Mujeres Unidas: A Pilot Study to Educate Latina Women.

In the United States, it is estimated that 15% of Latinos will experience a depressive or anxiety disorder during their lifetime. Education, prevention programming, and health interventions around topics such as stress, nutrition, mental health, and health maintenance for Latino immigrants are lacking, inadequate, or nonexistent. This type of programming may be protective against depression and anxiety.

Community Health Workers as Mental Health Paraprofessionals: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Pilot Feasibility Study.

Background: Community health workers (CHWs) are effective in delivering behavioral activation (BA), especially in low-resource settings. In an area with a lack of Spanish-speaking mental health counselors, such as southwest Montana, CHWs can provide needed care.

Objective: The goal of this pilot study protocol is to test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a model of care that engages CHWs as providers of BA.

Barriers and Facilitators to Breast and Cervical Cancer Screenings for Hispanic Women in a Rural State.

Introduction: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Division of Cancer Prevention of Control administer the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP), designed to increase early detection of cancers among low-income uninsured and underinsured women. However, rates of cancer diagnosis and survivorship differ among women of different ethnicities. We investigated two questions: 1) what are the potential barriers and facilitators for women to complete recommended breast and cervical cancer screenings, and 2) are the barriers and facilitators different for Hispanic women when compared to non-Hispanic White women?

Methods: We used a community-based participatory research approach and mixed methods: qualitative interviews with women enrolled in the program and a systematic process improvement approach to identify root causes of completing or not completing screenings.

Bridging the Gap: Addressing Immigrant Health Through Community-initiated Screening Events.

Background: In areas of new-immigrant population growth, medical and social infrastructure may be lagging behind the needs of those who do not identify with the majority culture or language. Subsequently, information regarding this population's health status and access to care is limited. Montana's Hispanic population is one such group.

"Because We Are Afraid": voices of the undocumented in a new immigrant destination in the United States.

The purpose of this study is to explore immigrants' perceptions of their daily lives in a state with anti-immigrant policies in the United States. Using snowball sampling, researchers recruited a sample of 30 Latino immigrants in southwest Montana. The research team conducted semi-structured interviews in Spanish and analyzed the data using thematic analysis.

Using the social ecological model to identify challenges facing Latino immigrants.

Background: New Latino immigrant populations face challenges and barriers when arriving in new immigrant destinations.

Objective: To better understand the challenges faced by Latino immigrants in a new immigrant destination by using the Social Ecological Model.

Design: This study solicited the perceptions of key informants and Latino immigrant participants through qualitative data collection methods to understand how to address and decrease barriers to healthcare services and community resources.

Using the PDCA cycle to uncover sources of mental health disparities for Hispanics.

The Hispanic population is growing rapidly in U.S. rural states, yet limitations in Spanish-speaking behavioural health providers are a barrier to accessing care.

Rural Hispanic Perceptions of Mental Health: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: In 2020, 18.4% of Hispanics experienced mental illness, yet only about a third received treatment compared with nearly half of non-Hispanic Whites. In Montana, where only 11% of the mental health needs are currently met, service utilization is low.

Engaging Latinos in an Academic-Community Partnership in Montana through a Health Screening Event.

Background: Engaging minorities in research especially in Montana where Latinos make up a small percentage of the population can be a challenge. We describe an effort to recruit Latinos into a research study by hosting a health screening event.

Purpose: This event served as the first step in the creation of an academic-community partnership.

Implementation of a COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Clinic to College Students in Montana.

We describe a large-scale collaborative intervention of practice measures and COVID-19 vaccine administration to college students in the priority 1b group, which included Black or Indigenous persons and other persons of color. In February 2021, at this decentralized vaccine distribution site at Montana State University in Bozeman, we administered 806 first doses and 776 second doses by implementing an interprofessional effort with personnel from relevant university units, including facilities management, student health, communications, administration, and academic units (e.g.

Are Cal/OSHA Regulations Protecting Farmworkers in California From Heat-Related Illness?

Objective: Determine compliance with and effectiveness of California regulations in reducing farmworkers' heat-related illness (HRI) risk and identify main factors contributing to HRI.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study of Latino farmworkers, core body temperature (CBT), work rate, and environmental temperature (WBGT) were monitored over a work shift by individual ingestible thermistors, accelerometers, and weather stations, respectively. Multiple logistic modeling was used to identify risk factors for elevated CBT.

Exploring a rural Latino community's perception of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: The purpose of our study was to understand the perception of the Latino community in a rural state regarding COVID-19. Over one third of national COVID-19 cases are among Latinos, likely due to an increased prevalence of comorbid risk factors and social determinants of health that make following precautions difficult.

Design: Respondents were recruited using snowball sampling as part of a previous effort to establish an academic-community partnership with Latinos in the area.

Hydration Choices, Sugary Beverages, and Kidney Injury in Agricultural Workers in California.

Purpose: Agricultural workers working in high ambient temperatures are at risk for acute kidney injury. Despite recommendations to maintain hydration, workers likely do not drink enough to protect their renal function. Additionally, new research suggests that rehydration with sugary beverages adds additional risk to kidneys already stressed by high heat and workload.

The Expanding Burden of Acute Kidney Injury in California: Impact of the Epidemic of Diabetes on Kidney Injury Hospital Admissions.

Reducing the growing burden of acute kidney injury (AKI) is a real challenge. This article explores admissions and emergency visits of patients with AKI in California between 2005 and 2015. Data were drawn from California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) hospital dataset.

Acute kidney injury and workload in a sample of California agricultural workers.

Background: Kidney damage is associated with an increased workload in high ambient temperatures and may represent a pathway to chronic kidney disease of unknown origin in agricultural workers. We tested the associations of workload and heat with acute kidney dysfunction in California agricultural workers.

Methods: We recruited a convenience sample of 471 agricultural workers from 29 farms in California during two summer harvest seasons.

Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes among Agricultural Workers in California.

Latino agricultural workers in California are a vulnerable population at risk for many undiagnosed health concerns. Principal among them is diabetes, and the prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes is difficult to estimate. In a convenience sample of 579 agricultural workers recruited through the California Heat Illness Prevention Study (CHIPS), we found HbA1c levels consistent with diabetes in 54 participants, of whom 33 (61.

Migrant Workers and Their Occupational Health and Safety.

In 2015, approximately 244 million people were transnational migrants, approximately half of whom were workers, often engaged in jobs that are hazardous to their health. They work for less pay, for longer hours, and in worse conditions than do nonmigrants and are often subject to human rights violations, abuse, human trafficking, and violence. Worldwide, immigrant workers have higher rates of adverse occupational exposures and working conditions, which lead to poor health outcomes, workplace injuries, and occupational fatalities.

Occupational Exposures and Health Outcomes Among Immigrants in the USA.

Purpose Of Review: Immigrants experience higher rates of occupational injury and fatality than their native-born counterparts. This review summarizes the current data related to occupational/environmental exposures and explores potential reasons for the disparities.

Recent Findings: Immigrant workers are employed in sectors that expose them to dangerous working conditions.

Recruitment, Methods, and Descriptive Results of a Physiologic Assessment of Latino Farmworkers: The California Heat Illness Prevention Study.

Objective: The California heat illness prevention study (CHIPS) devised methodology and collected physiological data to assess heat related illness (HRI) risk in Latino farmworkers.

Methods: Bilingual researchers monitored HRI across a workshift, recording core temperature, work rate (metabolic equivalents [METs]), and heart rate at minute intervals. Hydration status was assessed by changes in weight and blood osmolality.

Heat strain, volume depletion and kidney function in California agricultural workers.

Background: Agricultural work can expose workers to increased risk of heat strain and volume depletion due to repeated exposures to high ambient temperatures, arduous physical exertion and limited rehydration. These risk factors may result in acute kidney injury (AKI).

Methods: We estimated AKI cumulative incidence in a convenience sample of 283 agricultural workers based on elevations of serum creatinine between preshift and postshift blood samples.

Assessing faculty attitudes after participation in an interprofessional teaching scholars programme.

Promoting interprofessional education (IPE) and practice is a priority in academic health centres; however, implementation of IPE can be challenging. Recognizing the need for faculty development in teaching, and specifically IPE, the University of California, Davis Schools of Health launched the Interprofessional Teaching Scholars Program (ITSP) in 2014. Two cohorts of 11 faculty scholars each completed the nine-month programme and participated in this longitudinal comparative study in which pre- and post-assessments using a validated survey instrument were administered to measure changes in faculty attitudes towards IPE and collaborative practice.

Influence of neighbourhood socioeconomic position on the transition to type II diabetes in older Mexican Americans: the Sacramento Area Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Objective: To examine the influence of neighbourhood socioeconomic position (NSEP) on development of diabetes over time.

Design: A longitudinal cohort study.

Setting: The data reported were from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging, a longitudinal study of the health of 1789 older Latinos.

Cumulative Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury in California's Agricultural Workers.

Objective: Chronic kidney disease in Central America suggests that agricultural work is potentially harmful to the kidneys. We investigated the cumulative incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) over one work shift among agricultural workers in California.

Methods: Serum creatinine was measured both before and after a work shift to estimate AKI.