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J Dual Diagn ; 19(1): 3-15, 2023.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36583682

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OBJECTIVE: The associations between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity, alcohol use, and alcohol use motives are well-established. Emotion regulation difficulties have been implicated in the association between PTSD symptoms and alcohol use. A dearth of empirical work, however, has examined these associations among Black/African American college students, a population with high prevalence of exposure to potentially traumatic events, PTSD symptomatology, and alcohol-related consequences. METHODS: This study examined PTSD symptoms, emotion regulation difficulties, and alcohol use severity and motives among a sample of Black/African American trauma-exposed college students (N = 282; 77.4% identified as female; M age = 22.36, SD = 4.71). RESULTS: PTSD symptom severity was related to alcohol use and coping and conformity motives for alcohol use through heightened emotion regulation difficulties. Findings were significant above and beyond the effects of trauma load (i.e., number of potentially traumatic event types experienced). CONCLUSIONS: This study extends past work to an understudied population and contributes to groundwork for culturally informed interventions.


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Regulación Emocional , Trastornos por Estrés Postraumático , Humanos , Femenino , Adulto Joven , Adulto , Trastornos por Estrés Postraumático/psicología , Negro o Afroamericano , Consumo de Bebidas Alcohólicas/epidemiología , Consumo de Bebidas Alcohólicas/psicología , Estudiantes/psicología
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Sex Abuse ; : 10790632231219238, 2023 Nov 30.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38032094

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The few existing typology studies on women who have sexually offended (WWSO) have largely been limited by small sample sizes, have not included scale scores from risk assessments, or used recidivism within their typology (instead of using typologies to predict recidivism). In our sample of 241 WWSO, we conducted a latent profile analysis and observed four, distinct profiles: "low-risk WWSO," characterized by fewer criminal history incidents and lower risk-assessment scores; "problem-endorsing WWSO," with higher probability of endorsing various life problems such as educational/employment and emotional/personal issues; "antisocial WWSO" with more criminal history incidents, alcohol/drug problems, and higher scores on psychopathy; and "combined WWSO" with characteristics of both the problem-endorsing and antisocial profiles. This last profile showed elevations in general and/or violent recidivism risk, but relatively low recidivism. There were no cases of sexual recidivism in our sample following an average 30-month follow-up period. Membership in the antisocial profile predicted general and/or violent recidivism and suggests that WWSO typologies may be useful in predicting non-sexual recidivism for this population.

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Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol ; 27(3): 511-520, 2021 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32538636

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OBJECTIVES: Perceived racial discrimination is associated with depressive symptoms for African American adults; however, insight to protective factors for racism and depression in African Americans is limited. While current research suggests that dispositional forgiveness is an important factor in how people perceive and cope with interpersonal transgressions, few studies have examined its role in the context of racial discrimination. The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of forgiveness (beyond broader internalized religiosity) on the association between perceived racial discrimination and depressive symptoms in African American adults. METHOD: Sample included 101 African American adults (60.2% female; Mage = 21.90 years, SD = 4.93 years) who endorsed experiences of racial discrimination. Participants completed a questionnaire battery consisting of self-report measures of perceived experiences of racial discrimination, depression, dispositional forgiveness, and intrinsic religiosity. RESULTS: Regression analyses showed dispositional forgiveness moderated the association between perceived racial discrimination and symptoms of depression above and beyond intrinsic religiosity (ß = -.05, 95% CI [-.10, -.05], p < .05), such that the racial discrimination-depression association was significant for participants who reported low levels of dispositional forgiveness, but not for individuals who reported higher levels of dispositional forgiveness. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide insight into the role of dispositional forgiveness in experiences of racial discrimination and suggest that cognitive flexibility serves as an adaptive coping strategy to experiencing discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).


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Perdón , Racismo , Adaptación Psicológica , Adulto , Negro o Afroamericano , Depresión , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Adulto Joven
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Compr Psychiatry ; 91: 22-28, 2019 05.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30992121

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OBJECTIVE: Sleep-related problems (SRPs) are associated with increased risk for suicide-related behavior and death. Given that Black adults report greater SRPs as compared to White adults, the purpose of the current study was to examine sleep problems, suicide-related psychiatric admission, and suicide ideation, in Black and White trauma-exposed adults. METHOD: Suicide-related behavior (i.e., intent, plan, and/or behavior) as reason for hospital admission was obtained via medical records review for 172 Black and White adults who were admitted to an acute-care psychiatric facility; all participants completed validated measures of sleep quality and suicide ideation. RESULTS: Adjusted logistic regression analyses revealed that sleep-related daytime dysfunction (AOR = 4.32, p < .05) and poor sleep quality (AOR = 3.64, p < .05) were associated with significantly increased odds that Black participants were admitted for suicide-related psychiatric care. Poorer sleep quality (AOR = 2.10, p < .05) was also associated with increased odds of suicide-related admission among White participants. However, shorter sleep duration was marginally associated with suicide ideation in Black participants only. CONCLUSIONS: SRPs may be related to suicide-related behavior and ideation differently for vulnerable Black and White adults. More research is needed to understand potential race group differences and mechanisms by which SRPs increase risk for suicide crisis across racial groups.


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Negro o Afroamericano/psicología , Pacientes Internos/psicología , Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia/etnología , Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia/psicología , Intento de Suicidio/etnología , Población Blanca/psicología , Adolescente , Adulto , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Ideación Suicida , Intento de Suicidio/psicología , Adulto Joven
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J Nerv Ment Dis ; 207(8): 675-682, 2019 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31306289

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The purpose of this study was to examine psychological, substance use, and sociodemographic predictors of 12-month suicide ideation and attempts across six US racial/ethnic groups-white, Latino/a, Black, Asian or Pacific Islander (A/PI), American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN), and multiracial adults. Multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted for 218,765 adults who participated in the 2008-2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Overall, commonly cited factors were associated with increased risk for suicide ideation and attempt for some racial/ethnic groups, but not for others. As one example, 12-month depression was associated with 12-month suicide attempt for A/PI, AI/AN, Latino/a, and white, but not for Black or multiracial adults. Alcohol abuse and dependence were also associated with suicide attempt for AI/AN, Black, and white respondents but not for other racial/ethnic groups. Risk factors for suicide ideation and attempt may not increase risk universally. More theoretically supported research is needed.


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Alcoholismo/etnología , Depresión/etnología , Etnicidad/estadística & datos numéricos , Grupos Raciales/etnología , Ideación Suicida , Intento de Suicidio/etnología , Adolescente , Adulto , Anciano , Femenino , Encuestas Epidemiológicas , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estados Unidos/etnología , Adulto Joven
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Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30474989

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OBJECTIVE: To examine purpose in life (PIL) and ethnic identity (EI) as buffers to suicide ideation for Asian American, Hispanic, and Black emerging adults who perceive racial discrimination. METHOD: Two-hundred eighty-nine undergraduate students enrolled at a large university in the southwestern region of the United States (40.8% Asian American, 32.5% Hispanic, 26.6% Black; 61.2% women; mean age = 20.47, SD = 1.83) reported on experiences of racial discrimination, PIL, EI, and suicidal thoughts. Covariates were intrinsic religiosity, gender, and age. RESULTS: Regression analysis showed that EI was not a significant moderator for the association between perceived racial discrimination (PRD) and suicidal ideation (ß = -.08, p = .13; 95% confidence interval (CI) [-.19, .03]). However, PIL was a significant moderator (ß = -.11, p = .025; CI [-.20, -.01]). A hierarchical regression showed that PIL as a moderator explained additional variance (ΔR2 = 0.11, p < .001) in suicide ideation above and beyond EI. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide some insight into how life purpose might ameliorate the impact of social stressors above and beyond a positive cultural identity for young racial/ethnic minority adults. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

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Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol ; 24(4): 470-476, 2018 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29952581

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There are elevated rates of trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and greater conditional risk of posttraumatic stress disorder among Latinx relative to other racial/ethnic groups. Such trauma-related health disparities serve to exacerbate or maintain acculturative and other types of stress among the Latinx population. Yet, little research has explored what types of individual difference factors may undergird variability in acculturative stress among trauma-exposed Latinx persons. Accordingly, the present investigation examined individual differences in anxiety sensitivity (fear of the negative consequences of stress sensations) in relation to acculturative stress among a large sample of trauma-exposed Latinx young adults (n = 1,377 persons; Mage = 21.01; SD = 2.50; age range: 18-29 years; 76.7% female). Results demonstrated that anxiety sensitivity explained 10.2% of unique variance in acculturative stress (p < .001, adjusted R² = .188) after accounting for age, sexual minority status, history of trauma exposure, and posttraumatic stress symptom severity. Additionally, each of the 3 subfactors of anxiety sensitivity (Physical, Cognitive, and Social) were directly related to acculturative stress despite sharing variance with one another. Overall, the current findings suggest that anxiety sensitivity may be a heretofore underrecognized individual difference factor that is related to more severe acculturative stress among trauma-exposed Latinx young adults. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).


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Aculturación , Ansiedad/psicología , Hispánicos o Latinos/psicología , Salud Mental/estadística & datos numéricos , Trastornos por Estrés Postraumático/psicología , Poblaciones Vulnerables/psicología , Adulto , Trastornos de Ansiedad/psicología , Miedo , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Autoimagen , Adulto Joven
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Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol ; 23(4): 561-569, 2017 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28604020

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OBJECTIVES: The mental health outcomes associated with racial discrimination are well documented in scientific literature. Despite strong links to mental illness, hopelessness is largely overlooked as a consequence of discrimination in empirical research. The current study examined the association of race-related stress and hopelessness in a community sample of African American adults. Utilizing a risk-resilience framework, we examined multiple dimensions of social support as plausible protective factors against the negative effects of race-related stress. METHOD: Self-report measures of race-related stress (Index of Race Related Stress-Brief; Utsey & Ponterotto, 1996), hopelessness (Beck Hopelessness Scale; Beck, Weissman, Lester, & Trexler, 1974), and social support (Interpersonal Support Evaluation List; Cohen & Hoberman, 1983) were completed by a sample of African American adults (N = 243; mean age = 35.89 years). RESULTS: Multiple regression analyses were conducted to assess the main and interactive effects of race-related stress and three dimensions of social support (appraisal, belonging, and self-esteem) in relation to hopelessness ratings. All dimensions of social support were associated with self-reported hopelessness, with the self-esteem dimension emerging as the strongest predictor. Though self-esteem social support buffered the role of race-related stress on self-reported hopelessness, appraisal and belonging support did not. CONCLUSIONS: Individual and collective morale for one's racial group (via self-esteem social support) may be especially valuable for African Americans who face racial discrimination. Findings highlight the importance of culturally relevant factors that may ameliorate the effects of race-related stress. (PsycINFO Database Record


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Ansiedad/psicología , Negro o Afroamericano/psicología , Autoimagen , Apoyo Social , Estrés Psicológico/psicología , Adaptación Psicológica , Adulto , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Relaciones Raciales , Autoinforme
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Omega (Westport) ; 74(3): 295-303, 2017 Feb.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28038507

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In a sample of 419 college students, intrinsic religiosity scores, but not extrinsic religiosity scores, contributed significantly to the prediction of current suicidal ideation. Religiosity was a protective factor for suicidal ideation in women but not in men and in European American students but not in African American students. The assessment of suicidal risk, therefore, may require different sets of scales depending on the sex and ethnicity of the client.


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Religión , Estudiantes/psicología , Intento de Suicidio/psicología , Negro o Afroamericano , Características Culturales , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Psicometría , Factores Sexuales , Intento de Suicidio/etnología , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Estados Unidos , Población Blanca , Adulto Joven
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J Nerv Ment Dis ; 202(8): 569-75, 2014 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25010106

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African-American women are at high risk for suicide ideation and suicide attempts and use emergency psychiatric services at disproportionately high rates relative to men and other ethnic groups. However, suicide death rates are low for this population. Cultural variables in the African-American community may promote resilience and prevent fatal suicidal behavior among African-American women. The present study evaluated self-reported reasons for living as a protective factor against suicidal intent and suicide attempt lethality in a sample of African-American female suicide attempters (n = 150). Regression analyses revealed that reasons for living were negatively associated with suicidal intent, even after controlling for spiritual well-being and symptoms of depression. These results indicate that the ability to generate and contemplate reasons for valuing life may serve as a protective characteristic against life-threatening suicidal behavior among African-American women. Implications for research and clinical practice are further discussed.


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Adaptación Psicológica , Negro o Afroamericano/etnología , Depresión/etnología , Depresión/psicología , Intento de Suicidio/etnología , Intento de Suicidio/psicología , Adaptación Psicológica/fisiología , Adolescente , Adulto , Depresión/diagnóstico , Femenino , Humanos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Escalas de Valoración Psiquiátrica , Factores de Riesgo , Autoinforme , Adulto Joven
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Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol ; 20(3): 307-15, 2014 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25045943

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Although emotional health has been theoretically and empirically linked to physical health, the anxiety-physical health association in particular is not well understood for African American adults. This study examined anxiety as a specific correlate of perceived health in addition to testing the potential moderating role of emotion regulation, an index of how and when individuals modulate emotions, in the association for anxiety to perceived health. Study participants were 151 community-based African American adults who completed measures of anxiety symptomatology and emotion regulation in addition to responding to a self-report question of perceived health. Results showed that higher levels of anxiety symptomatology were associated with poorer health ratings for those who reported more limited access to emotion regulation strategies but not those who reported having more emotion regulation strategies. The findings suggest that anxiety-related distress and health problems may be interrelated when emotion regulation strategies are limited. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).


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Ansiedad/psicología , Actitud Frente a la Salud , Negro o Afroamericano/psicología , Percepción , Adolescente , Adulto , Emociones , Femenino , Humanos , Control Interno-Externo , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Autoinforme , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Adulto Joven
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Cognit Ther Res ; 46(1): 31-42, 2022 Feb.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37800123

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Background: Mexican Americans represent the largest subpopulation among Latinx persons and experience numerous health inequalities for psychological symptoms and behavioral health problems. First generation Mexican Americans are particularly vulnerable to such disparities and past work suggests that the experience of acculturative stress may play a vital role in terms of mental and physical health problems among this population. The current study sought to bridge past work on acculturative stress among first-generation Mexican Americans by exploring the role of anxiety sensitivity (AS; fear of the negative consequences of internal sensations) as a potential mediational factor in terms of psychological and behavioral health problems among this group. Methods: The current study consisted of 369 first generation Mexican American persons (86.2% female, 40.1 years of age (SD = 11.1) years in the U.S. attending a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center located in an urban southwestern community. We explored whether AS served as a mediator between acculturative stress and some of the most common and disabling clinical problems among this group, including social anxiety, anxious arousal, general depression, insomnia and pain intensity and disability. Result: Consistent with prediction, there was a statistically significant indirect effect of acculturative stress via AS across all criterion variables apart from pain intensity (depression [ab = - 0.17, SE = 0.05, 95% CI [0.08, 0.26]], insomnia [ab = 0.07, SE = 0.02, 95% CI [0.03, 0.10]], social anxiety [ab 0.05, SE = 0.02, 95% CI [0.02, 0.08]], anxious arousal [ab = 0.08, SE = 0.03, 95% CI [0.03, 0.12]], pain disability [ab = 0.05, SE = 0.02, 95% CI [0.02, 0.09]]). Comparative models were run to evaluate the specificity of hypothesized statistically significant models. For all models except anxious arousal and general depression, the alternative model was rejected, adding support to the hypothesized pathway. Conclusion: Overall, this work provides initial support for the role of AS in terms of the relation between acculturative stress and numerous psychological and behavioral health problems among Mexican American adults in a clinical setting.

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Suicide Life Threat Behav ; 51(5): 1005-1014, 2021 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34184305

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INTRODUCTION: While suicide attempts and deaths increase, research and assessment methods have stagnated in terms of increasing predictive power. Lexical analysis has been a useful method in descriptive suicide research, but may have utility for assessment and prediction. OBJECTIVE: The present study used lexical analysis to examine language differences across a spectrum of psychological distress, with death by suicide as the most extreme indicator. METHODS: Suicide writings were collected for 38 persons who died by suicide in two southern U.S. cities. Blog writings were collected from the "Depression" and "Suicide" categories of an online mental health discussion community and from food blogging communities (n = 38 each). Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count was used to calculate proportions of words that fell into lexical categories indicative of distress. RESULTS: One-way ANOVA revealed significant differences in first-person singular pronouns and words related to positive emotions, negative emotions, religion, and death. Suicide notes were found to use less frequent lexical markers of distress than depression and suicide ideation blogs, and more frequent positive emotion language than all comparison groups. CONCLUSION: The present findings suggest that deciding to take one's life may be associated with a decrease in distress, and possibly an increase in positive emotion, when compared to those experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts.


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Blogging , Ideación Suicida , Culinaria , Depresión , Emociones , Humanos , Lenguaje
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J Affect Disord ; 289: 74-80, 2021 06 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33945917

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BACKGROUND: Anxiety sensitivity (AS), defined as the fear of anxiety-related sensations, is associated with increased risk for suicide and related behavior. However, investigations of AS have centered on primarily non-Hispanic White men and women and with limited attention to clinically relevant underlying factors. METHODS: The purpose of this preliminary study was to examine the indirect effect of AS on suicide ideation and elevated suicide risk through mindfulness in a sample of 307 Black adults (79.2% female; Mage = 22.4, SD = 5.6). Participants completed an online questionnaire battery that included measures of AS, mindfulness, suicide ideation, and elevated suicide risk. RESULTS: After controlling for age and gender, results indicated that AS was directly and indirectly associated with suicide ideation and elevated suicide risk via lower levels of mindfulness. LIMITATIONS: Limitations include using a cross-sectional methodological design and exclusive reliance on self-report measures. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide preliminary insight into novel risk and protective factors that influence suicide ideation and elevated suicide risk among Black Americans.


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Atención Plena , Adulto , Negro o Afroamericano , Ansiedad , Estudios Transversales , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Factores de Riesgo , Ideación Suicida , Adulto Joven
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Transcult Psychiatry ; 58(6): 817-827, 2021 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32928075

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The Latinx population suffers from mental health inequalities. Although past work has implicated acculturative stress and anxiety sensitivity as important individual difference factors for anxiety and depression in this group, it is presently unclear how they work together to influence more severe anxiety and depressive symptom expression among Latinx. To help address this gap in the existing literature, the current study evaluated the role of concurrent anxiety sensitivity and acculturative stress, in terms of anxiety and depressive symptoms and disorders, in a Latinx population in a primary care setting. Participants included 142 Latinx individuals (86.7% female; Mage = 39.66, SD = 11.34). After accounting for shared variance, the results indicated that both anxiety sensitivity and acculturative stress were significantly associated with anxious arousal symptoms, social anxiety, and depressive symptoms. However, anxiety sensitivity, but not acculturative stress, was significantly related to a number of mood and anxiety disorders. These findings suggest the importance of assessing both anxiety sensitivity and acculturative stress in routine mental health screening, as both factors may be related to poorer psychological health among this group.


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Trastornos de Ansiedad , Salud Mental , Aculturación , Adulto , Ansiedad , Depresión , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Atención Primaria de Salud , Estrés Psicológico
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Arch Clin Neuropsychol ; 36(6): 874-886, 2021 Aug 31.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33236037

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OBJECTIVE: To examine the factor structure and sociodemographic correlates of a battery of clinical neuropsychological tests administered in-home and via telephone. METHOD: Participants included 280 healthy adults who completed a 35-40 min battery consisting of seven auditory-verbal neuropsychological tests (i.e., 10 variables) that included digit span, list learning and memory, prospective memory, verbal fluency, and oral trail making. RESULTS: After removing oral trail making part A, a three-factor model comprised of executive functions, memory and attention demonstrated the best fit to the data. Nevertheless, the shared variance between the nine remaining neuropsychological variables was also adequately explained by a single-factor model and a two-factor model comprised of executive functions and memory. Factor scores were variably associated with education, race/ethnicity, and IQ, but not with sex or age. CONCLUSIONS: Findings provide preliminary support for the feasibility and factor structure and sociodemographic correlates of a brief telephone-based screening neuropsychological battery comprised mostly of commonly administered clinical measures. Future studies are needed to determine the test-retest reliability, sensitivity, and ecological relevance of this battery, as well as equivalency to in-person assessment.


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Trastornos del Conocimiento , Adulto , Función Ejecutiva , Humanos , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Teléfono
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J Clin Exp Neuropsychol ; 43(5): 497-513, 2021 07.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34142928

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Introduction: The rapid development of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) into a pandemic required people to quickly acquire, evaluate, and apply novel complex health-related information about the virus and transmission risks. This study examined the potentially unique and synergistic roles of individual differences in neurocognition and health literacy in the early uptake and use of COVID-19 public health information.Method: Data were collected between April 23 and 21 May 2020, a period during which 42 out of 50 states were under a stay-at-home order. Participants were 217 healthy adults who completed a telephone-based battery that included standard tests of neurocognition, health literacy, verbal IQ, personality, and anxiety. Participants also completed measures of COVID-19 information-seeking skills, knowledge, prevention intentions, and prevention behaviors.Results: A series of hierarchical multiple regressions with data-driven covariates showed that neurocognition (viz, episodic verbal memory and executive functions) was independently related to COVID-19 knowledge (e.g. symptoms, risks) at a medium effect size, but not to information-seeking skills, prevention intentions, or prevention behaviors. Health literacy was independently related to all measured aspects of COVID-19 health information and did not interact with neurocognition in any COVID-19 health domain.Conclusions: Individual differences in neurocognition and health literacy played independent and meaningful roles in the initial acquisition of knowledge related to COVID-19, which is a novel human health condition. Future studies might examine whether neurocognitive supports (e.g. spaced retrieval practice, elaboration) can improve COVID-19-related knowledge and health behaviors in vulnerable populations.


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COVID-19 , Conductas Relacionadas con la Salud , Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud , Alfabetización en Salud , Individualidad , Adolescente , Adulto , Anciano , COVID-19/epidemiología , Estudios Transversales , Femenino , Salud , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , SARS-CoV-2 , Adulto Joven
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BMC Psychiatry ; 10: 35, 2010 May 19.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20482844

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BACKGROUND: Suicide officially kills approximately 30,000 annually in the United States. Analysis of this leading public health problem is complicated by undercounting. Despite persisting socioeconomic and health disparities, non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics register suicide rates less than half that of non-Hispanic Whites. METHODS: This cross-sectional study uses multiple cause-of-death data from the US National Center for Health Statistics to assess whether race/ethnicity, psychiatric comorbidity documentation, and other decedent characteristics were associated with differential potential for suicide misclassification. Subjects were 105,946 White, Black, and Hispanic residents aged 15 years and older, dying in the US between 2003 and 2005, whose manner of death was recorded as suicide or injury of undetermined intent. The main outcome measure was the relative odds of potential suicide misclassification, a binary measure of manner of death: injury of undetermined intent (includes misclassified suicides) versus suicide. RESULTS: Blacks (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 2.38; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.22-2.57) and Hispanics (1.17, 1.07-1.28) manifested excess potential suicide misclassification relative to Whites. Decedents aged 35-54 (AOR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.84-0.93), 55-74 (0.52, 0.49-0.57), and 75+ years (0.51, 0.46-0.57) showed diminished misclassification potential relative to decedents aged 15-34, while decedents with 0-8 years (1.82, 1.75-1.90) and 9-12 years of education (1.43, 1.40-1.46) showed excess potential relative to the most educated (13+ years). Excess potential suicide misclassification was also apparent for decedents without (AOR, 3.12; 95% CI, 2.78-3.51) versus those with psychiatric comorbidity documented on their death certificates, and for decedents whose mode of injury was "less active" (46.33; 43.32-49.55) versus "more active." CONCLUSIONS: Data disparities might explain much of the Black-White suicide rate gap, if not the Hispanic-White gap. Ameliorative action would extend from training in death certification to routine use of psychological autopsies in equivocal-manner-of-death cases.


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Causas de Muerte/tendencias , Etnicidad/estadística & datos numéricos , Grupos Raciales/estadística & datos numéricos , Suicidio/clasificación , Suicidio/etnología , Adolescente , Adulto , Negro o Afroamericano/estadística & datos numéricos , Distribución por Edad , Anciano , Comorbilidad , Estudios Transversales , Escolaridad , Femenino , Encuestas de Atención de la Salud , Disparidades en el Estado de Salud , Disparidades en Atención de Salud , Hispánicos o Latinos/estadística & datos numéricos , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Grupos Minoritarios/estadística & datos numéricos , Factores Socioeconómicos , Suicidio/estadística & datos numéricos , Estados Unidos/etnología , Población Blanca/estadística & datos numéricos
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BMC Public Health ; 10: 705, 2010 Nov 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21083903

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BACKGROUND: Two counter trends in injury mortality have been separately reported in the US in recent times - a declining suicide rate and a rapidly rising unintentional poisoning mortality rate. Poisoning suicides are especially difficult to detect, and injury of undetermined intent is the underlying cause-of-death category most likely to reflect this difficulty. We compare suicide and poisoning mortality trends over two decades in a preliminary assessment of their independence and implications for suicide misclassification. METHODS: Description of overall and gender- and age-specific trends using national mortality data from WISQARS, the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Subjects were the 936,633 residents dying in the 50 states and the District of Columbia between 1987 and 2006 whose underlying cause of death was classified as suicide, unintentional poisoning, or injury mortality of undetermined intent. RESULTS: The official US suicide rate declined 18% between 1987 and 2000, from 12.71 to 10.43 deaths per 100,000 population. It then increased to 11.15 deaths per 100,000 by 2006, a 7% rise. By contrast to these much smaller rate changes for suicide, the unintentional poisoning mortality rate rose more than fourfold between 1987 and 2006, from 2.19 to 9.22 deaths per 100,000. Only the population aged 65 years and older showed a sustained decline in the suicide rate over the entire observation period. Consistently highest in gender-age comparisons, the elderly male rate declined by 35%. The elderly female rate declined by 43%. Unlike rate trends for the non-elderly, both declines appeared independent of corresponding mortality trends for unintentional poisoning and poisoning of undetermined intent. The elderly also deviated from younger counterparts by having a smaller proportion of their injury deaths of undetermined intent classified as poisoning. Poisoning manifested as a less common method of suicide for this group than other decedents, except for those aged 15-24 years. Although remaining low, the undetermined poisoning mortality rate increased over the observation period. CONCLUSIONS: The official decline in the suicide rate between 1987 and 2000 may have been a partial artifact of misclassification of non-elderly suicides within unintentional poisoning mortality. We recommend in-depth national, regional, and local population-based research investigations of the poisoning-suicide nexus, and endorse calls for widening the scope of the definition of suicide and evaluation of its risk factors.


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Intoxicación/mortalidad , Suicidio/tendencias , Adolescente , Adulto , Bases de Datos Factuales , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Mortalidad/tendencias , Estados Unidos/epidemiología , Adulto Joven
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Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol ; 16(3): 372-8, 2010 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20658880

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Patterns of suicide resilience vary considerably across ethnic groups and are an understudied dimension of suicide science. The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between cultural worldview and "reasons for living," an alternative index for suicide risk in a cross-cultural sample. The Reasons for Living Inventory and Worldview Analysis Scale were administered together with measures of hopelessness and depressive symptoms to 139 African American and 161 European American participants. Cultural worldview functioned as a moderator for African American but not European American participants in predicting reasons for living scores. African Americans who reported a less African-centered worldview also reported fewer reasons for living as hopelessness increased. However, African Americans who reported a more African-centered worldview reported less justification to live as depressive symptoms increased. These findings provide insight to suicide resilience profiles across and within ethnic groups and suggest that assessments of reasons for living and cultural correlates might have important implications for future research and clinical practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).


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Cultura , Depresión/etnología , Etnicidad/etnología , Suicidio/psicología , Adolescente , Adulto , Población Negra/estadística & datos numéricos , Depresión/psicología , Etnicidad/psicología , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Escalas de Valoración Psiquiátrica , Estados Unidos , Población Blanca/estadística & datos numéricos , Adulto Joven
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