journal
Journals American Indian and Alaska Nat...

American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research : the Journal of the National Center

https://read.qxmd.com/read/37523642/-i-think-western-healthcare-fails-them-qualitative-perspectives-of-state-recognized-women-tribal-members-on-elders-healthcare-access-experiences
#1
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jessica L Liddell, Amy L Stiffarm
Elder tribal members are important cultural and spiritual leaders and experts among many American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) cultures. AI/AN Elders play a key role in the maintenance and transmission of traditional cultural knowledge and practices and are highly valued members of AI/AN communities. AI/AN populations face disparities in healthcare outcomes, and the healthcare needs of AI/AN Elders remain an understudied area of research, particularly among tribes in the South and for tribes who do not have federal recognition...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37523641/complementary-alternative-medicine-a-culturally-centered-approach-to-managing-chronic-pain-from-one-american-indian-community
#2
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kellie Webb, Allyson Kelley, Diseree Restad, Kelley Milligan, Sadie Posey, Andrea Engavo
This evaluation explored the benefits of Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) within a reservation-based, State-certified outpatient treatment provider. The three CAM strategies provided were massage, acupuncture, and chiropractic therapies. The evaluation team worked with a peer recovery support specialist and tribal evaluation intern to co-create a one-page, eight-question, fixed-response instrument based on previous work in the community. Surveys were collected by the peer support specialist post-session with individuals receiving CAM therapies...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37523640/recommendations-for-optimizing-xa%C3%AA-tus-first-face-for-mental-health-training-insights-from-key-informants
#3
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Heather M Gray, Mariana Beu Rae, Cassie Anderson, Sarahr E Nelson, Debi A LaPlante, Martina M Whelshula, Melinda Bowman
Native adolescents experiencing mental health challenges, including substance misuse, often prefer to seek support from their peers and other informal sources, which may be due to lack of access to, and cultural fit with, professional behavioral health services. xaʔtus (First Face) for Mental Health is a Tribal community-based intervention designed to strengthen networks of informal mental health support and open pathways to more formal support. We sought insights from key informants to optimize the planning, promotion, and delivery of First Face trainings to seven Tribal communities in the Northwest United States...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37523639/psychological-impacts-of-historic-loss-and-current-events-surrounding-american-indian-boarding-schools
#4
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kaitlyn Sebwenna-Painter, Amoneeta Beckstein, Sue Kraus
Historic loss and historic loss-associated symptoms were examined in a cross-section of 60 American Indian and Alaska Native students attending a Native American serving college that is also a former Indian boarding school. To measure awareness of current events regarding finding unmarked graves at boarding schools, authors developed and used the Truth and Reconciliation Scale. Levels of self-compassion were assessed in participants to determine if there was a correlation between negative feelings towards oneself and psychological risk factors brought forth as a result of how aware students were of current events surrounding former Indian boarding schools...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37027503/effects-of-a-decolonizing-training-on-mental-health-professionals-indigenous-knowledge-and-beliefs-and-ethnocultural-empathy
#5
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Melissa E Lewis, Laurelle L Myhra, Erica E Hartwell, Jamie Smith
Indigenous communities suffer from the highest rates of mental health disparities of any ethnic group in the United States, as well as experience significant amounts of historical and contemporary trauma including violence, racism, and childhood abuse. Unfortunately, the mental health workforce is unprepared to effectively work with this population due to the influence of stereotypes, bias, and lack of training. A 90-minute training for mental health agency employees using decolonizing methods was delivered to improve knowledge of and empathy for Indigenous patient populations (N = 166)...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37027502/trickster-discourse-and-american-indian-identity-in-counselor-education-a-critical-phenomenological-inquiry
#6
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stephenie N Wescoup, Bria G Stare
In this qualitative phenomenological study, authors explored an American Indian student's experiences of colonization within a master's counselor education program. Interviews were conducted with one participant that met criterion sampling. Findings outlined counselor education's assimilative capacity and Indigenous resistance to assimilation. Themes included Confronting the Threat and Being Too Indian. Authors discussed implications for counselor educators and multicultural education specifically.
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37027501/-when-you-hear-the-noise-you-know-it-s-love-family-support-in-american-indian-communities
#7
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emily Hicks, Jessica L Liddell
Family relationships are an important source of emotional and instrumental support. In American Indian (AI) communities, families often provide support for women during childbirth and childrearing. The present study sought to gain insight into the influence of family during the pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing experiences of AI women from a Gulf Coast tribe. A qualitative descriptive research design was used, and 31 interviews were conducted with women from the tribe. The average age of participants was 51...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37027500/-if-you-re-down-you-know-get-up-be-proud-of-yourself-go-forward-exploring-urban-southwest-american-indian-individual-resilience
#8
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Angela A A Willeto, Priscilla R Sanderson, Steven D Barger, Nicolette I Teufel-Shone
The diverse American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population suffers health inequities perpetuated by colonialism and post-colonialism. The urban AI/AN population is steadily increasing in part because of federal policies relocating AI/AN away from tribal lands. However, studies of AI/AN urban communities are rare, and efforts to understand and ameliorate health inequities in AI/AN communities typically emphasize deficits rather than capacities. Resilience is an important resource in this context but mainstream, rather than community-derived definitions of resilience, predominate...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37027499/prevalence-of-mental-health-disorders-and-treatment-utilization-among-urban-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-american-indians-and-alaska-natives
#9
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ethel Nicdao, David Huh, Myra Parker, Bonnie M Duran, Jane M Simoni, Cam C Solomon, Karina L Walters
We examined prevalence of mental health treatment utilization among 447 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and Two-Spirit (LGBTT-S) American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults and the association of mental health treatment utilization with socio-demographic factors, social support, and mental health diagnoses. We derived data from the HONOR Project, a multi-site cross-sectional survey of Native LGBTT-S adults from seven U.S. metropolitan cities. Rates of lifetime mental health treatment utilization were higher for women (87%), those who were college educated (84%), and homeowners (92%)...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37027498/primary-psychiatric-diagnoses-commercialized-tobacco-use-and-homelessness-comparisons-between-urban-american-indian-alaska-native-and-non-american-indian-alaska-native-adult-clinical-samples
#10
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniel Dickerson, Melanie Cain, Andrea Garcia
Although over 70% of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) reside in urban areas, our knowledge of urban AI/AN adults receiving mental health treatment is limited. This study compares primary psychiatric diagnoses, commercialized tobacco use, and homelessness between AI/AN and non-AI/AN adults receiving services in an urban public mental health agency serving primarily AI/AN people in southern California. Depressive disorders were the most common psychiatric diagnoses for both groups. However, AI/AN adult clients demonstrated significantly less anxiety disorders and significantly more homelessness...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37027497/adverse-childhood-experiences-and-health-related-quality-of-life-in-adulthood-in-american-indians-and-alaska-natives
#11
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrei Stefanescu, Amy Hilliker
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can result in trauma that persists into adulthood. The goal of this study was to estimate the associations of ACEs with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) metrics in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults in the United States using data from the 2015-2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Adults (n = 1,389) were asked about current health and ACEs during childhood. ACE score was defined as the total number of ACEs reported. HRQOL outcomes included fair or poor general health, poor general health, poor physical health, poor mental health, and poor physical or mental health...
2023: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36178751/an-updated-systematic-review-of-risk-and-protective-factors-related-to-the-resilience-and-well-being-of-indigenous-youth-in-the-united-states-and-canada
#12
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christine R Hodgson, Rhea N DeCoteau, Joshuaa D Allison-Burbank, Timian M Godfrey
Indigenous youth in North America experience mental health inequities compared to White peers, including a higher prevalence of depression, anxiety, suicide, and substance use. This systematic review of culturally specific risk and protective factors related to resilience and mental health in Indigenous youth aimed to synthesize the recent evidence and update a systematic review of evidence prior to 2013 (Burnette and Figley, 2016). Following PRISMA guidelines, seven academic databases were searched for peer-reviewed qualitative and quantitative resilience research with Indigenous youth (age 19 and under) in the United States and Canada published from 2014 to 2021...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36178750/evaluating-the-impact-of-a-tribal-naloxone-program-through-pre-and-post-surveys-from-first-responders
#13
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Samantha McGee, Morgan Greutman, Grace Cua, Barbara Plested
The Choctaw Nation Health Care Center established a first responder naloxone program in 2015. Limited data is available on community naloxone programs specific to tribal communities and the opinions of first responders who may utilize naloxone in the field. The purpose of this article is to highlight the model of a tribal first responder naloxone program in Talihina, Oklahoma and present analysis of the impact of program trainings on first responders' understanding and willingness to administer intranasal naloxone through pre- and post-surveys (n = 758) collected from May 2018 to November 2019...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36178749/diet-quality-and-depression-in-a-cohort-of-american-indians-the-strong-heart-family-study
#14
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leah R Neff Warner, Alyson J Littman, Marcia O'Leary, Michelle Sarche, Lonnie A Nelson, Jacqueline S Gray, Amanda M Fretts
Diet quality has been shown to be inversely associated with depression, but this has not been studied in American Indians (AIs). We examined the prospective association of diet quality and probable depression in a family-based cohort of rural AIs. Using data from the Strong Heart Family Study, we included 1,100 AIs ≥14 years old who were free of probable depression at baseline. We defined probable depression as the presence of moderate or severe depressive symptoms on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale or current use of antidepressant medications...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36178748/retention-in-a-6-month-smoking-cessation-study-among-alaska-native-and-american-indian-people
#15
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dawson E Mills, Krista R Schaefer, Julie A Beans, Michael R Todd, Renee F Robinson, Kenneth E Thummel, Denise A Dillard, Jaedon P Avey
Participant retention in longitudinal health research is necessary for generalizable results. Understanding factors that correlate with increased retention could improve retention in future studies. Here, we describe how participant and study process measures are associated with retention in a longitudinal tobacco cessation research study performed in Anchorage, Alaska. Specifically, we conducted a secondary analysis exploring retention among 151 Alaska Native and American Indian (ANAI) people and described our study processes using study retention categories from a recent meta-analysis...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36178747/understanding-historical-trauma-among-urban-indigenous-adults-at-risk-for-diabetes
#16
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa, Luis C Garcia, Jan J Vasquez, Lan Xiao, Randall S Stafford, Lisa Day Krenzel, Alberto Ojeda, Lisa G Rosas
Historical trauma has been posited as a key framework for conceptualizing and addressing health equity in Indigenous populations. Using a community-based participatory approach, this study aimed to examine historical trauma and key psycho-social correlates among urban Indigenous adults at risk for diabetes to inform diabetes and other chronic disease prevention strategies. Indigenous adult participants (n=207) were recruited from an urban area in California and were asked to identify whether their Indigenous heritage was from a group in the United States, Canada, or Latin America...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36178746/the-interplay-between-group-identity-suicidality-and-bullying-in-midwestern-middle-school-youth-18-42
#17
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah J Atunah-Jay, Susanna N Basappa, Kristin Fischer, Monica Taylor-Desir, Sean M Phelan
Bullying peaks in middle school and is a risk factor for negative mental health outcomes, including suicidality. Suicide rates are higher in nonmetropolitan/rural areas and for American Indian/Alaska Natives compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Stigma-related bullying, a type of interpersonal discrimination, is increasingly considered an important driver of peer victimization. This study centers on the group identity characteristics of race/ethnicity, weight status, and sex to explore how school-based and electronic-bullying victimization mediate suicidality amongst a cohort of middle school students in North Dakota...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36178745/centering-native-youths-needs-and-priorities-findings-from-the-2020-native-youth-health-tech-survey
#18
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nicole D Reed, Roger Peterson, Thomas Ghost Dog, Carol E Kaufman, Allyson Kelley, Stephanie Craig Rushing
Health advocates are increasingly using social media and mobile technology to reach American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth to address important health topics and enhance protective factors. Public health experts did not know to what extent AI/AN youth used these tools to access health resources during the pandemic. The Native Youth Health Tech Survey was administered online from October to November 2020 with 349 AI/AN youth 15 to 24 years old. Survey results indicated frequent technology use-68.7% sent 1-50 text messages per day, and 65...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35881987/between-two-worlds-impacts-of-covid-19-on-the-ai-an-health-research-workforce
#19
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amanda M Hunter, Jennifer Richards, Alisse Ali-Joseph, Carolyn Camplain
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating global and national impacts including major loss of life, economic downturns, and ongoing impairments to mental and physical health. Conducting health research has remained a priority and has helped mitigate some of the COVID-19 devastation; however, challenges to research have arisen due to COVID-19 prevention strategies and changing community priorities for research. The purpose of this article is to focus on a critical piece of the health research process with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities and the AI/AN health research workforce...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35881986/lessons-on-resilient-research-adapting-the-tribal-turning-point-study-to-covid-19
#20
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Rachel I Steinberg, Joel A Begay, Paula M Begay, Deidra L Goldtooth, Shawna T M Nelson, Debra A Yazzie, Alan M Delamater, Christine W Hockett, Phoutdavone Phimphasone-Brady, Jeffrey C Powell, Madhumita Sinha, Dana Dabelea, Katherine A Sauder
Tribal Turning Point (TTP) is a community-based randomized controlled trial of a lifestyle intervention to reduce risk factors for type 2 diabetes in Native youth. TTP began in 2018 and was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In this paper we aimed to understand 1) how the pandemic impacted TTP's operations, and how the TTP team successfully adapted to these impacts; 2) how the effects of COVID-19 and our adaptations to them were similar or different across TTP's research sites; and 3) lessons learned from this experience that may help other Native health research teams be resilient in this and future crises...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center
journal
journal
37165
1
2
Fetch more papers »
Fetching more papers... Fetching...
Remove bar
Read by QxMD icon Read
×

Save your favorite articles in one place with a free QxMD account.

×

Search Tips

Use Boolean operators: AND/OR

diabetic AND foot
diabetes OR diabetic

Exclude a word using the 'minus' sign

Virchow -triad

Use Parentheses

water AND (cup OR glass)

Add an asterisk (*) at end of a word to include word stems

Neuro* will search for Neurology, Neuroscientist, Neurological, and so on

Use quotes to search for an exact phrase

"primary prevention of cancer"
(heart or cardiac or cardio*) AND arrest -"American Heart Association"

We want to hear from doctors like you!

Take a second to answer a survey question.