scholarly journals Advancing Health Equity in Digital Mental Health: Lessons From Medical Anthropology for Global Mental Health

10.2196/28555 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. e28555
Author(s):  
Ellen Elizabeth Kozelka ◽  
Janis H Jenkins ◽  
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Health Care Models ◽  
Care Models ◽  
Experience Of Illness

Digital health engenders the opportunity to create new effective mental health care models—from substance use recovery to suicide prevention. Anthropological methodologies offer a unique opportunity for the field of global mental health to examine and incorporate contextual mental health needs through attention to the lived experience of illness; engagement with communities; and knowledge of context, structures, and systems. Attending to these diverse mental health needs and conditions as well as the limitations of digital health will allow global mental health researchers, practitioners, and patients to collaboratively create new models for care in the service of equitable, accessible recovery.

Understanding the Potential of Digital Interventions to Address Mental Health Needs of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community: A Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Borghouts ◽  
Martha Neary ◽  
Kristina Palomares ◽  
Cinthia De Leon ◽  
Stephen M Schueller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Inland Empire ◽  
Mental Health Interventions

BACKGROUND Mental health concerns are a significant issue among the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community, but community members can face several unique challenges to accessing appropriate resources. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the mental health needs of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community, and how mental health digital therapeutics, such as apps, may be able to support these needs. METHODS Ten members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community participated in a focus group and survey to provide their views. Participants were members of the Center on Deafness Inland Empire team, which comprises people with lived experience as members of and advocates for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community. RESULTS Findings identified a spectrum of needs for digital therapeutics including offering American Sign Language and English support, increased education of mental health to reduce stigma around mental health, direct communication with a Deaf worker, and apps that are accessible to a range of community members in terms of culture, resources required and location. CONCLUSIONS These findings can inform the development of digital mental health interventions and outreach strategies that are appropriate for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community.

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR INFORMATION ON MENTAL HEALTH. DOES WHAT WE DO AFFECT THE WAY WE PERCEIVE THEM? A QUANTITATIVE STUDY AMONG THE ADULT POPULATION IN BRAȘOV, ROMANIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 14(63) (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Andra Ioana Maria Tudor ◽  
Gabriel Brătucu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Quantitative Marketing ◽  
Health Disorders

This paper discusses whether and to what extent the occupational level of the adult population in Brasov County affects the perceptions regarding the digital tools’ importance for information on mental health disorders such as depression and how the population with different occupational levels perceives and assimilates the digital tools for mental health needs. A quantitative marketing research was conducted among 514 adults from Brasov County. The ANOVA test was applied to achieve the set goal. The outcomes are useful for academics and practitioners to design sustainable digital health policies and create efficient prevention campaigns for depression, by focusing on digital tools.

Jail Diversion for the Mentally Ill: Breaking through the Barriers: Effectively Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Jail Detainees

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel A. Dvoskin ◽  
Patricia A. Griffin ◽  
Eliot Hartstone ◽  
Ronald Jemelka ◽  
Henry J. Steadman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Jail Diversion ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Jail Detainees
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