Browsing by Subject "Latina"

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    4. Getting A Grip On My Depression: A Grounded Theory Explaining How Latina Adolescents Experience, Self-Manage, And Seek Treatment For Depressive Symptoms
    (Journal of Adolescent Health, 2019) McCord Stafford, Allison; Aalsma, Matthew C.; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Oruche, Ukamaka M.; Burke Draucker, Claire
    Latina adolescents are more likely to experience depressive symptoms and less likely to receive mental health services than White peers. Although evidence-based treatments exist to treat adolescent depression, few treatments have been modified to meet the cultural needs of this population. In order to develop culturally sensitive strategies for preventing, identifying, and treating depressive symptoms in Latina adolescents, it is necessary to understand how they experience, self-manage, and seek treatment for their depressive symptoms over time from their own perspective. The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretical framework that explains how Latina adolescents experience, self-manage, and seek treatment for their depressive symptoms.
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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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    Ethical considerations for involving Latina adolescents in mental health research
    (Wiley, 2017-02) McCord, Allison L.; School of Nursing
    TOPIC: US Latina adolescents experience significant mental health disparities, such as depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation and, therefore, should be involved in research studies focused on minimizing these health disparities. However, researchers must consider the specific ways this population is vulnerable and provide adequate protections to reduce risks related to these vulnerabilities. PURPOSE: The purpose of this article is to describe the different ways that Latina adolescents with mental health problems can be vulnerable research participants, identify strategies to protect this population during a research study, and describe steps taken to apply these strategies in an ongoing qualitative study examining depression in Latina adolescents. SOURCES USED: Kipnis's (2003) article describes seven ways that children can be vulnerable research participants. These seven vulnerabilities are used to describe the vulnerabilities of Latina adolescents with mental health problems. Specific strategies to protect this population are synthesized to provide a list of strategies that can be used by researchers to reduce the risks associated with the vulnerabilities of this group. CONCLUSIONS: In order to minimize risks for Latina adolescents, researchers must be engaged in Latino/a communities, use culturally and linguistically
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    A novel qualitative approach for identifying effective communication for recruitment of minority women to a breast cancer prevention study
    (Elsevier, 2022-03-18) Ridley-Merriweather, Katherine E.; Head, Katharine J.; Younker, Stephanie M.; Evans, Madeline D.; Moore, Courtney M.; Lindsey, Deidre S.; Wu, Cynthia Y.; Wiehe, Sarah E.; Communication Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    Ensuring that racial and ethnic minority women are involved in breast cancer research is important to address well-documented current disparities in cancer incidence, stages of diagnosis, and mortality rates. This study used a novel interactive focus group method to identify innovative communication strategies for recruiting women from two minority groups—Latinas and Asian Americans—into the Komen Tissue Bank, a specific breast cancer biobank clinical trial. Through activities that employed visual interactive tools to facilitate group discussion and self-reflection, the authors examined perspectives and motivations for Asian American women (N = 17) and Latinas (N = 14) toward donating their healthy breast tissue. Findings included three themes that, while common to both groups, were unique in how they were expressed: lack of knowledge concerning breast cancer risks and participation in clinical research, cultural influences in BC risk thinking, and how altruism relates to perceived personal connection to breast cancer. More significantly, this study illuminated the importance of using innovative methods to encourage deeper, more enlightened participation among underrepresented populations that may not arise in a traditional focus group format. The findings from this study will inform future health communication efforts to recruit women from these groups into clinical research projects like the Komen Tissue Bank.
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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.