Depression and Help-Seeking Among Native Hawaiian Women.

The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to gain insight about Native Hawaiian (NH) women's experiences with, and viewpoints of, depression and help-seeking behaviors (N = 30: 10 from the university and 20 from the community). More women reported depression in the interviews than through their Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) responses. Quantitative data revealed 57% of the women had ever received mental health help (80% of university vs.

Home telehealth: facilitators, barriers, and impact of nurse support among high-risk dialysis patients.

Objective: The value of home telehealth self-monitoring with nurse oversight has been demonstrated; however, there is a dearth of objective documentation of patients' experiences with such a model. We used a mixed methods approach to examine the value of home telehealth monitoring with remote care nurse (RCN) support from the perspective of participants in our study.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-three patients who used remote technology to self-monitor their health at home participated in a semistructured interview.

Effects of pain controllability and discrepancy in social support on depressed mood among patients with chronic pain.

Background: Preference of types of social support may vary across recipients, and social support that is less than the amount preferred may be associated with depressed mood.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the interaction effects between pain controllability and discrepancy in social support and the additive utility of discrepancy in social support over perceived social support in predicting depressed mood among patients with chronic pain.

Method: A total of 173 patients seeking treatment at two outpatient pain management clinics in Hawaii participated.

The effects of working alliance and client-clinician ethnic match on recovery status.

Sixty-seven clients with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) recruited from community mental health centers were interviewed to assess their subjective quality of life, self-efficacy, importance of ethnic matching and level of working alliance (WA) with their clinicians. Results revealed that clients in the ethnically matched group reported significantly higher WA compared to the non-matched group. Clients who reported a higher level of WA also reported better recovery status.