental health among people living with HIV: a review of intervention trials in low- and middle-income countries.
(Glob Ment Health (Camb), 2015-01)People living with HIV (PLWH) experience greater psychological distress than the general population. Evidence from high-incomes countries suggests that psychological interventions for PLWH can improve mental health symptoms, ... -
Providing Mental Health Access to Unauthorized Children and Citizen-Children of Unauthorized Parents in Durham Area Schools
(2021-05-14)World Relief Durham (WRD) is in the process of creating an intervention program that would support the effort to provide mental health access to unauthorized Hispanic children/youth, and citizen-children of unauthorized ... -
Reducing mental health-related stigma among medical and nursing students in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.
(Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 2019-04)AimsThis systematic review compiled evidence on interventions to reduce mental health-related stigma among medical and nursing students in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Primary outcomes were stigmatising attitudes ... -
Resilience in Tanzanian Youth Living with HIV: A Longitudinal Exploration of Protective Factors and Challenges
(2021)Background: Adolescence is a critical risk period for the onset of mental health difficulties. Youth living with HIV (YLWH) face additional challenges navigating peer and romantic relationships due to stigma and disclosure, ... -
Self-Disclosure of HIV Status, Social Support, and Mental Health among HIV-positive Young Black Men who have Sex with Men (YBMSM)
(2017)Background: Young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM) are a particularly vulnerable group for HIV infection. HIV-positive YBMSM often suffer from mental health challenges as a result of discrimination based on their ... -
Self-Presentational Congruence and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Test of Three Models
(2017)People regularly monitor and control the impressions others form of them but differ in the degree to which they both convey impressions that are consistent with their private self-views (self-presentational congruence) and ... -
The Association Between Psychological Resilience and Physical Function Among Older Adults With Hip Fracture Surgery.
(Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2020-02)<h4>Objectives</h4>To examine the associations of prefracture psychological resilience and prefracture general mental health with physical function among older adults with hip fracture surgery.<h4>Design</h4>Single-center ... -
The Company You Keep: The Relationship between Friendship Qualities and Mental Health among Undergraduates
(2019-04)Prior research has shown that stress and mental illnesses increase during college years. Strong social support may contribute to better mental health while weak social support may exacerbate mental illnesses. Because college ... -
The Effects of Everyday Discrimination on the Mental Health of Muslim Students at Duke University
(2019-04-10)This thesis seeks to elucidate the relationship between experiences of discrimination and mental health state among the Muslim population at Duke. In the first chapter, I argue that although the negative relationship between ... -
The Loneliness Epidemic: The Call of Christian Communities to Create Meaningful Connection and Transform Loneliness into Belonging
(2023)Loneliness is a common and near-universal experience that causes us to feel isolated and disconnected from others. More and more Americans experience it most or all the time. With at least 30% of the US population experiencing ... -
The Warrior Wellness Study: A Randomized Controlled Exercise Trial for Older Veterans with PTSD.
(Translational journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, 2018-03)Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects up to 30% of military veterans. Older veterans, many of whom have lived with PTSD symptoms for several decades, report a number of negative health outcomes. Despite the demonstrated ...
