Browsing by Author "Stafford, Allison McCord"

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    Cultural Stressors Described by Latina Young Women Living in a Tumultuous Sociopolitical Climate
    (2018) Stafford, Allison McCord; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Draucker, Claire
    To describe the types of cultural stressors that Latina young women living in the US experienced from 2016- 2018 with respect to generational status.
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    Emerging Adult Women’s Views-of-Self in Intimate Partner Relationships that are Troubled
    (Informa Healthcare, 2019-04) Stafford, Allison McCord; Burke Draucker, Claire; School of Nursing
    The purpose of this study is to describe how emerging adult (EA) women describe their views-of-self in troubled relationships. Fourteen EA women (ages 18–25) wrote four stories about their troubled relationships during a guided-writing intervention. Qualitative descriptive methods and content analysis were used to identify common views-of-self. Four views-of-self in troubled relationships and contrasting views-of-self emerged: (1) silent self-vocal self, (2) sacrificing self-prioritized self, (3) caretaking self-boundary-setting self, and (4) insecure self-secure self. Mental health nurses and other clinicians can use these views-of-self pairs to guide their discussions with EA young women who are involved in troubled relationships.
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    The unfolding depressive symptoms, disease self-management, and treatment utilization for Latina adolescents
    (2018-06-18) Stafford, Allison McCord; Draucker, Claire Burke; Aalsma, Matthew C.; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Oruche, Ukamaka
    Latina adolescents are more likely to suffer from depressive symptoms and less likely to receive mental health services for depression than their White peers, and this mental health disparity is poorly understood. The purpose of this dissertation study is to describe how Latina adolescents experience and seek mental health services for their depressive symptoms. The dissertation includes three components. The first is an integrative literature review to determine which cultural stressors are associated with depressive symptoms among Latino/a youth. The results indicate that discrimination, family culture conflict, acculturative and bicultural stress, intragroup rejection, immigration stress, and context of reception are associated with depressive symptoms in this population. The second and third components were based on interviews with 25 Latinas (ages 13-20) who experienced depressive symptoms during adolescence. In the second component, a content analysis was conducted to determine cultural stressors experienced by contemporary Latinas living in a tumultuous sociopolitical climate in the United States. The stressors included (a) pressure to succeed, (b) parental oversight, (c) being treated differently, and (d) fears of deportation. In the third component, grounded theory methods were used to develop a theoretical framework to describe the process by which Latina adolescents self-managed and sought treatment for depressive symptoms. In this framework, participants shared a psychosocial problem labeled Being Overburdened and Becoming Depressed. They responded to this problem through the psychosocial process labeled Getting a Grip on My Depression, which consisted of five phases: 1) hiding my depression, 2) keeping my depression under control, 3) having my depression revealed, 4) skirting treatment for my depression, and 5) deciding to move on from depression. The Latino family, peer groups, and mainstream authorities influenced the participants’ experiences. The process of experiencing, self-managing, and seeking treatment for depressive symptoms for Latina adolescents is both similar to and unique from the processes by which other groups of adolescents experience depressive symptoms. These results will contribute to the development of culturally-sensitive strategies to prevent, identify, and treat depressive symptoms in Latina adolescents.