Daejun Park, Mingun Lee, Kara Osborne, Dane Minnick
{"title":"Stress and Depression in Ohio Social Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Buffering Role of Social Connectedness.","authors":"Daejun Park, Mingun Lee, Kara Osborne, Dane Minnick","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although social workers have an elevated risk of infection with COVID-19, no previous studies have investigated the virus's impact on practitioners. Using survey data (N = 441), this study identified associations between stress, depression, and COVID-related factors and explored the role of social connectedness as a moderator for mental health among Ohio social workers. The results of the study showed that among social workers with a positive COVID-19 diagnosis, 70 percent experienced moderate/high levels of stress, and 37 percent met the criteria for clinical depressive symptoms. Results from the multiple regression analyses showed that perceived stress was positively associated with a positive COVID-19 diagnosis for social workers, and depression was positively associated with working with a client with a positive COVID-19 diagnosis. An interaction effect was also identified between social connectedness and social workers' mental health. These findings suggest that the provision of individual or organizational interventions that emphasize social connectedness can help to protect social workers' mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"48 1","pages":"33-42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10540028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Financial Social Work Connection to Healthcare Productivity: An Intervention to Improve Quality of Care.","authors":"Sally Anne Hageman","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"48 1","pages":"72-74"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10665255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Workers and Physical Health: Imperative Medical Issues and COVID-19.","authors":"Jeffrey T Steen, Taylor Kravitz","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"48 1","pages":"75-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10612047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Applying a Trauma-Informed Approach in Healthcare Settings.","authors":"Kimberly Gallegos","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"48 1","pages":"65-67"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10665254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaipeng Wang, Anao Zhang, Carson M De Fries, Leslie K Hasche
{"title":"Education Moderates the Association between Depressive Symptoms and Self-Rated Health among Older Adults with Cancer.","authors":"Kaipeng Wang, Anao Zhang, Carson M De Fries, Leslie K Hasche","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac031","DOIUrl":"10.1093/hsw/hlac031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the association between depressive symptoms and self-rated health (SRH) and whether and how such association varies by education among older adults with cancer. Data came from the 2019 National Health Interview Survey. A total of 2,470 participants aged 65 or older who had been diagnosed with cancer by a doctor or other health professional were included in this study. Ordinal logistic regression was used to examine the association between depressive symptoms and SRH and whether and how such association varies by education among older adults with cancer. More depressive symptoms were associated with worse SRH. Such association became stronger with higher education among older adults with cancer. Findings confirm the associations between depressive symptoms and SRH among older adults with cancer. The differential impact of education on SRH and on the association between depressive symptoms and SRH highlights the importance of considering patients' educational attainment in a more comprehensive way when working with older adults with cancer. When conducting distress screening among cancer survivors, oncology social workers should be aware of the complex relationship between education and depression in relation to cancer survivors' SRH.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35348049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abigail M Ross, Samantha Schneider, Elizabeth Boskey
{"title":"\"We Are Not Taking a Backseat\": Health Social Workers' Perspectives on COVID-19 Response and Recovery.","authors":"Abigail M Ross, Samantha Schneider, Elizabeth Boskey","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought widespread devastation across the United States, exacerbating existing health inequities rooted in the social determinants of health. Social work is the key workforce tasked with providing social care in healthcare settings. In September 2019, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine released a landmark Consensus Study Report, Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health. The report describes a framework for addressing key care needs that articulates five \"As for action\" (5As)-awareness, alignment, assistance, adjustment, and advocacy-that are critical to social care. Drawing from a series of focus groups conducted with 55 social workers employed in a large urban pediatric quaternary hospital, this study qualitatively examines the utility of this framework in characterizing social care activities during the pandemic response and recovery efforts. Findings suggest that the 5As framework is both applicable to pandemic social work practice and an accurate encapsulation of the core elements of hospital social work practice, even if social workers themselves may not necessarily be aware of that conceptualization. Future implications for social work practice in arenas of awareness, adjustment, assistance, alignment, and advocacy are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":"262-273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40363694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incarcerated People Living with HIV: A Qualitative Exploration of Stigma.","authors":"Amy B Smoyer, Shannon Ferris, Valerie A Earnshaw","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thousands of people living with HIV are incarcerated in the United States. Research about this vulnerable community has focused on access and adherence to medical care, including the impact of stigma on these treatment outcomes. This study presents qualitative data collected from 18 incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and women living with HIV to expand knowledge about how HIV stigma shapes the lived experience of incarceration. The HIV Stigma Framework, including theory about enacted, anticipated, and internalized stigma, was used to analyze participants' narratives. Findings demonstrate an ongoing struggle with all three of these stigma mechanisms. Most participants deliberately concealed their HIV status and, therefore, experienced little enacted stigma. However, their narratives do describe anticipated stigma and, to a lesser extent, internalized stigma. There were gender differences in HIV disclosure and symbolic stigma and intersectionality are used to understand this variation. These findings illustrate the persistence of HIV stigma in correctional institutions and underscore the importance of fighting HIV stigma and homophobia within social work practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":"274-283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40344178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Alex Washington, Wendell Glenn, Joanna Barreras, Angel Ramos
{"title":"A COVID-19 Prevention Program to Encourage Vaccination Uptake among Substance-Using Black and Latinx Sexual Minority Men.","authors":"Thomas Alex Washington, Wendell Glenn, Joanna Barreras, Angel Ramos","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"47 4","pages":"301-304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33465395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shree Nadkarni, Anthony H Ecker, Julia Kay Waid-Ebbs, Lisa C Pickett, Kathleen Ray, Helena K Chandler, Lisa M McAndrew, Drew A Helmer
{"title":"Assessing Change in Participation in Clinical Evaluations of Deployed Veterans with Medically Unexplained Symptoms.","authors":"Shree Nadkarni, Anthony H Ecker, Julia Kay Waid-Ebbs, Lisa C Pickett, Kathleen Ray, Helena K Chandler, Lisa M McAndrew, Drew A Helmer","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many deployed veterans experience issues reintegrating into civilian life. Addressing this in a clinical setting can prove challenging; however, assessing participation, defined as involvement in a life situation by the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, may be helpful. The Community Reintegration of Injured Service Members-Computer Adaptive Test (CRIS-CAT) is a measure of participation developed and validated in veteran populations. The War Related and Illness and Injury Study Center, which provides comprehensive evaluations to veterans with medically unexplained deployment-related concerns, used the CRIS-CAT as part of their social work evaluations during these visits and follow-up telephone calls. This retrospective review of clinical data examines the link between participation as assessed by the CRIS-CAT and factors that are mutable (such as relationships with others) and immutable (personal characteristics) as assessed in the social work evaluation over 12 months. The findings indicate that these veteran patients did not experience change in their participation as measured by the CRIS-CAT. Multivariable regression models demonstrated relationships only between change in CRIS-CAT scales and baseline scores and race. Article concludes by discussing lessons learned from this evaluation of the utility of the CRIS-CAT in clinical care and in longitudinal evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"47 4","pages":"253-261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33465397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Work and Engaging with the Seemingly Incompatible Host Agency.","authors":"Ed Silverman","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":"305-307"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40345049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}