社会支持和社区融入保护移民免受灾后抑郁症的影响:越南裔美国人的案例研究
NhuNgoc K Pham1, Mai Do2, Jannette Diep3
1Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Frontiers in psychiatry
|September 18, 2023
概括
在"哈维"风之后,社会支持显著减少了越南裔美国人的抑郁症状. 在灾难恢复工作中,优先考虑社会支持资源对于心理健康至关重要.
科学领域:
- 灾难心理健康 灾难心理健康
- 易受伤害的人口群体
- 自然灾害对心理的影响.
背景情况:
- 移民人口往往会面临与灾害相关的健康问题和恢复挑战的更高脆弱性.
- 关于风哈维对德克萨斯州休斯顿越南裔美国人社区的具体影响的研究有限.
- 了解这些影响对于开发包容性灾害响应计划至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了记录越南裔美国人的心理经历和恢复挑战在"哈维"风发生一年后.
- 检查社会支持与该人口中抑郁症状的发展之间的关联.
- 确定可能减轻灾后不良心理健康结果的因素.
主要方法:
- 受到哈维风影响的休斯顿地区120名越南裔美国人参与了这项研究.
- 线性回归建模用于分析社会支持和抑郁症状之间的关系.
- 用路易斯维尔社会支持尺度衡量社会支持,评估社会嵌入和感知到的支持.
- 评估了抑郁症状的发展,使用18项测量情绪困扰的项目,包括绝望,悲伤和愤怒.
主要成果:
- 在"哈维"风之后,越南裔美国人中,高水平的社会支持与抑郁症状有负面关联.
- 即使控制了与风哈维有关的房屋损坏和伤害/疾病,这种关联仍然很重要.
- 社会支持和抑郁症状之间的负面关联在考虑暴风雨后自我评估的心理和身体健康后仍然存在.
结论:
- 社会支持是缓解越南裔美国人哈维风后抑郁症状的关键因素.
- 公共卫生从业人员和应急管理机构应优先考虑社会支持资源,以提高受灾社区的心理健康.
- 鉴于强风越来越普遍,专注于社会支持的包容性灾害计划对于越南裔美国人等弱势群体至关重要.
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