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UnknownDeterminants of mental health and self-rated health: a model of socioeconomic status, neighborhood safety, and physical activity.

Objectives

We investigated the underlying mechanisms of the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on mental health and self-rated health (SRH), and evaluated how these relationships might vary by race/ethnicity, age, and gender.

Methods

We analyzed data of 44 921 adults who responde...
S-EPMC4151927 | biostudies-literature
UnknownSociopsychological tailoring to address colorectal cancer screening disparities: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose

Interventions tailored to sociopsychological factors associated with health behaviors have promise for reducing colorectal cancer screening disparities, but limited research has assessed their impact in multiethnic populations. We examined whether an interactive multimedia computer p...
S-EPMC4018368 | biostudies-literature
UnknownA cross-national study on prevalence of mental disorders, service use, and adequacy of treatment among Mexican and Mexican American populations.

Objectives

We examined differences in the use of mental health services, conditional on the presence of psychiatric disorders, across groups of Mexico's population with different US migration exposure and in successive generations of Mexican Americans in the United States.

Methods

We ...
S-EPMC3780667 | biostudies-literature
UnknownEffects of tailored knowledge enhancement on colorectal cancer screening preference across ethnic and language groups.

Objective

Tailoring to psychological constructs (e.g. self-efficacy, readiness) motivates behavior change, but whether knowledge tailoring alone changes healthcare preferences--a precursor of behavior change in some studies--is unknown. We examined this issue in secondary analyses from a ran...
S-EPMC3522756 | biostudies-literature
UnknownPosttraumatic stress disorder associated with unexpected death of a loved one: Cross-national findings from the world mental health surveys.

Background

Unexpected death of a loved one (UD) is the most commonly reported traumatic experience in cross-national surveys. However, much remains to be learned about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after this experience. The WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative provides a u...
S-EPMC5661943 | biostudies-literature
UnknownProceedings of the 2017 Advancing the Science of Community Engaged Research (CEnR) Conference.
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S-EPMC6474049 | biostudies-literature
UnknownThe association between childhood adversities and subsequent first onset of psychotic experiences: a cross-national analysis of 23 998 respondents from 17 countries.

Background

Although there is robust evidence linking childhood adversities (CAs) and an increased risk for psychotic experiences (PEs), little is known about whether these associations vary across the life-course and whether mental disorders that emerge prior to PEs explain these association...
S-EPMC5590103 | biostudies-literature
UnknownTwelve-month mental health service use in six countries of the Americas: A regional report from the World Mental Health Surveys.

Aims

To provide cross-national data for selected countries of the Americas on service utilization for psychiatric and substance use disorders, the distribution of these services among treatment sectors, treatment adequacy and factors associated with mental health treatment and adequacy of tr...
S-EPMC8061239 | biostudies-literature
UnknownThe prevalence and correlates of binge eating disorder in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

Background

Little population-based data exist outside the United States on the epidemiology of binge eating disorder (BED). Cross-national BED data are presented here and compared with bulimia nervosa (BN) data in the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health Surveys.

Methods

S-EPMC3628997 | biostudies-literature
UnknownAssociations between neighborhood-level violence and individual mental disorders: Results from the World Mental Health surveys in five Latin American cities.
Rapidly urbanizing areas of Latin America experience elevated but unevenly distributed levels of violence. Extensive research suggests that individual exposure to violence is associated with higher odds of both internalizing (anxiety and mood) and externalizing (substance and intermittent explosive)...
S-EPMC6946059 | biostudies-literature
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