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Our Food Is Healthy Too!, Destiney Mcdaniel
Our Food Is Healthy Too!, Destiney Mcdaniel
Nutrition Masters Projects
The purpose of this project is to create a children’s book titled, Our Food is Healthy Too!, about healthy eating that includes cultural foods, specifically the southern African American and Mexican American cultures. I will use illustrations and characters that will appeal to the targeted audience. My targeted audience are elementary school-age children, particularly second and third-graders. The book will address the main food groups and the different cultural foods or meals that consist of those food groups. The book will educate children on having a healthy, balanced diet with the foods they typically eat.
Imaging, Cognitive, And Functional Correlates Of Vascular Depression In Older Black Adults, Hannah Bogoian
Imaging, Cognitive, And Functional Correlates Of Vascular Depression In Older Black Adults, Hannah Bogoian
Psychology Dissertations
Black older adults have a higher prevalence of vascular conditions (e.g., heart disease) and greater cerebrovascular disease burden compared to Whites. Decreased brain white matter integrity as a result of vascular burden is associated with a form of late-life depression, known as vascular depression (VaDep), which is marked by chronic vascular risk, executive dysfunction, poor treatment response, and high levels of functional disability. Older Black adults may be particularly vulnerable to developing VaDep; however, the literature examining VaDep in Black older adults is sparse. The present study used publicly available data from the Healthy Brain Project, a substudy of the …
Postpartum Social Support Experiences Of Black Mothers With Depression During Covid, Brooke Dipetrillo
Postpartum Social Support Experiences Of Black Mothers With Depression During Covid, Brooke Dipetrillo
Public Health Dissertations
INTRODUCTION: Social support is a protective factor against depression (Szkody et al., 2020). Current social support literature within the western epistemology of research failed to include the voices of Black mothers to provide a meaningful cultural context within which to view this protective factor (Spates, 2012). The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated adversities, including maternal depression, which is experienced disproportionately among Black mothers (Bailey & Moon, 2020; Farewell et al., 2020). Research within Black communities indicates the importance of social networks (e.g., extended kin) (Hunter et al., 2019). However, this literature does not focus on Black mothers living with depression …