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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 …