Health Professional Students As Providers Of Behavioral Health Services To Uninsured Immigrants

Author

Juan Gabriel Rodriguez Guzman, Yale UniversityFollow

Date of Award

1-1-2017

Document Type

Open Access Thesis

Degree Name

Medical Doctor (MD)

Department

Medicine

First Advisor

Michelle Silva

Abstract

Using the principles of lay counseling, health professional students were trained to deliver psychosocial educational interventions and administer substance use screenings to uninsured monolingual Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants with symptomatic depression and/or substance use disorders. Changes in depressive symptoms were assessed with the PHQ-9. Twenty-five patients enrolled in the lay counselor program for depression. PHQ-9 data were available from the 15 individuals who completed the program, among whom the mean baseline score was 11.7 (SD = 6.2) and mean final score was 4.6 (SD = 4.2) (p

Comments

This is an Open Access Thesis.

Recommended Citation

Rodriguez Guzman, Juan Gabriel, "Health Professional Students As Providers Of Behavioral Health Services To Uninsured Immigrants" (2017). Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library. 2166.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl/2166