The increasing population of working immigrant women in Canada demands special considerations surrounding their mental health. This exploratory-descriptive qualitative research has investigated the influences on the mental well-being of 14 working immigrant women in Calgary. Par…
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Contact tracing has become both a buzzword and a priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. Though it was deployed nationwide in the U.S., its success varied regionally. This special project thesis, in the form of a longform journalism article, traces the public health practice back…
“Every Man is Now in the Market” is a study of informal institutional change in medieval Liguria during the second half of the thirteenth century. Informal institutions are social rules that are enforced by commonly held values and norms, rather than by any law. The goal of this…
Existing literature on mental health utilization with Division I college athletes is very limited. Specifically, little research has been conducted regarding what may make an athlete more or less likely to seek mental health services. This qualitative study investigated 1.) The …
This study's purpose was to learn about the experiences of professionals from American nonprofit organizations working in Kenya, incorporating recovery-oriented services for children with physical disabilities. Human service professionals associated with international nonprofit …
Approximately 3% of 15 to 49-year-olds in Rwanda live with HIV, many of whom are young adults. They face multiple stressors including stigma, anxiety, depression, trauma, orphanhood, and poverty. Little is known about the types of coping that facilitate resilience. Cognitive beh…
In the field of psychology, while there is growing research on the development of attitudes, stigma and perceptions towards help-seeking and utilizing mental healthcare in various countries and cultures around the world, not much has been written about such issues in The Islands…
Research lacks answers for reasons why African American men neglect their mental health. The small amount of research that does provide some answers for Black men is in comparison to White Americans and other minorities. The purpose of this study is to pinpoint the specific reas…
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how formerly incarcerated community college students experience stigma related to the self-disclosure of their incarceration history in the campus community. In this study, I sought to understand how formerly incarcerated stud…
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how community healthcare stakeholders living in the Midwest region described how they think religion and environment might influence eating disorder risk factors in Jewish orthodox adolescent females. The two resea…
Background: Perinatal depression (PND) disproportionally affects low-income, ethnic minority women (Fisher et al., 2016; Goyal, Gay, & Lee, 2010). Although there are effective treatments for PND (Werner et al., 2015), rates of professional help seeking are low among this vulnera…
An expanse of research has demonstrated that persons with mental illness (PWMI) tend to avoid formal psychological treatment.One possible explanation for this failure to pursue formal treatment is the tendency of religious individuals to construe mental illness as spiritual in n…
This thesis is an exploration of infertility and assisted conception in contemporary India. It explores some of the prominent themes underpinning the cultural engagement with reproductive disruption and seeks to understand how people - inflicted infertile individuals and treatme…
The unifying theme of the chapters presented in this thesis is how people who are not in paid work respond to the stigma of unemployment or the possibility of being regarded as (similar to the) unemployed. Although unemployment is a topic of continuing interdisciplinary interest…
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Even before 9/11, there has been a long history of attitudes and public policies that were biased against people of Middle East descent in the United States--regardless of whether or not they are Muslim. This research uses Status Characteristics Theory (SCT) and stigma theory to…
This comparative research explores the work experiences of dementia care workers in nursing homes. The aim of this study is to understand concepts central to care and to gain insights from the care workers‟ perspectives. A comparative framework and symbolic interactionist approa…
Background: Asthma morbidity in women is increasing. Women report greater severity of asthma symptoms and their utilisation of acute health services is high. Asthma prevalence is high in the Middle East region. In Gulf countries, and Oman in particular, there is a dearth of data…
People with diagnoses of mental illness have been described as the last minority group against whom it is socially acceptable to discriminate. Challenging the stigma of mental illness is a major social issue and public health concern. Despite a range of anti-stigma efforts being…