Sociocultural factors that influence help-seeking related to mental suffering among Brazilian women living in peripheral neighborhoods

• Grant number: 23/16689-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2024
• End date: March 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Psychiatric Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Jacqueline de Souza
• Grantee: Jacqueline de Souza
• Host Institution: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (EERP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Adriana Moreira Alves ; Carla Aparecida Arena Ventura ; Fabio Scorsolini-Comin ; Jamila Souza Gonçalves ; Janaína Cristina Pasquini de Almeida ; Jaqueline Lemos de Oliveira ; Regina Célia Fiorati ; Zeyne Alves Pires Scherer
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/00175-2 - The use of the Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interview as a strategy to facilitate help-seeking among women living in peripheral neighborhoods, BP.PD

Abstract

This project aims to analyze help-seeking predictors in a sample of Brazilian women residing in peripheral neighborhoods of Ribeirão Preto and propose strategies to facilitate this group's access to formal and informal social support available in the territory covered by reference primary care units. for this population. The research problem is based on the existing gap between needs, demands and access to mental health care and formal and informal sources of social support. The proposal values the cultural aspects that permeate this issue and aims to include people from the community in the development of the research in its different stages. The project is theoretically based on cultural psychiatry, is aligned with an American research group and focuses on the mental health of women residing in the peripheral communities of the municipality. Data will be collected using psychometric scales and open questions, the analyzes used will be statistical tests and content analysis respectively and after the participatory consolidation of the answer to the proposed questions, a product (flowchart or protocol) will be developed to favor the search for help within the specificities of the community and the studied group. (AU)