Publications by authors named "M G Geronimo"
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- Many immigrant family carers, especially in Australia’s multicultural society, face significant health disadvantages and lower quality of life compared to non-immigrant carers.
- A study was conducted with 649 family carers to compare health profiles, revealing CALD carers are generally younger, more educated, but have lower weekly care hours than non-CALD carers.
- Results showed both groups had poor physical and mental health indicators, but non-CALD carers reported higher depressive symptoms, indicating a need for tailored support systems for diverse communities.
Introduction: Depression beliefs and practices among indigenous peoples are essential to creating responsive mental health services. The purpose of the study is to explore the cultural beliefs and practices on depression among the Ilocanos, Kankana-eys, and Maranaos indigenous peoples in the Philippines.
Method: The study employed a focused ethnography research design.
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- Annual lung cancer screening (LCS) is under-discussed by primary care providers, particularly with Black and other minoritized groups, highlighting a need for better knowledge and resources on related disparities.
- A study examined the effectiveness of combining a Lung Cancer Health Disparities online course with a standard LCS training course for primary care providers, showing both groups improved their knowledge post-training.
- Despite no significant difference in knowledge gain between the two training groups, a majority of providers (81%) expressed intentions to enhance their screening and preventive practices after completing the courses.
Introduction: Ethnicity influences dementia etiology, prognosis, and treatment, while culture shapes help-seeking and care. Despite increasing population diversity in high-income settlement countries, ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in dementia research. We investigated approaches to enhance the recruitment, and consistent collection and analysis of variables relevant to, ethnic minorities in dementia studies to make recommendations for consistent practice in dementia research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSignificance: Although it is a requirement that tobacco treatment is offered to cigarette smokers undergoing low-dose computed tomographic lung cancer screening (LCS), not all smokers engage in treatment. To understand the barriers to tobacco treatment in this setting, we evaluated predictors of attrition in a smoking cessation trial among individuals undergoing LCS.
Methods: Prior to LCS, 926 participants, 50-80 years old, completed the baseline (T0) phone assessment, including demographic, clinical, tobacco, and psychological characteristics.