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Creating Opportunities For Personal Empowerment For Adolescent Students In A Rural High School, Sharon A. Edwards
Creating Opportunities For Personal Empowerment For Adolescent Students In A Rural High School, Sharon A. Edwards
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
BACKGROUND: With the incidence of 3% of children and 6% of adolescents diagnosed with depression, treatment appropriate for this population is needed. Provision of mental health care is limited due to barriers of access such as transportation, parental consent, and availability of services in the adolescent’s environment such as the school setting. OBJECTIVES: To decrease the depressive symptoms and increase the self-confidence perceptions of adolescents in a high school setting utilizing a cognitive-behavioral skills enhancing, seven-session intervention called COPE (Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment).
STUDY DESIGN: The project was an evidence-based nurse practitioner project utilizing pre- and …
Utilization Of Cope In The College Population, Rachael Hovermale
Utilization Of Cope In The College Population, Rachael Hovermale
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Background: College is a major transition in the lives of many young adults. As early as 1997, Sax reported that stress and depression were on the rise among college students and that 9.7% of college freshmen experienced depressive symptoms. Mental health treatments are often geared to children or older adults.
Objective: The objectives of this project were to (a) assess levels of anxiety and depression in identified at risk college students; (b) implement a new cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based intervention; and (c) evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention on students’ levels of anxiety and depression and satisfaction with the intervention. …