Training community opinion leaders to raise awareness and promote early intervention for depressed latino adolescents

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 191-201

  Ford Paz, Rebecca E ^a,b   Kuebbeler, Andrea ^c   Contreras, Richard ^d   Garduño, Marco ^e   Sánchez, Bernadette ^f  

^a Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Alternatives Inc   (United States)

^d Healthcare Alternative Systems   (United States)

^e Instituto Health Career Sciences Academy   (United States)

^f DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Depression literacy; Depression prevention; Health disparities; Latino adolescents; Outreach; Promotores; Social network intervention; Suicide prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DEPRESSION; EARLY INTERVENTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PILOT STUDY; POVERTY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNIVERSITY; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DEPRESSION; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; UNIVERSITIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84942120397     PISSN: 15570541     EISSN: 1557055X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2015.0039     Document Type: Article

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