Health Promotion & Role Development in Adv. Nursing Practice

Yanay Lara Corrales

Health Promotion & Role Development in Adv. Nursing Practice

Instructor, Alexander Garcia Salas

October 27th, 2022

Topic 1. Healthy People 2030 Mental Health and Mental Disorders

At some point in their lives, over half of all Americans will receive a mental condition diagnosis. Healthy People The focus of 2030 is on the prevention, screening, evaluation, and treatment of behavioral and mental problems. The goals for mental health and mental disorders also include improving the health and standard of living for those who suffer from these conditions. All ages and racial/ethnic groups are impacted by mental disorders; however, some groups are disproportionately afflicted. Additionally, statistics indicate that only 50% of individuals with mental problems receive the necessary care. Additionally, there are connections between physical and mental wellness. Mental illnesses like anxiety and depression can make it difficult for people to engage in healthy practices. Like how it may be more difficult for some people to receive treatment for mental disorders due to physical health issues. Expanding the detection of mental illnesses can aid in patients receiving the necessary care.

Mental disorders are among the most common causes of disability, and the resulting disease burden is among the highest of all diseases. The proportion of U.S. adults estimated to have a mental disorder rose from 17.7 percent in 2008 to 19.1 percent, or 47.6 million people, in 2018. Similarly, the proportion of adults suffering from seriously impairing mental disorders has risen significantly, from 3.7 percent in 2008 to an estimated 4.6 percent, or 11.4 million people, in 2018. However, in 2018 fewer than half of adults with any mental illness received mental health services in the past year. Of the 4.6 million adults ages 18 to 25 years in 2018 with a past-year major depressive episode, about 2.3 million, or 49.6 percent, received treatment for depression in the past year. Moreover, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for the deaths of 48,344 Americans in 2018.

Topic 2.   U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).

The USPSTF recommends screening for depression in the general adult population, including pregnant and postpartum women. Screening should be implemented with adequate systems in place to ensure accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and appropriate follow-up.

The USPSTF concludes with at least moderate certainty that there is a moderate net benefit to screening for depression in adults, including older adults, who receive care in clinical practices that have adequate systems in place to ensure accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and appropriate follow-up after screening. The USPSTF also concludes with at least moderate certainty that there is a moderate net benefit to screening for depression in pregnant and postpartum women who receive care in clinical practices that have CBT or other evidence-based counseling available after screening.

References:

Home Page: United States Preventive Services Taskforce. Home page | United States Preventive Services Taskforce. (n.d.). Retrieved October 27, 2022, from https://uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/home

Mental Health. Objectives and Data – Healthy People 2030. (n.d.). Retrieved October 27, 2022, from https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data

Topic 1: Healthy People 20230

Describe your selected health problem. Why is the selected topic important?

Teen suicide is defined as an event of action where a teen causes their death on purpose. Teen suicide has become a significant health indicator, as per the healthy people 2030 report. It should be known that suicide is one of the leading causes of death among youths after motorcycle accidents. The selection of this topic was triggered by the increased rate of teen suicide, which requires immediate interventions that could help reduce the rate of suicide among adolescents. According to the world health organization statistics on teen suicide, it has been established that over 500 adolescents commit suicide in the united states each year (Stewart & Zullo, 2020). These stats indicate that each year, at least 12 suicides are committed by young people for every 100000 youths. Increasing rate of adolescent suicide is creating many worries for parents and the public at large. Therefore, there is a great need to understand the risk factors for teen suicide and identify appropriate interventions that could be deployed to minimize deaths resulting from suicides.

Will this problem lead to secondary conditions or complications?

It should be noted that not all teens attempt suicide and manage to take their own life. In a few isolated circumstances, suicide attempts may fail, leading to complications or developing secondary conditions such as disabilities. Parents, schools, and other relevant agencies should work on finding major leading and motivating factors for suicide attempts, such as exposure to violent parents, substance, and drug abuse, neglection, and gender prejudice(Rice, 2021).

What criteria are used to understand the risk of developing such conditions or complications?

Through a collection of data from focus groups, online research a review of existing literature from police and other law criminal justice agencies, adequate information can be gathered about significant causes and risk factors for teen suicide (MALOKU & MALOKU, 2020).

Topic 2: 

Describe your findings and discuss the strengths or benefits of this source. Would you modify something about it, mainly the information concerning your selected health problem?

Upon searching keywords such as teen suicide, the site generated 128 results indicating the status of the search results. It also displayed the type, year, topic name, age group, and category of significant risk factors for teen suicide-related issues. The benefit o this source is that it generates evidence bases results about teen suicides. Secondly, the site helps the researcher identify the most current data source with reference to the selected topic. It automatically organizes evidence-based articles according to the year of publication. This makes it easy for researchers to set only moots recent articles for review on the significant issues regarding adolescent suicides. Secondly, the site is more reliable and effective when researching various topics of great concern as far as the healthcare sector is concerned.

It is worth mentioning that the source also provides adequate and reliable data organized with respect to the researched topic. For example, when I searched bout teen suicide, the site not only generated unmoor results that were topic-specific but also provided results under various subheadings such as depression and suicide risk factors among teens. This helped me identify depression as one of the risk factors for adolescent depression. Also, the site generates more insights into the causes of teen suicide, citing various predisposing factors such as mental and cognitive challenges as well as substance abuse. This made it easy for me to gather enough content on the causes of adolescent suicide. In my view, I would not modify anything since the site is exemplarily made with ease of use and generation of results within a few seconds after a single click.

References

Kaslow, N. (2022, February 1). Teen suicides: What are the risk factors? Child Mind Institute.

MALOKU, A., & MALOKU, E. (2020). Sociological perspective of suicides / Sociological perspective of suicides. Uluslararası Ekonomi, İşletme ve Politika Dergisi.

Rice, A. (2021, January 23). Teen suicide. familydoctor.org.

Stewart, S. M., & Zullo, L. (2020). Adolescent suicide. The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development, 1-13.

The United States Preventive Services Taskforce. (2020). Search results | United States preventive services Taskforce.