Cowboy poetry: finding and using safe venues for emotional expression
Rural Remote Health. 2023 Aug;23(3):8348. doi: 10.22605/RRH8348. Epub 2023 Aug 30.ABSTRACTMental health problems still carry heavy stigma in rural communities. Sometimes a person suffering a mental, emotional, or behavioral health issue won't seek care for fear of others knowing about their personal issues. Historically, some rural communities created safe venues for emotional expression. One example is cowboy poetry, which allowed the cowboy poet to express sadness, disappointment and heartache in a safe environment. There is an opportunity for rural communities to imagine and reimagine safe venues for mental, emotional, ...
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 30, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: John M Westfall Linda Zittleman Source Type: research
Sexual minorities are not a homogeneous population: health disparity differences based on residence in rural versus urban settings
CONCLUSION: Rural-dwelling bisexual women experience elevated likelihood for physical health conditions compared to urban-dwelling bisexual women, but few other rural populations experience elevated risk. Urban gay men, meanwhile, are more likely to possess insurance but simultaneously experience worse health outcomes across several domains of diseases, suggesting lower utilization of healthcare services. Future research should strive to avoid pooling all SMs into a single risk group as we have clearly demonstrated that strong differences exist based on both sex and rural/urban status.PMID:37643608 | DOI:10.22605/RRH8052 (...
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 29, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: Ethan Morgan Kathryn Lancaster Yootapichai Phosri Janelle Ricks Christina Dyar Source Type: research
Perceptions of quality of life by female sex workers from the rural area of the Sert ão Produtivo Baiano, Brazil: a phenomenological study
CONCLUSION: The fact that these female sex workers come from a poor region of Brazil and live in a rural area far from urban centers leads to unique difficulties for them. They suffer from marginalization and restricted social services as a result of their circumstances, and highly value the freedom to face the difficulties of day-to-day life that their income from sex work provides. Good quality of life for these women is achieved by striving for physical health, food, and well-being (goals made attainable by that income), but can be hindered by violence.PMID:37634626 | DOI:10.22605/RRH6808 (Source: Rural and Remote Health)
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 27, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: Pablo Luiz Santos Couto Carle Porcino Samantha Souza da Costa Pereira Tarc ício da Silva Flores Alba Benem érita Alves Vilela Ant ônio Mt Gomes Cleuma Sueli Santos Suto Dejeane de Oliveira Silva Luiz Carlos Moraes Fran ça Source Type: research
PACES: a primary care tool to detect mental health disorders in Indigenous Colombians
CONCLUSION: There are few intercultural and early detection studies of parenting and mental health problems in children and youth that have an ethnic approach. It is observed that the instrument serves as a means of monitoring mental health issues in children and adolescents, as well as the parenting practices employed in their socialization, from both the perspective of caregivers and the young individuals themselve. This study indicates that the scale is an adequate tool, quick and easy to administer in first-level care settings.PMID:37633312 | DOI:10.22605/RRH7851 (Source: Rural and Remote Health)
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 26, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: Felipe Agudelo-Hern ández Rodrigo Rojas Andrade Helena V élez Botero Source Type: research
Aspire2Health and COVID-19: the impact of the pandemic on outcomes from an outreach program to increase high school student interest in rural health careers
CONCLUSION: This study found that the Aspire2Heath program continued to motivate rural students to pursue health careers during the COVID-19 pandemic and that student interest is greatest during activities with hands-on clinical skills and student-professional interactions. These results suggests that rural health career outreach programs can be run under challenging social circumstances with confidence that students can be successfully encouraged to pursue health careers. Furthermore, program design should emphasise hands-on clinical skills and interactions with professions. These findings have practical implications for ...
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 26, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: William MacAskill Anthony Bruce Fallon Nicola Cotter Paul Purea Source Type: research
Understanding the factors contributing to farmer suicide: a meta-synthesis of qualitative research
CONCLUSION: This is the first study to synthesize qualitative data about farmer suicide. While the enduring challenges and stressors of farming in rural areas may never be eliminated, there may be ways to help farmers build resilience to these factors. Our FARM framework presents a new way of understanding farm culture, the occupational stressors and farmers' wellbeing while also providing direction for future research and guidance for practical interventions. Policymakers and healthcare providers should consider developing and delivering mental health literacy programs to farmers and those who work closely with them to id...
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 26, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: Rebecca Purc-Stephenson Jenessa Doctor Jude Elliot Keehn Source Type: research
Creating a sustainable rural general surgery workforce: what enables fellows to return as rural general surgeons?
CONCLUSION: Ensuring a sustainable general surgical workforce in a rural community requires employee and surgical leadership to ensure a collaborative and progressive culture, which offers work diversity, supports the family lifestyle and petitions for selecting those who embody the rural general surgeon identity. Post-fellowship positions can enable young general surgeons to have exposure to the realities of a rural lifestyle, which is likely to have a positive effect on recruitment. Due to the return investment of the fellowship program, we propose that the federal government should look at funding post-fellowship positi...
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 25, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: Jessica A Paynter Kirby R Qin Christine Cuthbertson Janelle Brennan Source Type: research
Building the capacity of rural allied health generalists through online postgraduate education: a qualitative evaluation
CONCLUSION: Allied health professionals working in rural and remote locations valued the RGP because it provided accessible postgraduate education that aligned with their professional and clinical needs. Integrated into a supportive, well-structured development pathway, the experience potentiated learning and facilitated safe clinical practice that met the needs of consumers and organisations. The findings demonstrate that effective work-integrated learning strategies can enhance the development of essential capabilities for rural practice and support early-career allied health professionals' transition to rural and remote...
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 25, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: Helena Harrison Claire Palermo Susan G Devine Jennifer Chamberlain-Salaun Robyn Nash Ruth N Barker Source Type: research
Creating a sustainable rural general surgery workforce: what enables fellows to return as rural general surgeons?
CONCLUSION: Ensuring a sustainable general surgical workforce in a rural community requires employee and surgical leadership to ensure a collaborative and progressive culture, which offers work diversity, supports the family lifestyle and petitions for selecting those who embody the rural general surgeon identity. Post-fellowship positions can enable young general surgeons to have exposure to the realities of a rural lifestyle, which is likely to have a positive effect on recruitment. Due to the return investment of the fellowship program, we propose that the federal government should look at funding post-fellowship positi...
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 25, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: Jessica A Paynter Kirby R Qin Christine Cuthbertson Janelle Brennan Source Type: research
Building the capacity of rural allied health generalists through online postgraduate education: a qualitative evaluation
CONCLUSION: Allied health professionals working in rural and remote locations valued the RGP because it provided accessible postgraduate education that aligned with their professional and clinical needs. Integrated into a supportive, well-structured development pathway, the experience potentiated learning and facilitated safe clinical practice that met the needs of consumers and organisations. The findings demonstrate that effective work-integrated learning strategies can enhance the development of essential capabilities for rural practice and support early-career allied health professionals' transition to rural and remote...
Source: Rural and Remote Health - August 25, 2023 Category: Rural Health Authors: Helena Harrison Claire Palermo Susan G Devine Jennifer Chamberlain-Salaun Robyn Nash Ruth N Barker Source Type: research
