A Differential Analysis of Depressed Mood Symptomology among Welfare-reliant African American and Latinx Women Heads of Household

Bowie, Stan L.; Banks, Sevaughn; Dopwell, Donna M.; Martin, Kelly B.

doi:10.1080/10875549.2021.1929659

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“…This is surprising and contradicts other findings for women in farmworker families [ 21 ]. It is also at odds with other research examining the association of financial status in other analyses of low-income populations in the USA [ 24 , 25 , 39 , 40 ] and elsewhere [ 41 ]. This may be a result of homogeneity across the participants due to the inclusion criteria of having a total household income below 200% of the federal poverty level.…”

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Depressive Symptoms of Latinx Women in Rural Farmworker and Urban Non-Farmworker Families in North Carolina

Arcury

Smith

Talton

et al. 2021

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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Background Mental health among low-income Latinx women in the United States (US), including those in farmworker families, is a health equity concern. This analysis (1) describes the depressive symptoms among Latinx women in rural farmworker families and urban non-farmworker families and (2) delineates immigration and acculturation, family composition and disruption, and financial characteristics associated with depressive symptoms experienced by these women. Methods Data are from a 2019–2020 cross-sectional survey of 66 rural farmworker and 52 urban non-farmworker women with a child participating in a study of pesticide exposure and neurocognitive development. Depressive symptoms were measured with the CES-D Short Form. Results The median (25th–75th percentiles) depressive symptom score reported was 2.0 (1.0–4.0), with 10 (8.5%) women having depressive symptom scores of 10 or greater. In bivariate analysis, among immigration and acculturation characteristics, women born in the USA and who spoke English fluently had lower depressive symptom scores. Among family composition and disruption characteristics, married women, and those with two adults in the household had lower depressive symptom scores. No financial status characteristic had statistically significant associations with depressive symptom score. In multivariate analysis, rural farmworker women had an expected median score one point lower than did urban non-farmworker women. Conclusion Addressing mental health among immigrant women, particularly those in farmworker families, is a complex undertaking. Rural versus urban locality provides a context for mental health. Determining the proximal determinants of locality requires further analysis.

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confidence: 68%

Depressive Symptoms of Latinx Women in Rural Farmworker and Urban Non-Farmworker Families in North Carolina

Arcury

Smith

Talton

et al. 2021

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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“…This group of women has displayed higher levels of vulnerability and stress, lower potential to solve their problems, and feeling more guilty, depressed, anxious, and worried than the women not being the heads of the households [ 7 – 9 ].…”

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The effect of educational intervention according to mindfulness on the psychological well-being of female heads of households

Mahmoudi,

Zarnaghash,

Shegefti

et al. 2024

BMC Women's Health

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Objective The low level of psychological well-being is one of the most common problems of the women who are the heads of households, and various educational programs have been conducted to improve the psychological well-being of such a group. The present study was conducted to outline the effectiveness of mindfulness-based educational intervention in the psychological well-being of women as the heads of households. Methods This research as a semi-experimental study was done by pretest–posttest design and control group. The study statistical population included all women as the heads of households in Shiraz, who had a file in the Shiraz based welfare office and at the same time their children were studying in schools covered by the 2nd district educational department of Shiraz in 2022–2023. Out of the female heads of the households in the statistical community, 30 women were selected as Purposive sampling and then randomly divided into two 15-individual groups, including experimental group (training on mindfulness-based therapy) and control group. The research tool included Ryff’s psychological well-being scale (Ryff, 1989). The experimental group was subjected to training on mindfulness-based therapy (Baer et al., 2006) during eight 90-min sessions. However, the control group did not receive any intervention. Result After running the intervention, a significant difference was seen between the components of autonomy, personal growth, purpose in life, self-acceptance, positive relationship with others, and psychological well-being after running the educational intervention between the experimental and control groups (P < 0.05), while no meaningful difference popped up between the experimental and control groups in terms of environmental mastery as one of the aspects measured in psychological well-being scale after the educational intervention (P = 0.602). Conclusion According to the results, it seems that psychologists can benefit from the method of training on mindfulness-based therapy in order to increase the psychological well-being of women as the heads of households.

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“…So that the examination of the physical and mental health status of these women shows, compared to other women, this group has less physical and mental health and they are facing all kinds of physical and mental diseases [6]. This group of women shows higher levels of vulnerability and stress, have less ability to solve their problems, and feel more guilty, depressed, anxious, and worried than women who are not heads of the household [7,8,9], In addition to the mentioned cases, the problems of this group of women lead to psychological problems and the subsequent decrease in psychological well-being [10,11]. psychological well-being; It is one of the important concepts of positive psychology and it is de ned as optimal performance and enables a person to adopt acceptable methods to solve problems in the face of various issues [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

The effect of educational intervention according to Mindfulness on the psychological well-being of female heads of households

Mahmoodi,

Zarnaghash,

Shegefti

et al. 2023

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Objective Low level of psychological well-being is one of the most common problems of female heads of households, and various educational programs have been conducted to improve the psychological well-being of this group, the present study was conducted to develop the effect of educational intervention according to Mindfulness on the psychological well-being of female heads of households. Methods The method of this research was semi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of the research included all female heads of households in Shiraz city who had a file in the Shiraz city welfare office and at the same time their children were studying in schools covered by the 2nd district education office of Shiraz city in 2022–2023. Among the female heads of households in the statistical community, 30 women were selected as available and then randomly divided into two groups of 15 including experimental group (training based on mindfulness) and a control group. The research tool included psychological well-being questionnaire (Ryff, 1989). The experimental group was subjected to training based on mindfulness-based therapy (Baer et al., 2006) during 8 90-minute sessions, But the members of the control group did not receive any intervention. Result After intervention, there was a significant difference between the components of individual independence, personal development, purposefulness in life, self-acceptance, positive relationship with others, and psychological well-being after the educational intervention between the experimental and control groups (P < 0.05), but no significant difference in Environmental Mastery after the educational intervention between the experimental and control groups (P = 0.602). Conclusion According to the results, it seems that psychologists can use the method of training based on mindfulness therapy in order to increase the psychological well-being of women heads of households.

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A Differential Analysis of Depressed Mood Symptomology among Welfare-reliant African American and Latinx Women Heads of Household

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

Depressive Symptoms of Latinx Women in Rural Farmworker and Urban Non-Farmworker Families in North Carolina

Depressive Symptoms of Latinx Women in Rural Farmworker and Urban Non-Farmworker Families in North Carolina

The effect of educational intervention according to mindfulness on the psychological well-being of female heads of households

The effect of educational intervention according to Mindfulness on the psychological well-being of female heads of households

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