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African American Women’S Experiences Coping With Stress Through Community-Based Services, Delisa V. Procks
African American Women’S Experiences Coping With Stress Through Community-Based Services, Delisa V. Procks
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Few studies have studied how community-based services (CBS) work to mitigate the strong Black woman image (SBWI) coping mechanism for Black women to improve their mental health. The purpose of this generic, qualitative study was to understand the experiences of 10 African American women, ages 18 and older, who identified with the SBWI and had received CBS to address their stress-related coping strategies. Transactional theory of coping with stress and the SBWI approach was used as the framework to help explain how stress in terms of the SBWI impacted the response of the African American women within their environment. Data …
African American Women’S Experiences Coping With Stress Through Community-Based Services, Delisa V. Procks
African American Women’S Experiences Coping With Stress Through Community-Based Services, Delisa V. Procks
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Few studies have studied how community-based services (CBS) work to mitigate the strong Black woman image (SBWI) coping mechanism for Black women to improve their mental health. The purpose of this generic, qualitative study was to understand the experiences of 10 African American women, ages 18 and older, who identified with the SBWI and had received CBS to address their stress-related coping strategies. Transactional theory of coping with stress and the SBWI approach was used as the framework to help explain how stress in terms of the SBWI impacted the response of the African American women within their environment. Data …
Disparities In The Qulaity Of Bariatric Care Among African American Women, Tracey S. White
Disparities In The Qulaity Of Bariatric Care Among African American Women, Tracey S. White
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Improving the quality of health care in the United States has been an ongoing challenge for decades. As health care providers seek to provide unsurpassed levels of health care, disparities continue to exist among races. Racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of health care persist that affect African American women disproportionally. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of African American women with regard to quality health care following bariatric surgery. Using a phenomenological approach, semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 African American women who had suboptimal weight loss outcomes following bariatric surgery. Data from …