When men are depressed they may experience symptoms that different than what is included in the current diagnostic criteria.To explore whether sex disparities depression rates disappear when alternative considered place of, or addition to, more conventional symptoms. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, AND MAIN OUTCOMES MEASURES: Using data from National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a nationally represented mental health survey, we evaluated differences symptom endorsement 2 new scales We...

Abstract Although psychology has an ample vocabulary for describing individual pathologies, the development of theory and concepts understanding societal pathology remains in its infancy. Because community views human behavior context, it is essential that interventions not be limited to stress management, personal coping, similar programming. Interventions should leave social injustice undiscussed unchallenged. In this spirit we present a oppression sociopolitical informs intervention with...

Data suggest that more men than women are dying of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide, but it is unclear why. A biopsychosocial approach critical for understanding the disproportionate death rate among men. Biological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors may put at risk death. We propose a stepwise to clinical, public health, policy interventions reduce COVID-19-associated morbidity mortality also review what health professionals makers can do, doing, address unique needs

Despite a strong commitment to promoting social change and liberation, there are few community psychology models for creating systems address oppression. Given how embedded racism is in institutions such as healthcare, significant shift the system's policies, practices, procedures required institutional create organizational change. This paper describes systemic intervention racial inequities healthcare quality called dismantling racism. The approach assumes disparities result of...

Men's lives and health are rooted in opportunity structures that shaped by race, ethnicity other characteristics have important social, political, economic cultural meaning. Within men's health, there is a need to consider how structural factors socially-defined affect the relationship between sex, gender health. The goal of an intersectional approach simultaneously examine social effects several key aspects identity context ways create new understanding these more accurate reflection lived...

Despite the potential health consequences, African American men tend to treat their roles as providers, fathers, spouses, and community members more important than engaging in behaviors such physical activity. We conducted 14 exploratory focus groups with 105 urban, middle-aged from Midwest examine factors that influence behaviors. Thematic content analysis revealed three interrelated barriers activity: (a) work, family, commitments priorities limited time motivation for activity; (b)...

Stress is a key factor that helps explain racial and gender differences in health, but few studies have examined gendered stressors affect men. This study uses an intersectional approach to examine the sources of stress African American men’s lives from perspectives men important women their lives. Phenomenological analysis was used data 18 exploratory focus groups with 150 men, ages 30 years older, eight 77 women. The two primary identified were seeking fulfill socially culturally roles...

Background/Context It is well documented that Black doctoral students in engineering and computing fields experience more stress strain during training than their White Asian peers. However, few studies have examined how postdoctoral researchers these challenges stressors or focused on the psychological effects, behavioral responses, health costs for students. We interviewed 48 PhD departments to find out they describe, make sense of, cope with strains programs. Study participants (29 men 19...

Background Despite the promise of implementation science (IS) to reduce health inequities, critical gaps and opportunities remain in field promote equity. Prioritizing racial equity antiracism approaches is these efforts, so that IS does not inadvertently exacerbate disparities based on selection frameworks, methods, interventions, strategies do reflect consideration structural racism its impacts. Methods Grounded extant research antiracism, we discuss importance advancing understanding how...

Implementation science focuses on enhancing the widespread uptake of evidence-based interventions into routine practice to improve population health. However, optimizing implementation promote health equity in domestic and global resource-limited settings requires considering historical sociopolitical processes (e.g., colonization, structural racism) centering local sociocultural indigenous cultures values. This review weaves together principles decolonization antiracism inform critical...

Aggregating and interpreting available qualitative data is a necessary next step to understanding the mental health needs experiences of Black men. This study describes findings from meta-synthesis research on men’s well-being using Paterson, Thorne, Canam, Jillings’s meta-study approach. Though previous studies have reported various forms racism as salient concerns for well-being, this revealed seven themes that present an initial toward advancing knowledge pertaining how men perceive...

There have been few empirical studies of ethnic differences in health within the American Black population. Logistic regressions were used to examine relationships among ethnicity, nativity, depressive symptoms, and physical two largest groups Blacks, African Americans Caribbean Blacks. The data from National Survey Life, a national household survey representative non-institutionalized U.S. We found that Americans, U.S.-born Caribbean-born Blacks had significantly different self-ratings...