BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Nursing and Health Sciences,Thesis/Dissertations DESCRIPTION:College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Yaa Brago  Title: An Educational Intervention to Reduce Mental Health Stigma and Pr omote Mental Health Access Behaviors Among Ghanaian Immigrants Date: Apri l 17th Time: 4:00 PMZOOM: for link Committee: Dr. David Asante Dr. Chri stine Bell Dr. Ilknur Yesilcinar Abstract: Mental health stigma and struc tural barriers significantly limit mental health service utilization among Ghanaian immigrants, a community that underutilizes mental health service s at rates far below the general U.S. population. This Doctor of Nursing P ractice (DNP) project evaluated the effectiveness of a culturally tailored , church-based educational intervention in reducing internalized mental he alth stigma and improving help-seeking attitudes among Ghanaian immigrants affiliated with a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church in Grand Prairie, Te xas. Using a pre-test/post-test design, 39 adult participants completed th e Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (ISMI-9) and the Mental Help -Seeking Attitudes Scale (MHSAS) before and immediately after a 20-minute educational session delivered by the student investigator. The interventio n was grounded in the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEB P) Model and Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). Results demonstrated a statist ically significant improvement in mental health help-seeking attitudes (Wi lcoxon signed-rank test: V = 90.50, z = −2.16, p = .031), with MHSAS mea n scores shifting from 5.99 (SD = 1.53) pre-intervention to 6.60 (SD = 0.9 7) post-intervention. No statistically significant change in internalized stigma was detected (ISMI-9: t(38) = −1.00, p = .322), consistent with l iterature indicating that stigma reduction requires more sustained, multi- session interventions. Findings support the integration of faith-embedded, culturally congruent psychoeducation into community mental health strateg ies and have implications for nursing practice, education, and policy. Fut ure research should incorporate larger samples, longitudinal designs, and multi-session formats to strengthen and sustain outcomes.Keywords: mental health stigma, Ghanaian immigrants, help-seeking attitudes, educational in tervention, faith-based intervention, culturally tailored, ISMI-9, MHSAS\n Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/college-of-nursing-and-healt h-sciences-dnp-defense---yaa-brago.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

College of Nursing and Health S ciences DNP Defense - Yaa Brago
 
Title: An Educational Interve ntion to Reduce Mental Health Stigma and Promote Mental Health Access Beha viors Among Ghanaian Immigrants
 
Date: April 17th 
Time: 4:00 PM
ZOOM: for link
 
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Mental health stigma and structural barri ers significantly limit mental health service utilization among Ghanaian i mmigrants\, a community that underutilizes mental health services at rates far below the general U.S. population. This Doctor of Nursing Practice (D NP) project evaluated the effectiveness of a culturally tailored\, church- based educational intervention in reducing internalized mental health stig ma and improving help-seeking attitudes among Ghanaian immigrants affiliat ed with a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church in Grand Prairie\, Texas. Usi ng a pre-test/post-test design\, 39 adult participants completed the Inter nalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (ISMI-9) and the Mental Help-Seekin g Attitudes Scale (MHSAS) before and immediately after a 20-minute educati onal session delivered by the student investigator. The intervention was g rounded in the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEBP) Mode l and Social Cognitive Theory (SCT).

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Results demonstrated a statis tically significant improvement in mental health help-seeking attitudes (W ilcoxon signed-rank test: V = 90.50\, z = −2.16\, p = .031)\, with MHSAS mean scores shifting from 5.99 (SD = 1.53) pre-intervention to 6.60 (SD = 0.97) post-intervention. No statistically significant change in internali zed stigma was detected (ISMI-9: t(38) = −1.00\, p = .322)\, consistent with literature indicating that stigma reduction requires more sustained\, multi-session interventions. Findings support the integration of faith-em bedded\, culturally congruent psychoeducation into community mental health strategies and have implications for nursing practice\, education\, and p olicy. Future research should incorporate larger samples\, longitudinal de signs\, and multi-session formats to strengthen and sustain outcomes.
Keywords: mental health stigma\, Ghanaian immigrants\, help-seeking attit udes\, educational intervention\, faith-based intervention\, culturally ta ilored\, ISMI-9\, MHSAS

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/college-of-nursing-and-health-scien ces-dnp-defense---yaa-brago.php

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