Trauma-Associated Psychiatric Disorders Among South Sudanese Dinka and Nuer Women Resettled in the USA
This study was designed to contribute to the literature on the mental health of this group of resettled refugees. The sample consisted of 76 Dinka and Nuer women in Nebraska and Tennessee. On average, participants experienced 9.8 traumatic events during the war, ranging from one to seventeen. Approximately 40%, 29%, and 26% of the women scored above threshold for diagnosis of current anxiety, depression, and PTSD, respectively. Factors including advanced age, i.e.,>35 years old, (aOR = 4.76; 95% CI 1.29, 17.51), having elementary education or less (aOR = 6.21; 1.19, 32.27), and middle to secondary education (a...
Source: Global Social Welfare - May 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Prevalence and Correlates of Depression Among Pregnant Women Enrolled in a Maternal and Newborn Health Program in Rural Northern Ghana: a Cross-sectional Survey
This study describes the prevalence of depression among rural pregnant women, participating in a maternal and child health program, in Ghana, and examines associated risk factors for depression. Pregnant women who were registered for group-based maternal and child health community programs were recruited for study participation from 32 communities in two rural districts in Northern Ghana (n = 374). Baseline surveys were conducted and depression was assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). Bivariate and multivariable analyses used a modified Poisson and generalized estimating equations (GEE) model. Of th...
Source: Global Social Welfare - May 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Association Between the WASH and Clean Cooking Fuel Access and the Nutritional Well-Being of Adolescents in China
ConclusionWASH and clean fuel access has significant associations with the probability of being stunted and disproportionally affects adolescent girls. Improving access to single type of facilities is not sufficient to prevent stunting. Improved water, improved sanitation, improved waste management, and access to clean fuels and electricity interplayed with each other and collectively reduced the environmental risk factors and improved the well-being of people in the community. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - December 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Adverse Childhood Experiences and HIV Risk Behaviors in Young Adult Afghan Immigrants to Eastern Iran
ConclusionPrevention of ACEs and support for Afghan immigrants exposed to ACEs to develop resilience are essential to improving the HIV health of young adults in future generations. Cumulative ACEs and, separately, family dysfunction, are overlapping risk factors for HIV risk behaviors in young adult Afghan immigrants (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - November 26, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Involuntary Return and Coping Strategies Among Deportees in Nkoranza, Ghana
AbstractGenerally, the rise in deportation has implications for the resettlement of migrants in their countries of origin. In view of the increasing number of deportees in many developing countries, such as Ghana, this study sought to identify the reasons for deportation, and coping strategies adopted by deportees in the Nkoranza Municipality of Ghana. The study utilized a qualitative research approach and twenty participants were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling techniques. Data were collected through individual in-depth interviews and analyzed thematically. The findings indicated that participants returned...
Source: Global Social Welfare - November 15, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Global Efforts to Engage Men and Boys in Gender-Based Violence Prevention
AbstractEfforts to engage men and boys to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) have proliferated rapidly throughout much of the world. These efforts can be seen in marked expansion of community-based prevention programming, as well as in policy support for such involvement. Many of the most innovative, best developed programs and most rigorously evaluated have grown internationally outside of North America. In this special issue, we offer a compilation of some of the exciting work underway to conceptualize, create, implement, and evaluate these rapidly developing efforts around the world. Authors address the theoretical fou...
Source: Global Social Welfare - October 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Intensified Exploitation and Mental Stress as Impacts of Changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Alberta, Canada
AbstractMigrant precariousness is a growing global trend that calls for effective policies to attend to the rights and well-being of migrant workers in destination countries. The experience of migrant workers is highly structured by the policies and systems in destination countries. In Canada, policy changes have affected the experiences of migrants. We sought to examine the impact of changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in 2015 on migrants in Alberta, one of Canada ’s western provinces. Using a transnational theoretical perspective embedded within a critical social paradigm and a focus group method, we gather...
Source: Global Social Welfare - October 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Factors Influencing Home Births in the Krachi Nchumuru District in the Oti Region, Ghana: a Qualitative Study
ConclusionSeveral contextual factors encourage home births among women in the Krachi Nchumuru District, Ghana. There is, therefore, the need to increase health facilities and personnel to provide skilled delivery care and improve the transportation infrastructure in the district. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - October 15, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Introduction to the Issue on Equity, Collaboration, and Empowerment in Mental Health Research Partnerships
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Source: Global Social Welfare - August 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Correction to: Towards Household Asset Protection: Findings from an Inter-generational Asset Transfer Project in Rural Kenya
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in the image of Fig. 1. Boxes of some texts in the said figure are missing. The corrected version of Fig. 1 is shown below. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - August 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Parents ’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Factors Affecting Learning in Kenya
ConclusionThere is need for both teachers and parents to come together and discuss perceived factors that interfere with learning of the children. Those that form a consensus for both groups, means to address them be found for better academic success of the child. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - July 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Towards Household Asset Protection: Findings from an Inter-generational Asset Transfer Project in Rural Kenya
AbstractExcluded from economic institutions, social opportunities, and legal protections, poor communities are often unable to break generational cycles of poverty. In sub-Saharan Africa, communities facing socio-economic and political exclusions are particularly susceptible to asset loss and wealth misappropriation, especially after the death of a main income earner. To address these vulnerabilities, Urithi intervention provided households in rural Kenya with tools to protect household assets through succession/inheritance planning. Using lessons learned from financial literacy curricula in asset-based programs, the inter...
Source: Global Social Welfare - July 22, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Mixed Methods Evaluation of Formal Mentoring: Journey UP for Aging out of Foster Care
AbstractThere are 415,000 children in foster care in the USA. Many of those children will turn 18 before being adopted, meaning they will “age-out” and essentially be on their own as adults. We wanted to see if formal mentoring programs improved outcomes for those aging out of foster care and the Journey Up Mentorship Program in Salt Lake City offered such a program. Forty-nine youth who had aged out of foster care with the help o f mentors were surveyed and found they scored significantly higher in their ability to get jobs and were less at risk for addiction, homelessness, and incarceration compared to data from the ...
Source: Global Social Welfare - June 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Barriers and Facilitators to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries: a Scoping Review
ConclusionThere is an urgent need to encourage research in the field of CAMH service development in LAMICs to facilitate policy development, implementation and scale-up of CAMH services. (Source: Global Social Welfare)
Source: Global Social Welfare - June 6, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Generational Perceptions of Support Among Congolese Refugees in Urban Tanzania
AbstractUrban refugees frequently fall outside of the scope of humanitarian assistance programs. Despite a growing body of research describing the experiences of urban refugees in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of first asylum, little is known about generational differences in perceived support in these contexts. This phenomenological study used in-depth, semi-structured interviews and small group discussions to identify sources and meanings of support among older adult (50+;n = 23) and younger adult (18–30;n = 11) Congolese refugees in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Family and fictive kin emerged as centra...
Source: Global Social Welfare - May 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
