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African American Women and Depression in
Primary Care
Dr.
Marlene Mackey, PI
With this study,
the research team seeks to clarify whether and to what extent
African American women do, in fact, have experiences of
depression that are specific to the cultural context of their
every-day lives. Furthermore, because it questions whether
commonly used depression screening tools are culturally
sensitive enough to be valid and reliable measures of
depression in African American women, the research team also
seeks to gain a better understanding of African American
women’s “idioms of distress,” the culturally specific
repertoire of language statements used by African American
women to express and describe depressive symptomatology. To
that end, the proposed study has two specific aims, namely to
1) Identify
African American women’s descriptions and interpretations of
depression; 2) Describe health professionals’ experiences with
clinical depression interviews and with commonly used
depression screening tools with African American women.
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