Establishing community partnerships to support late-life anxiety research: Lessons learned from the calmer life project

Jameson, John Paul; Shrestha, Srijana; Escamilla, Monica; Clark, Sharonda; Wilson, Nancy; Kunik, Mark E.; Zeno, Darrell; Harris, Toi Blakley; Peters, Alice; Varner, Ivory L; Scantlebury, Carolyn; Scott-Gurnell, Kathy; Stanley, Melinda A.

doi:10.1080/13607863.2012.660621

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“…Some broader features of society as a whole, such as economics, politics and culture, might also influence built and social environments in communities as potential determinants of health in later life. In the UK and the US, recent policies and campaigns for addressing neighborhood safety and isolation of older people with the regeneration of local infrastructure are expected to have substantial influence on community environments and cognitive function in later life [ 42 , 43 ]. Since cognitive decline is a chronic process, the long-term interaction between individual and community environment needs further consideration.…”

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The association between community environment and cognitive function: a systematic review

Prina

Brayne

2014

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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PurposesThe aim of this study is to review the published evidence on the association between community environment and cognitive function in older people, focusing on the findings and a critique of the existing studies.MethodsA literature search was conducted to identify studies linking the community environment and cognitive function in older people. The results and methodological factors, including the definition of community, individual level characteristics and the measurements of cognitive function and community environment were extracted from each study. The measurements of community environment were mainly categorized into two types: compositional, generated by aggregating individual and household data (community-level socioeconomic status, deprivation index) and contextual, targeting at the features of built or social environment in local areas (green space, street conditions, crime rate).ResultsFourteen of the fifteen studies used compositional measurements such as community-level socioeconomic status and deprivation index and significant associations were found in eleven studies. Some individual level factors (ethnicity, genotype and socioeconomic status) were found to modify the association between community environment and cognitive function. Few contextual measurements were included in the existing studies. A conceptual framework for the pathway from community environment to cognitive function of older people is provided in this review.ConclusionsTo disentangle the additional effect of place from individual risk factors and investigate the casual direction of community environment and cognition in later life, longitudinal studies with measurements targeting built and social environments of community and change of cognitive functions over time need to be included in future studies.

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The association between community environment and cognitive function: a systematic review

Prina

Brayne

2014

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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“…So, those who utilize their faith as a primary coping resource in the face of daily stresses may reap important health benefits along the way. In addition to spurring future research aimed at further elucidating these processes, this association holds promise for clinical and applied contexts, in which the faith of patients or clients often plays a key role in the promotion of mental health (Jameson et al, 2012) and physical health (Bopp, Baruth, Peterson, & Webb, 2013). By utilizing measures of daily religious experience to assess the dynamic ways in which faith-related variables help one to relieve stress at the daily level, and then tying these dynamic characteristics to health outcomes, we have contributed further to the present understanding of how faith influences not only psychological well-being but physical health and disease processes.…”

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Daily religious coping buffers the stress–affect relationship and benefits overall metabolic health in older adults.

Whitehead

Bergeman

2020

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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This study focuses on how daily religious coping mitigates daily stress, regulates emotional responses, and ultimately produces more optimal health outcomes. Participants were 267 community-dwelling older adults from the Later Life Cohort of the Notre Dame Study of Health & Well-being (mean age ϭ 72 years; 63% female). Daily diary data (56 days) were used to assess the effects of daily perceived stress, daily religious coping, and their interaction on daily negative affect. Multilevel modeling (MLM) results suggested that religious coping regulated the effects of stress on negative affect (␤ ϭ .02; p Ͻ .01). The intraindividual variability in these day-level effects represent specific dynamic aspects of the individual, referred to as dynamic characteristics. These person-level dynamic characteristics derived from the MLM were correlated with indicators of metabolic health and predicted healthier values. Most significant, the stress-buffering effects of religious coping predicted better metabolic health, as indicated by negative correlations with glucose tolerance (A1c; r ϭ Ϫ.32, p Ͻ .001) and the obesity composite variable (r ϭ Ϫ.23, p ϭ .01). Results demonstrate that the ability to use religious coping to regulate the effects of stress on negative affect may delay the onset of disorders associated with obesity and dysregulation in the metabolic system.

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“…13,15 However, the literature contains less on CBT skill-development in community settings or mental health promotion for healthy populations of color. Most closely related to the work described here, Mokrue and Acri 16 developed CBT skills with racial/ethnic minority college students; Mance et al 17 culturally adapted an evidence-based mental health intervention for African American adolescents; and Jameson et al 9 adapted prevention-centered CBT for older African Americans. The latter two groups of authors utilized participatory, culturally relevant approaches mental health promotion for ethnically and racially diverse groups and recommended increased use of such approaches to mental health promotion.…”

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“…The latter two groups of authors utilized participatory, culturally relevant approaches mental health promotion for ethnically and racially diverse groups and recommended increased use of such approaches to mental health promotion. 9,17 Aligning with those recommendations, the partnership described here was initiated by a statewide minority health agency to collaborate with two researchers when the statewide agency's community-based minority health affiliates expressed the need for mental health promotion based on their work with communities of color across Indiana. In this way, the impetus for the project was a grassroots effort that emerged from the ground up since the community-based minority health affiliates are small agencies located throughout Indiana with minimal resources that tend to operate with a low number of staff and volunteers who are a part of the community served by the agency.…”

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A Community-Led Partnership to Develop a Mental Health Promotion Curriculum with Minority Health Agencies

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Hancher-Rauch²,

Ohmit³

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Progress in Community Health Partnerships

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WORK-IN-PROGRESS & LESSONS LEARNEDsociopolitical rhetoric in the United States harms mental health and exacerbates disparities. 12 Turning more specifically mental health promotion efforts within the public health sector, the World Health Organization defined mental health promotion in 2002 as "any action taken to maximize mental health and well-being among populations and individuals." 2 This definition offered public health professionals language more familiar than the clinical language frequently used regarding treatment for mental illness. More recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended increasing integration of mental health promotion with chronic disease prevention, 3 and Kabau et al. 4 argued for the increased use of public health practices by psychology practitioners. When narrowing to mental health

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Establishing community partnerships to support late-life anxiety research: Lessons learned from the calmer life project

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The association between community environment and cognitive function: a systematic review

The association between community environment and cognitive function: a systematic review

Daily religious coping buffers the stress–affect relationship and benefits overall metabolic health in older adults.

A Community-Led Partnership to Develop a Mental Health Promotion Curriculum with Minority Health Agencies

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