scholarly journals Trans and gender diverse young people's attitudes towards game-based digital mental health interventions: A qualitative investigation

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 100280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope Strauss ◽  
Helen Morgan ◽  
Dani Wright Toussaint ◽  
Ashleigh Lin ◽  
Sam Winter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
People’S Attitudes

Associations of LGBTQ+ Identities with Acceptability and Response to Online Single-Session Youth Mental Health Interventions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riley McDanal ◽  
Alex Rubin ◽  
Kathryn Fox ◽  
Jessica L. Schleider
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Single Session ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Alaskan Native ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Intervention Acceptability ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Provider Shortages

Background: A majority of youth with depression and related difficulties never access treatment. Barriers such as stigma, financial costs, and provider shortages contribute to this problem. Single session interventions (SSIs) have been found to benefit youth and help reduce depression symptoms. Since many SSIs are brief and can be accessed online, they may circumvent traditional barriers to accessing treatment, thus supporting wellbeing in individuals otherwise unable to access care. SSIs may be particularly beneficial for LGBTQ+ youth, for whom barriers to treatment are often exacerbated. There is a need to determine whether LGBTQ+ youth respond as positively to SSIs as non-LGBTQ+ youth, or if adaptations are needed prior to widespread dissemination. Methods: We investigated whether changes in helplessness, agency, and self-hate from before to after completing online SSIs differed as a function of LGBTQ+ identity in a sample of 258 youths (N=258, 81.4% female assigned sex, 60.5% LGBTQ+, 47.3% BIPOC). We also quantitatively and qualitatively compared intervention acceptability ratings and feedback across LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ youths. Results: Analyses revealed no significant differences between cisgender LGBQ+, trans and gender diverse, and cisgender heterosexual youths for any intervention outcomes. Likewise, no group differences emerged in intervention acceptability ratings or written program feedback. Limitations: Self-selection bias and underrepresentation of certain populations, such as American Indian and Alaskan Native youths, may limit generalizability of results.Conclusions: Results suggest that online mental health SSIs are equally acceptable and useful to LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ youth alike, even without culturally specific tailoring.

Review of Mental Health Interventions for the Aging.

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 742-743
Author(s):  
Richard Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Mental Health Interventions

Effects of mental health interventions with Asian Americans: A review and meta-analysis.

2018 ◽  
Vol 86 (11) ◽  
pp. 915-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley J. Huey ◽  
Jacqueline L. Tilley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Mental Health Interventions

Are women still “the other”? Gendered mental health interventions for health care workers in Spain during COVID-19.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (S1) ◽  
pp. S243-S244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayte López-Atanes ◽  
María Recio-Barbero ◽  
Margarita Sáenz-Herrero
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Mental Health Interventions

An engagement-facilitation intervention (EFI) for increasing uptake and engagement for self-guided online mental health interventions: Consumer-guided development (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia Gulliver ◽  
Alison L Calear ◽  
Matthew Sunderland ◽  
Frances Kay-Lambkin ◽  
Louise M Farrer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Mental Health Program ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Barriers And Facilitators ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
Mental Health Programs

BACKGROUND Self-guided online mental health programs are effective in treating and preventing mental health problems. However, both the uptake and engagement with these programs in the community is suboptimal, and there is limited current evidence indicating how to increase the use of existing evidence-based programs. OBJECTIVE The current study aims to investigate the views of people with lived experience of depression and anxiety on the barriers and facilitators to using e-mental health interventions and to use these perspectives to help develop an engagement-facilitation intervention (EFI) to increase uptake and engagement with self-guided online mental health programs. METHODS A total of 24 community members (female = 21; male = 3) with lived experience of depression and/or anxiety participated in four focus groups that discussed: 1) barriers and facilitators to self-guided e-mental health programs, 2) specific details needed to help them decide to use an online program, and 3) the appearance, delivery mode, and functionality of content for the proposed EFI. A total of 14 of the focus group attendees participated in a subsequent follow-up survey to evaluate the resultant draft EFI. Data were thematically analysed using both inductive and deductive methods. RESULTS Participants suggested that the critical component of an EFI was information that would challenge personal barriers to engagement with psychosocial interventions. These were providing personalised feedback about symptoms, information about the content and effectiveness of the e-mental health program, normalisation of participation in e-mental health programs including testimonials, and brief information on data security. Reminders, rewards, feedback about their progress, and coaching were all mentioned as being useful in assisting people to continue to engage with a program once they had started. Feedback on the developed EFI was positive; with participants reporting satisfaction with the content of the EFI and that it would likely positively affect their use of an e-mental health program. CONCLUSIONS EFIs have the potential to improve the uptake of e-mental health programs in the community and should focus on providing information on the content and effectiveness of e-mental health programs, as well as normalising their use. There is strong value in involving people with a lived experience in the design and development of EFIs to maximise their effectiveness.

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