Uncertainty and Perceived Control as Predictors of Communicative Participation and Mental Health in Adults Who Stutter

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Michael P. Boyle ◽  
Nicole J. Chagachbanian
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Target Uncertainty ◽  
Significant Variance ◽  
Therapeutic Outcomes ◽  
Communicative Participation ◽  
Adults Who Stutter

Purpose: This study examined the role of uncertainty and perceived control in predicting the communicative participation and mental health of adults who stutter. Method: Two hundred sixty-nine adults who stutter completed measures of uncertainty about stuttering, perceived control of stuttering, communicative participation, and global mental health. In addition, participants self-reported on a variety of demographic and speech-related measures. Correlational analyses and hierarchical regression were performed to determine associations between variables of interest. Results: Uncertainty accounted for significant variance in communicative participation and global mental health after statistically controlling for the effects of demographic and speech-related variables. Perceived control accounted for significant variance in communicative participation over and above what was accounted for by demographic variables, speech-related variables, and uncertainty. Conclusions: The findings suggest that uncertainty about stuttering and perceived control of stuttering should be accounted for during assessment and intervention with adults who stutter. Interventions that specifically target uncertainty and perceived control may be useful in improving therapeutic outcomes for individuals who stutter.

scholarly journals Global mental health: The role of collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kimberly Hook ◽  
Haley A. Carroll ◽  
Elizabeth F. Louis ◽  
Maria C. Prom ◽  
Amelia M. Stanton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Global Mental Health

Racial Discrimination Predicts Mental Health Outcomes Beyond the Role of Personality Traits in a Community Sample of African Americans

2021 ◽  
pp. 216770262095731
Author(s):  
Yara Mekawi ◽  
Courtland S. Hyatt ◽  
Jessica Maples-Keller ◽  
Sierra Carter ◽  
Vasiliki Michopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Hierarchical Regression

Despite a consistent body of work documenting associations between racial discrimination and negative mental health outcomes, the utility and validity of these findings have recently been questioned because some authors have posited that personality traits may account for these associations. To test this hypothesis in a community sample of African Americans ( n = 419, age: M = 43.96 years), we used bivariate relations and hierarchical regression analyses to determine whether racial discrimination accounted for additional variance in depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms beyond the role of personality. Bivariate relations between personality traits and racial discrimination were small and positive (i.e., rs ≈ .10). Regression results demonstrated that racial discrimination accounted for variance in depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress independent of personality traits ( ps < .01). These results suggest that personality traits do not fully explain associations between racial discrimination and negative mental health outcomes, further supporting the detrimental impact of racial discrimination on the mental health of African Americans.

Global mental health: the role of psychiatry

2009 ◽  
Vol 259 (S2) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetto Saraceno ◽  
Tarun Dua
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Global Mental Health

scholarly journals The role of communities in advancing the goals of the Movement for Global Mental Health

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 379-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Campbell ◽  
Rochelle Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Global Mental Health

scholarly journals Ethnographic perspectives on global mental health

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 685-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumeet Jain ◽  
David M. R. Orr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Transcultural Psychiatry ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
Health Policy And Practice

The field of Global Mental Health (GMH) aims to influence mental health policy and practice worldwide, with a focus on human rights and access to care. There have been important achievements, but GMH has also been the focus of scholarly controversies arising from political, cultural, and pragmatic critiques. These debates have become increasingly polarized, giving rise to a need for more dialogue and experience-near research to inform theorizing. Ethnography has much to offer in this respect. This paper frames and introduces five articles in this issue of Transcultural Psychiatry that illustrate the role of ethnographic methods in understanding the effects and implications of the field of global mental health on mental health policy and practice. The papers include ethnographies from South Africa, India, and Tonga that show the potential for ethnographic evidence to inform GMH projects. These studies provide nuanced conceptualizations of GMH's varied manifestations across different settings, the diverse ways that GMH's achievements can be evaluated, and the connections that can be drawn between locally observed experiences and wider historical, political, and social phenomena. Ethnography can provide a basis for constructive dialogue between those engaged in developing and implementing GMH interventions and those critical of some of its approaches.

scholarly journals Information for global mental health

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Lora ◽  
P. Sharan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
World Health ◽  
Mental Health Systems ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Role Of Information

Background.Information is needed for development of mental health (MH) services; and particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs), where the MH systems are relatively weak. World Health Organization (WHO) has worked intensively during the last 15 years for developing a strategy in the field of MH information.Methods.The paper analyzes WHO instruments developed in this area [MH Atlas series and WHO Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS)].Results.Data from Atlas series and WHO-AIMS demonstrated that the role of information is often neglected at all the steps: from data collection and processing to analysis, dissemination and utilization, particularly in LAMIC. By implementing several sets of feasible MH indicators WHO has technically supported the improvement of the MH information systems in LAMICs.Conclusions.In the last few years the importance of information in MH has increased and has been successfully highlighted; but a lot of work still needs to be done for achieving a minimum set of MH indicators and reliable data that can be used by both high-income countries and LAMIC.

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