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- Title
Getting a Grip on My Depression : How Latina Adolescents Experience, Self-Manage, and Seek Treatment for Depressive Symptoms.
- Authors
Stafford, Allison McCord; Aalsma, Matthew C.; Bigatti, Silvia; Oruche, Ukamaka; Draucker, Claire Burke
- Abstract
Latina (female) adolescents are more likely to experience depressive symptoms and less likely to receive mental health services than their non-Latina White peers. We aimed to develop a framework that explains how Latina adolescents experience, self-manage, and seek treatment for depressive symptoms. Latina young women (n = 25, M age = 16.8 years) who experienced depressive symptoms during adolescence were recruited from clinical and community settings and interviewed about experiences with depressive symptoms. The framework was developed using constructivist grounded theory methods. Participants experienced a psychosocial problem that we labeled being overburdened and becoming depressed. They responded to this problem through a five-phase psychosocial process that we labeled Getting a Grip on My Depression. Family members, peer groups, and mainstream authorities were influential in how participants experienced these phases. Future research should further develop this framework in diverse samples of Latino/a youth. Clinicians can use this framework in discussions with Latina adolescents about depressive symptoms.
- Subjects
MIDWEST (U.S.); PREVENTION of mental depression; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); COMMUNITY health services; COMPARATIVE studies; CONCEPTUAL structures; MENTAL depression; GROUNDED theory; HEALTH attitudes; HELP-seeking behavior; PSYCHOLOGY of Hispanic Americans; INTERPERSONAL relations; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; METROPOLITAN areas; PRIMARY health care; RESEARCH funding; SELF-management (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY of the sick; WOMEN; AFFINITY groups; JUDGMENT sampling; SOCIAL constructionism; PEERS; SOCIAL support; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 2019, Vol 29, Issue 12, p1725
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1049732319831043