Health Advocacy Project: Evaluating the Benefits of Service Learning to Nursing Students and Low Income Individuals Involved in a Community-Based Mental Health Promotion Project
| Autor: | Liudi Xia, Sandra Secord, Joan Samuels-Dennis, Rivie Seaberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Low income Social Work media_common.quotation_subject Schools Nursing education Service-learning Poison control Health Promotion Occupational safety and health Education Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Promotion (rank) Nursing Political science medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Poverty General Nursing media_common Community based 030505 public health Social work Education Nursing Baccalaureate Community Health Nursing Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health Community Mental Health Services Health advocacy Health promotion Female 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. 13:97-108 |
| ISSN: | 1548-923X 2194-5772 |
| Popis: | Poverty, along with other factors such as unemployment, work and life stressors, interpersonal violence, and lack of access to high quality health and/or social services all play a role in determining who develops a mental illness and for whom those symptoms persist or worsen. Senior nursing student preparing to enter the field and working in a service learning capacity may be able to influence early recovery and symptom abatement among those most vulnerable to mental illness. A consortium of community stakeholders and researchers collaboratively designed a 10-week mental health promotion project called the Health Advocacy Project (HAP). The project combines case management and system navigation support delivered by trained and highly supervised nursing students to individuals experiencing major depressive disorder (MDD) and/or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this article, we present the findings of a qualitative fidelity evaluation that examines the effectiveness of nursing students in delivering the health advocacy intervention at the level and with the intensity originally intended. The findings demonstrate how the services of senior nursing students may be optimized to benefit our healthcare system and populations most at risk for developing MDD and PTSD. |
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