Ansiedad y modos de aculturación en la población inmigrante

Revista: Apuntes de Psicología

Volumen: 26(3)

Páginas: 399-410

Año: 2008

Presenta: Mercedes Jiménez - Psicóloga UdeA

Fecha presentación: 30/07/09

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Modelo de integración de recursos para la atención de la salud mental en la población rural de México

Revista: Salud Pública de México

Volumen: 45(1)

Páginas: 19-26

Año: 2003

Presenta: Esteban Páez - Psicólogo UNAL

Feche presentación: 22/10/09

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Nurses are the key to improving mental health services in low- and middle-income countries

Revista: International Nursing Review

Volumen: 56
Páginas: 138–141

Año: 2009

Presenta: Aura Ruiz Granada - Magíster en Salud Pública Énfasis en Salud Mental - UdeA

Fecha presentación: 23/04/09

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Mental health and social capital in Cali, Colombia

Revista: Social Science & Medicine

Volumen: 58

Páginas: 2267–2277

Año: 2004

Presenta: Aura Ruiz Granada - Magíster en Salud Pública Énfasis en Salud Mental - UdeA

Fecha presentación: 24/09/09

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Confiabilidad, validez y punto de corte para escala de screening de suicidalidad en adolescentes

Revista: Revista Chilena de Neuropsiquiatria
Volumen: 47(1)
Páginas: 16-23
Año: 2009
Presenta: Alvaro Olaya - Magíster en Salud Pública UdeA

Fecha presentación: 10/09/09
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Grupo de Trabajo de la OMS sobre “evaluación en salud mental": Refelxiones tras una experiencia de tres años

Revista: The European Journal of Psichiatry
Volumen: 16(4)
Páginas: 228-235
Año: 2002
Presenta: Alvaro Olaya - Magíster en Salud Pública UdeA
Fecha presentación: 07/05/09
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Salud mental y capital social en Cali Colombia

Trudy Harphama
Emma Grant
Carlos Rodriguez

Revista Social Science & Medicine
Volumen 58
Año 2004
Págs 2267–2277

Presenta Aura Ruiz - Magíster en Salud Pública - U de A

Mental ill health forms an increasingly significant part of the burden of disease in developing countries. The growing interest in social risk factors for mental health coincides with the development of social capital research which may further inform the social model of mental health. The objective of the study reported here was to discover if there is an independent association between social capital and mental health when taking into account an array of demographic and violence variables.

A total of 1168 youth (15–25 years) in a low income community in Cali, Colombia were surveyed. Mental health was measured by a 20 item self-report questionnaire. The instrument used to measure social capital covered structural and cognitive social capital. Twenty-four per cent of the sample were probable cases of mental ill health. Females had a prevalence rate three times higher than males. Using a model which considered demographic and social capital measures as potential risk factors for mental ill health, the significant risk factors emerged as being female, having limited schooling, working in the informal sector, being a migrant, and having low trust in people. The ‘classic’ poverty type variables (poor education and employment) were more important than social capital, as was the commonly dominant risk factor for mental ill health being a woman. When violence factors were added to the model, the ‘trust’ factor fell out and the most important risk factors became (in descending order of importance): being female; no schooling/incomplete primary; and being a victim of violence. The dominance of poverty related factors, as opposed to social capital, prompts renewed attention to the explanatory mechanisms that link income inequality and poor mental health.

Keywords: Mental health; Social capital; Youth; Colombia; Violence