Luis H Zayas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis H Zayas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis H |
| FAMILY NAME | Zayas |
| SIGNATURE | ZAYAS L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3356-7233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 59 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Parents’ perspectives on trajectories of well-being for immigrant youth from Central America
30 interviews), the research revealed a complex landscape of challenges and adaptations during resettlement. While initial adverse emotional outcomes were common, these tended to improve over time as families gained stability in the United States. Family structure emerged as crucial, with unified families faring better than those fractured by immigration-related separation. Schools generally provided a protective environment, with mental health s…
Rethinking comorbidity
Decades of research have established a significant association between people struggling with an eating disorder and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Despite a robust literature indicating a link between these two mental health conditions, few studies have explored how differential risk factors interact over time to produce this comorbidity. Using the lens of syndemic risk, this study applied a critical case study design to identify the social an…
Charting suicide risk in Latina adolescents
This study highlights the importance of culturally responsive suicide prevention strategies that strengthen social support, cultural socialization, and ethnic pride. By modeling suicide risk as a dynamic system, these findings provide new insights for intervention efforts tailored to the experiences of Latina adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Well-being and contexts of development of U.S. citizen children in Mexico following parental deportation or voluntary relocation
When undocumented immigrant parents are deported from the United States, they must decide whether or not to take their U.S.-born and undocumented immigrant children with them, often to countries the children have never visited or know little about. Other parents do not wait to be deported by the government and decide to relocate to their home countries with or without their children. Both sets of families experience relocation but under different…
Emotional Wellbeing of Asylum-Seeking Children After Release From Immigration Detention
Families seeking asylum in the United States are often placed in detention centers after fleeing crime, violence, and government ineffectiveness in their countries. Migration brings more hardship, terror, and trauma. The cumulative psychological and social effects from detention need to be better understood. This exploratory study examines the effects of detention and family separation on immigrant children’s psychosocial wellbeing after released…
Two pathways to Mexico
Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Mexican immigrants were deported from the United States or returned to Mexico voluntarily in the past two decades, taking with them their US‐born citizen children (USCC). A family's relocation—forced deportation or voluntary return—and the subsequent settlement and adjustment to Mexico affect everyone's well‐being. We interviewed 18 USCC whose parents were forcibly deported and 18 whose parents returned volun…
Father–Daughter Relationships among Latina Adolescents Who Attempted Suicide
Among adolescents, Latinas are at an increased risk of experiencing suicidal ideation and attempts compared to non‐Hispanic, White youth. Previous research indicates that family dynamics are influential as both protective and risk factors. Although significant research has been conducted over the past several decades examining the mother–daughter relationship, few studies have examined the father–daughter relationship among Latina adolescent suic…
Sibling relationships among U.S. citizen children of undocumented Mexican parents
Current U.S. immigration policies disproportionately impact Mexican‐origin mixed‐status families, yet few studies examine the consequences of immigration enforcement (e.g., immigration‐related arrest and detention) and deportation on sibling dynamics. Given this gap, this study focuses on the experiences and changes within sibling relationships in the aftermath of parental detention and deportation. We analyzed a subsample of 20 citizen children …
Social Work Advocacy in Federal Immigration Courts
Advocacy for immigrant families undertaken by social workers, attorneys, and other supporters to protect against deportation, detention, and unfair government policies occurs mostly in immigration and federal courts. Social workers bring unique knowledge and skills that enhance legal teams' representation of immigrants. This paper provides case illustrations of social work's contribution in three types of legal actions. One illustration from immi…
Evaluating the interpersonal–psychological theory of suicide among Latina adolescents using qualitative comparative analysis
The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS) has emerged as an empirically supported theory of suicide risk, yet few studies have utilized IPTS to examine the suicidal behaviors of Latina adolescents. In this study, we explore the cultural and developmental appropriateness, as well as the explanatory fit, of IPTS within a sample of Latina adolescents. Data for this project were drawn from qualitative interviews conducted with Latina a…
Trajectories of Well-Being Among Latina Adolescents Who Attempt Suicide
Significant research questions persist regarding the short- and long-term outcomes of Latina adolescents who attempt suicide. To address these limitations, we utilize an ecodevelopmental framework to identify potential factors that shape differential outcomes following a suicide attempt. Through an exploratory, longitudinal, qualitative research design, we investigate two research questions: How do trajectories of well-being vary among Latina tee…
Integration of unaccompanied migrant youth in the United States
Between October 2013 and July 2016, over 156,000 children traveling without their guardians were apprehended at the US-Mexico border and transferred to the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). During that same period, ORR placed over 123,000 unaccompanied migrant youth-predominantly from Central America-with a parent or other adult sponsor residing in the US. Following placement, local communities are tasked with integrating migrant …
Exploring the Effects of U.S. Immigration Enforcement on the Well-being of Citizen Children in Mexican Immigrant Families
In this article, we draw on ecocultural theories of risk and resilience to examine qualitatively the experiences of U.S. citizen-children living with their undocumented Mexican parents. Of central importance is the fact that citizen-children's daily lives are organized around the very real possibility that their undocumented parents could one day be detained and deported. Our purpose is to render visible the various ways in which citizen-children…
Charting Directions for Research on Immigrant Children Affected by Undocumented Status
Three groups of children from Mexico and Central America are vulnerable to effects of U.S. immigration policies: (1) foreign-born children who entered the United States with undocumented immigrant parents; (2) unaccompanied children who entered the United States alone; and (3) U.S.-born citizen-children of undocumented immigrant parents. Despite the recent demographic growth of these youth, scholarship on their strengths and challenges is under-t…
Growing up in the U.S. Inner City
This chapter examines how adolescent development and acculturation impact suicidal behavior among Latinas living in the US inner city. After providing an overview of conceptual and empirical premises underlying immigrant youth development, acculturation, and suicidal behaviors, the article discusses cultural influences on Latina adolescents and their families. Drawing on data collected between 2005 and 2009, it then explores the various individua…
Deportation experiences and depression among U.S. citizen‐children with undocumented Mexican parents
The Distress of Citizen-Children with Detained and Deported Parents
Perceived discrimination and sexual precursor behaviors in Mexican American preadolescent girls
This study underscores the importance of psychological distress in the perceived discrimination and sexual precursor link as well as the compensatory aspects of marianismo against sexual precursor behaviors in Mexican American preadolescent girls. (PsycINFO Database Record
An exploratory study of nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviors in adolescent Latinas
To date, there is little research to validate empirically differences between nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior (NSSI) and attempted suicide among Latina adolescents. Understanding the characteristics and contextual features of self-harmful behaviors among Latina teens is a critical public health and social justice matter given the disproportionate rates of attempted suicide and anticipated population growth of this vulnerable group. In this ar…
Forgotten citizens
The United States Constitution insures that all persons born in the US are citizens with equal protection under the law. But in today's America, the US-born children of undocumented immigrants--over four million of them--do not enjoy fully the benefits of citizenship or of feeling that they belong. Children in mixed-status families are forgotten in the loud and discordant immigration debate. They live under the constant threat that their parents …
Examining the Interplay Among Family, Culture, and Latina Teen Suicidal Behavior
In this article, we explore the relationships among culture, family, and attempted suicide by U.S. Latinas. We analyzed qualitative interviews conducted with Latina teen suicide attempters ( n = 10) and their parents. We also incorporated data collected from adolescents with no reported history of self-harm ( n = 10) and their parents to examine why some individuals turned to suicide under similar experiences of cultural conflict. Our results rev…
Exiling Children, Creating Orphans
Citizen-children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants have become collateral damage of immigration enforcement. These children suffer the effects of immigration laws designed to deport large numbers of people. In removal proceedings, parents often must decide to either leave their citizen-children behind in the care of others or take them to a country the child may have never known. Accordingly, immigration policy frequently creat…
Aspirations of Latina Adolescent Suicide Attempters
Parents’ aspirations and expectations are communicated to their offspring. Children internalize their parents’ aspirations and accept some of the expectations while rejecting others, all part of the developmental process and identity-consolidation. When the aspirations and expectations of youth and parents are incongruent, the outcomes in youths’ behavior can be deleterious, such as when adolescents manifest suicidal behaviors. We examined aspira…
US Cultural Involvement and Its Association With Suicidal Behavior Among Youths in the Dominican Republic
Objectives. We examined how US cultural involvement related to suicide attempts among youths in the Dominican Republic. Methods. We analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of youths attending high school in the Dominican Republic (n = 8446). The outcome of interest was a suicide attempt during the past year. The US cultural involvement indicators included time spent living in the United States, number of friends who had lived in the…
Sacrifice for the sake of the family
Familism is a core value promoted by many individuals of Hispanic or Latino descent that emphasizes the primacy of the family over the individual. This study illuminates some aspects of the relationship between familism and adolescent suicidal behavior. Qualitative data from 24 female Hispanic teens with and without a history of suicidal behaviors and their parents were analyzed to understand the ways in which familism is expressed in their lives…
It’s Like Being in a Labyrinth
Capacity-to-Consent in Psychiatric Research
Objective: Assuring research participants’capacity to provide informed consent has become increasingly important in health and mental health research, and each study faces unique capacity-assessment challenges, possibly requiring its own screening tool. This article describes the development and preliminary testing of a capacity-to-consent tool constructed for a study of psychiatric diagnosing in a community clinic. Method: A 10-item screening de…
Integration of unaccompanied migrant youth in the United States
Between October 2013 and July 2016, over 156,000 children traveling without their guardians were apprehended at the US-Mexico border and transferred to the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). During that same period, ORR placed over 123,000 unaccompanied migrant youth-predominantly from Central America-with a parent or other adult sponsor residing in the US. Following placement, local communities are tasked with integrating migrant …
Cultural and Linguistic Considerations in Psychodiagnosis with Hispanics
It is estimated that in the next century nearly half of the clientele seeking mental health services will be members of ethnic minority groups. Hispanics are the most rapidly growing population in the United States, and epidemiological evidence suggests that they present higher levels of psychiatric symptomatology and prevalence rates of disorder compared with other ethnic groups. Despite the unprecedented recognition of cultural considerations f…
Examining the Interplay Among Family, Culture, and Latina Teen Suicidal Behavior
In this article, we explore the relationships among culture, family, and attempted suicide by U.S. Latinas. We analyzed qualitative interviews conducted with Latina teen suicide attempters ( n = 10) and their parents. We also incorporated data collected from adolescents with no reported history of self-harm ( n = 10) and their parents to examine why some individuals turned to suicide under similar experiences of cultural conflict. Our results rev…
Exiling Children, Creating Orphans
Citizen-children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants have become collateral damage of immigration enforcement. These children suffer the effects of immigration laws designed to deport large numbers of people. In removal proceedings, parents often must decide to either leave their citizen-children behind in the care of others or take them to a country the child may have never known. Accordingly, immigration policy frequently creat…
Perceived discrimination and sexual precursor behaviors in Mexican American preadolescent girls
This study underscores the importance of psychological distress in the perceived discrimination and sexual precursor link as well as the compensatory aspects of marianismo against sexual precursor behaviors in Mexican American preadolescent girls. (PsycINFO Database Record
Exploring the Effects of U.S. Immigration Enforcement on the Well-being of Citizen Children in Mexican Immigrant Families
In this article, we draw on ecocultural theories of risk and resilience to examine qualitatively the experiences of U.S. citizen-children living with their undocumented Mexican parents. Of central importance is the fact that citizen-children's daily lives are organized around the very real possibility that their undocumented parents could one day be detained and deported. Our purpose is to render visible the various ways in which citizen-children…
Understanding Suicide Attempts by Adolescent Hispanic Females
This article presents integrative model to aid clinicians in understanding suicide attempts by adolescent Hispanic females. On the basis of knowledge accumulated through clinical and research experience, the model describes a convergence of sociocultural, familial, developmental, and psychological factors that include considerations of family and parental functioning; adolescent female development; and the relationships of fathers, mothers, and d…
Evaluating an Abbreviated Version of the Hispanic Stress Inventory for Immigrants
This study evaluates an abbreviated version of the Hispanic Stress Inventory-Immigrant version (HSI-I) with a nonclinical sample of 143 adult Hispanic immigrants residing in a large midwestern city. The HSI-I consists of 73 items and 5 distinct subscales that assess psychosocial experiences on five dimensions, namely, occupational/economic, parental, marital, immigration, and familial/cultural. Five items with the greatest loading in each of the …
Toward an Understanding of Suicide Risks in Young Hispanic Females
Hispanic adolescents in the United States have been virtually neglected in the literature on youth suicide. Among Hispanic youth, adolescent females constitute a subgroup at risk for depression and suicidal behavior. The author reviews extant literature on adolescent suicide, and discusses such psychosocial and cultural factors as socioeconomic disadvantage, traditional gender-role socialization, acculturation, cultural identity, and intergenerat…
Reducing Depression in Pregnancy
Research indicates that high levels of stress, low social support networks, and depression during pregnancy have a powerful negative effect on maternal functioning and infant developmental outcomes. Low-income, inner-city women from ethnic minority groups, whose levels of depression have been documented as higher than their white counterparts, are at increased risk, as are their infants. This article reviews the relevant research literature and p…
Mercury use in espiritismo
Mercury use in espiritismo: a survey of botanicas. L H Zayas, and P O OzuahCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.1.111 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Charting Directions for Research on Immigrant Children Affected by Undocumented Status
Three groups of children from Mexico and Central America are vulnerable to effects of U.S. immigration policies: (1) foreign-born children who entered the United States with undocumented immigrant parents; (2) unaccompanied children who entered the United States alone; and (3) U.S.-born citizen-children of undocumented immigrant parents. Despite the recent demographic growth of these youth, scholarship on their strengths and challenges is under-t…
Prenatal and Postpartum Depression among Low-Income Dominican and Puerto Rican Women
This longitudinal study examined depression symptoms among pregnant, low-income, urban Latinas, primarily Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, receiving obstetrical services in community health centers. In all, 106 women were interviewed in late pregnancy, 47 were interviewed again 2 to 3 weeks postpartum, and 42 three months postpartum. Elevated levels of depressive symptoms were evident in 53% of the original sample. Across time, depressive symptoms d…
Acculturation and Teaching Behaviors of Dominican and Puerto Rican Mothers
The relationship between acculturation and maternal teaching behaviors was studied by observing 101 low-income Puerto Rican and Dominican mothers in a teaching task with their preschool children and rating six teaching behaviors frequently used by parents. Puerto Rican mothers tended to be more acculturated than Dominican mothers. Although the two groups tended to prefer teaching behaviors that involved giving directives, visual cues, and modelin…
Recruiting Urban Latina Adolescents and Their Families
Recruiting research samples within vulnerable populations can be challenging, especially due to geographic dispersal and the services accessed, as well as hesitation related to legal status and stigma. Public health, however, requires sustained recruitment efforts. We describe challenges and solutions in recruiting urban adolescent Latinas who had attempted suicide. Procedures for recruitment and human subject protections were established, yet lo…
What Do I Do Now?”
Recent advances made by medicine and psychiatry in the development of practice guidelines and evidence-based interventions are spreading to social work and other helping professions. As the movement toward evidence-based practice grows, more demands for the use of tested interventions will be placed on practitioners. In this paper, we argue that social work practice education must change to respond to this demand. Specifically, evidence-based int…
Depression, Acculturation, and Motivations for Alcohol Use among Young Colombian, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Men
Increasing numbers of young Hispanic men are being treated for alcohol abuse and its consequences. To provide culturally competent services, there must be an understanding of subcultural differences in the antecedents of alcohol abuse and drinking problems. The present study examined the impact of depression, acculturation, and motivations as antecedents for drinking and drinking-related problems among 288 Colombian, Dominican, and Puerto Rican m…
Alcohol and Drug Use, and Depression Among Hispanic Men in Early Adulthood
Community research and clinical practice have shown that alcohol and drug use and depression are interrelated. Among Hispanics, acculturation may play a role in these relationships. To investigate these relationships as well as alcohol‐related problems, we interviewed 288 Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Colombian men in early adulthood. No significant differences emerged in the proportions of abstainers across the three groups. Colombians drank sign…
A Retrospective on "The Suicidal Fit" in Mainland Puerto Ricans
The so-called "suicidalfit"among Puerto Ricans in New York City was reported by Trautman (1961a, 1961b) over two decades ago. Based on a sample of 93 Puerto Ricans who, under severe emotional stress, attempted suicide in almost identical circumstances, his writings provide an early view of suicidal behavior among Puerto Ricans in the South Bronx during the late-1950s. In the intervening time, very little has appeared further documenting and eluci…
US Cultural Involvement and Its Association With Suicidal Behavior Among Youths in the Dominican Republic
Objectives. We examined how US cultural involvement related to suicide attempts among youths in the Dominican Republic. Methods. We analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of youths attending high school in the Dominican Republic (n = 8446). The outcome of interest was a suicide attempt during the past year. The US cultural involvement indicators included time spent living in the United States, number of friends who had lived in the…
Are suicide attempts by young Latinas a cultural idiom of distress
The high rates of suicide attempts among adolescent Hispanic females in the United States have been well established by epidemiological and clinical studies. In this paper, we review the research history of Latina suicide attempts and their characteristics. Then we apply multi-faceted conceptual and empirical criteria found in the anthropological and psychiatric literature about cultural idioms of distress to the suicide attempts of young Latinas…
Diagnostic, Symptom, and Functional Assessments of Hispanic Outpatients in Community Mental Health Practice
Emotional Wellbeing of Asylum-Seeking Children After Release From Immigration Detention
Families seeking asylum in the United States are often placed in detention centers after fleeing crime, violence, and government ineffectiveness in their countries. Migration brings more hardship, terror, and trauma. The cumulative psychological and social effects from detention need to be better understood. This exploratory study examines the effects of detention and family separation on immigrant children’s psychosocial wellbeing after released…
Toward an Understanding of Suicide Risks in Young Hispanic Females
Hispanic adolescents in the United States have been virtually neglected in the literature on youth suicide. Among Hispanic youth, adolescent females constitute a subgroup at risk for depression and suicidal behavior. The author reviews extant literature on adolescent suicide, and discusses such psychosocial and cultural factors as socioeconomic disadvantage, traditional gender-role socialization, acculturation, cultural identity, and intergenerat…
Hispanic adolescent fathers
A Retrospective on "The Suicidal Fit" in Mainland Puerto Ricans
The so-called "suicidalfit"among Puerto Ricans in New York City was reported by Trautman (1961a, 1961b) over two decades ago. Based on a sample of 93 Puerto Ricans who, under severe emotional stress, attempted suicide in almost identical circumstances, his writings provide an early view of suicidal behavior among Puerto Ricans in the South Bronx during the late-1950s. In the intervening time, very little has appeared further documenting and eluci…
Childrearing, social stress, and child abuse
Child abuse in our multicultural society is a national emergency. As a nation, our approach to managing this societal crisis has been one of indifference to cultural variations among families and children, under the prevailing belief that cultural diversity does not play a part when serving a single society. Experience, however, shows that consideration of ethnocultural factors is warranted if we are to effectively treat and prevent child maltrea…
Acculturation and Teaching Behaviors of Dominican and Puerto Rican Mothers
The relationship between acculturation and maternal teaching behaviors was studied by observing 101 low-income Puerto Rican and Dominican mothers in a teaching task with their preschool children and rating six teaching behaviors frequently used by parents. Puerto Rican mothers tended to be more acculturated than Dominican mothers. Although the two groups tended to prefer teaching behaviors that involved giving directives, visual cues, and modelin…
Mercury use in espiritismo
Mercury use in espiritismo: a survey of botanicas. L H Zayas, and P O OzuahCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.1.111 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Alcohol and Drug Use, and Depression Among Hispanic Men in Early Adulthood
Community research and clinical practice have shown that alcohol and drug use and depression are interrelated. Among Hispanics, acculturation may play a role in these relationships. To investigate these relationships as well as alcohol‐related problems, we interviewed 288 Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Colombian men in early adulthood. No significant differences emerged in the proportions of abstainers across the three groups. Colombians drank sign…
Understanding Suicide Attempts by Adolescent Hispanic Females
This article presents integrative model to aid clinicians in understanding suicide attempts by adolescent Hispanic females. On the basis of knowledge accumulated through clinical and research experience, the model describes a convergence of sociocultural, familial, developmental, and psychological factors that include considerations of family and parental functioning; adolescent female development; and the relationships of fathers, mothers, and d…
Depression, Acculturation, and Motivations for Alcohol Use among Young Colombian, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Men
Increasing numbers of young Hispanic men are being treated for alcohol abuse and its consequences. To provide culturally competent services, there must be an understanding of subcultural differences in the antecedents of alcohol abuse and drinking problems. The present study examined the impact of depression, acculturation, and motivations as antecedents for drinking and drinking-related problems among 288 Colombian, Dominican, and Puerto Rican m…
Conducting Research in Culturally Diverse Inner-City Neighborhoods
Social, behavioral, and health research among disenfranchised groups in inner cities poses problems in collecting data. It is a challenge to achieve data of sufficient quantity and quality necessary to be scientifically usable. This article describes the experiences of a research team during two phases of data collection in a mental health intervention study in New York’s South Bronx. Challenges in addressing human subject concerns, the formation…
Cultural and Linguistic Considerations in Psychodiagnosis with Hispanics
It is estimated that in the next century nearly half of the clientele seeking mental health services will be members of ethnic minority groups. Hispanics are the most rapidly growing population in the United States, and epidemiological evidence suggests that they present higher levels of psychiatric symptomatology and prevalence rates of disorder compared with other ethnic groups. Despite the unprecedented recognition of cultural considerations f…
Research ethics for mental health science involving ethnic minority children and youths
In response to U.S. Public Health Service projects promoting attention to disparities in the outcomes of mental health treatments, in July 2001, the American Psychological Association, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education convened a group of national leaders in bioethics, multicultural research, and ethnic minority mental health to produce a living document to guide ethical decision makin…
Depression and negative life events among pregnant african-american and hispanic women
Reducing Depression in Pregnancy
Research indicates that high levels of stress, low social support networks, and depression during pregnancy have a powerful negative effect on maternal functioning and infant developmental outcomes. Low-income, inner-city women from ethnic minority groups, whose levels of depression have been documented as higher than their white counterparts, are at increased risk, as are their infants. This article reviews the relevant research literature and p…
What Do I Do Now?”
Recent advances made by medicine and psychiatry in the development of practice guidelines and evidence-based interventions are spreading to social work and other helping professions. As the movement toward evidence-based practice grows, more demands for the use of tested interventions will be placed on practitioners. In this paper, we argue that social work practice education must change to respond to this demand. Specifically, evidence-based int…
Prenatal and Postpartum Depression among Low-Income Dominican and Puerto Rican Women
This longitudinal study examined depression symptoms among pregnant, low-income, urban Latinas, primarily Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, receiving obstetrical services in community health centers. In all, 106 women were interviewed in late pregnancy, 47 were interviewed again 2 to 3 weeks postpartum, and 42 three months postpartum. Elevated levels of depressive symptoms were evident in 53% of the original sample. Across time, depressive symptoms d…
Clinician-Patient Ethnicity in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Language and ethnicity are parts of the interpersonal process that converge during psychiatric diagnosis, affecting diagnostic accuracy and concordance among clinicians. In this feasibility study, the authors videotaped two Hispanic psychiatrists conducting typical diagnostic interviews with first-time Hispanic patients (N = 10) in a community mental health clinic. Then, two non-Hispanic psychiatrists viewed the videotapes with translator assista…
Capacity-to-Consent in Psychiatric Research
Objective: Assuring research participants’capacity to provide informed consent has become increasingly important in health and mental health research, and each study faces unique capacity-assessment challenges, possibly requiring its own screening tool. This article describes the development and preliminary testing of a capacity-to-consent tool constructed for a study of psychiatric diagnosing in a community clinic. Method: A 10-item screening de…
Why Do So Many Latina Teens Attempt Suicide? A Conceptual Model for Research
Rates of suicide attempts among adolescent Latinas have been reported to be higher than for their non-Hispanic counterparts. Yet researchers know very little about the attempts, their antecedents, and why the girls attempt suicide. Latina girls have been included in research on suicidal adolescents and typically show higher rates of attempts relative to similar psychopathology when compared with other young women. A few small studies have focused…
Latino Adults’ Access to Mental Health Care
Mother-Infant Interaction, Life Events and Prenatal and Postpartum Depressive Symptoms Among Urban Minority Women in Primary Care
Results of an Intervention to Reduce Perinatal Depression Among Low-Income Minority Women in Community Primary Care
With little past research on interventions to reduce perinatal depression among minority women, we tested a multicomponent psychosocial intervention that spanned the puerperium. We recruited 187 low-income African American and Hispanic women from three innercity community health centers. Women with depressive symptoms were randomly assigned to a multicomponent psychosocial intervention or to the usual health center social services. The two interv…
It’s Like Being in a Labyrinth
Evaluating an Abbreviated Version of the Hispanic Stress Inventory for Immigrants
This study evaluates an abbreviated version of the Hispanic Stress Inventory-Immigrant version (HSI-I) with a nonclinical sample of 143 adult Hispanic immigrants residing in a large midwestern city. The HSI-I consists of 73 items and 5 distinct subscales that assess psychosocial experiences on five dimensions, namely, occupational/economic, parental, marital, immigration, and familial/cultural. Five items with the greatest loading in each of the …
Latino immigrants' intentions to seek depression care
This study examined the role that illness perceptions, attitudes toward depression treatments, and subjective norms played in Latino immigrants' intentions to seek depression care. Ninety-five Latino immigrant patients were presented a vignette depicting an individual with major depression and interviewed about their intentions to seek care if confronted with a similar situation. Patients' preferences were to rely on informal sources of care firs…
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