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Zvolensky MJ, Rogers AH, Mayorga NA, Shepherd JM, Bakhshaie J, Garza M, Viana AG, Ochoa-Perez M, Lemaire C, Ruiz A, Peraza N. Perceived Discrimination, Experiential Avoidance, and Mental Health among Hispanic Adults in Primary Care. Transcult Psychiatry 2022; 59:337-348. [PMID: 35018872 DOI: 10.1177/13634615211038159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
The Hispanic population is the largest minority group in the United States and frequently experiences racial discrimination and mental health difficulties. Prior work suggests that perceived racial discrimination is a significant risk factor for poorer mental health among Hispanic in the United States. However, little work has investigated how perceived racial discrimination relates to anxiety and depression among Hispanic adults. Thus, the current study evaluated the explanatory role of experiential avoidance in the relation between perceived racial discrimination and anxiety/depressive symptoms and disorders among Hispanic adults in primary care. Participants included 202 Spanish-speaking adults (Mage = 38.99, SD = 12.43, 86.1% female) attending a community-based Federally Qualified Health Center. Results were consistent with the hypothesis that perceived racial discrimination had a significant indirect effect on depression, social anxiety, and anxious arousal symptoms as well as the number of mood and anxiety disorders through experiential avoidance. These findings suggest future work should continue to explore experiential avoidance in the association between perceived racial discrimination and other psychiatric and medical problems among the Hispanic population.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael J Zvolensky
- Department of Psychology, 14743University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.,Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.,HEALTH Institute, 14743University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, 14743University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, 14743University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, 14743University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, 14743University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, 14743University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, 14743University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, 14743University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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Mayorga NA, Manning KF, Garey L, Viana AG, Ditre JW, Zvolensky MJ. The Role of Experiential Avoidance in Terms of Fatigue and Pain During COVID-19 Among Latinx Adults. COGNITIVE THERAPY AND RESEARCH 2022; 46:470-479. [PMID: 35125558 PMCID: PMC8802248 DOI: 10.1007/s10608-022-10292-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Background Latinx persons are overrepresented in terms of 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection rates and constitute a subpopulation at increased risk for COVID-19 related physical ailments. Fatigue and pain are among the most prevalent somatic symptoms among the Latinx population; however, there is little understanding of individual difference factors that are related to fatigue and pain during COVID-19 among this health disparities population. Experiential avoidance (EA) reflects the persistent tendency to avoid aversive internal sensations. Methods The current study sought to extend past work by exploring EA in relation to fatigue severity, pain intensity, and pain disability among 182 Latinx adult persons during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results Results indicated that EA accounted for a statistically significant amount of variance across the criterion variables. Conclusions Overall, the current work provides initial empirical evidence that EA is related to greater fatigue severity and pain severity/disability among Latinx persons during COVID-19.
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- Nubia A. Mayorga
- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, New York, NY USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX USA
- Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
- HEALTH Institute, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., Room 126, Houston, TX 77204 USA
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Bakhshaie J, Rogers AH, Mayorga NA, Ditre J, Rodríguez-Cano R, Ruiz AC, Viana AG, Garza M, Lemaire C, Ochoa-Perez M, Bogiaizian D, Zvolensky MJ. Perceived Racial Discrimination and Pain Intensity/Disability Among Economically Disadvantaged Latinos in a Federally Qualified Health Center: The Role of Anxiety Sensitivity. J Immigr Minor Health 2019; 21:21-29. [PMID: 29460134 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-018-0715-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The present study examined the role of anxiety sensitivity (AS; fear of the negative consequences of anxiety) in the relation between perceived racial discrimination and pain-related problems among Latinos seeking health services at a Federally Qualified Health Center. Participants included 145 adult Latinos (87.80% female, Mage = 38.07 years, SD = 11.98, and 96.2% reported Spanish as their first language). Results indicated that perceived racial discrimination was indirectly related to the pain intensity and pain disability through AS. These effects were evident above and beyond the variance accounted for by gender, age, marital status, educational status, employment status, years living in the United States, and number of axis I diagnoses. Overall, the present findings highlight the merit in focusing further scientific attention on the interplay between perceived racial discrimination and AS to better understand and inform interventions to reduce pain problems among Latinos in primary care.
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- Jafar Bakhshaie
- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Psychotherapeutic Area of "Asociación Ayuda", Anxiety Disorders Clinic, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
- Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., Room 126, Houston, TX, 77204, USA.
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Bakhshaie J, Hanna AE, Viana AG, Garza M, Valdivieso J, Ochoa-Perez M, Lemaire C, Cardoso JB, Rogers AH, Mayorga NA, Bogiaizian D, Zvolensky MJ. Acculturative stress and mental health among economically disadvantaged Spanish-speaking Latinos in primary care: The role of anxiety sensitivity. Psychiatry Res 2018; 261:421-427. [PMID: 29353767 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2017] [Revised: 12/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The present study examined the role of anxiety sensitivity in the relation between acculturative stress and mood and anxiety symptoms and disorders among Latinos seeking health services at a primary healthcare facility. Participants included 142 adult Latinos (86.6% female, Mage = 39.05 years, SD = 12.46%, and 96.3% reported Spanish as their first language). Results indicated that acculturative stress was indirectly related to the number of mood and anxiety disorders, anxious arousal, social anxiety, and depressive symptoms through anxiety sensitivity. The observed effects were evident above and beyond the variance accounted for by gender, age, marital status, educational status, employment status, years living in the United States, and negative affectivity. Overall, the present findings suggest that there is merit in focusing further scientific attention on the interplay between acculturative stress and anxiety sensitivity to better understand and inform interventions to reduce anxiety/depressive vulnerability among Latinos in primary care.
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- Jafar Bakhshaie
- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Legacy Community Health Services, Houston, TX, United States
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- Legacy Community Health Services, Houston, TX, United States
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- Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Psychotherapeutic Area of "Asociación Ayuda", Anxiety Disorders Clinic, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States; Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
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Much of the scientific work addressing the enigmas of anxiety and its disorders has been conducted among European Americans. This work has led to great progress into the nature of anxiety psychopathology, including etiologic, maintenance, and relapse processes. Moreover, evidenced-based treatments for anxiety and its disorders have arguably been among the best in the field of psychopathology for well over two decades. Yet, the progress thus far attained on the nature and treatment of anxiety disorders has not benefited all members of society equally. In fact, there are striking gaps of inequalities in anxiety disorder research and practice. The population in the United States (U.S.) and many parts of the industrialized world is rapidly changing in terms of diversity, and gaps between segments of society are growing in many instances (e.g., financial inequity). Health disparities in anxiety disorders are not a generic issue, but rather, reflect a systematic difference disproportionately affecting groups often not afforded a high social status ranking. We developed this Special Issue in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders to call attention to matters of inequality in anxiety disorders. The present special issue is designed to contextualize contemporary health disparity work on anxiety and its disorders. The special issue highlights three domains of study that are starting to guide research and practice in this arena, including sociocultural and contextual influences on anxiety and its disorders; intra-individual transdiagnostic mechanisms underpinning the expression and etiology/maintenance of anxiety psychopathology; and the close interconnection between anxiety processes and health status and health compromising behaviors. By covering a range of issues interconnected by their focus on understanding health disparity issues, it is hoped that this issue will: alert readers to the significance of this work at different levels of analysis; illustrate the many domains currently being explored via innovative approaches; and identify fecund areas for future systematic study.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael J Zvolensky
- University of Houston, Department of Psychology, Fred J. Heyne Building, Suite 104, Houston, Texas77204, USA; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Behavioral Science, 1155 Pressler Street, Houston, Texas77030, USA.
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- University of Houston, Department of Psychology, Fred J. Heyne Building, Suite 104, Houston, Texas77204, USA
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- University of Houston, Department of Psychology, Fred J. Heyne Building, Suite 104, Houston, Texas77204, USA
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Montero-Marín J, Navarro-Gil M, Puebla-Guedea M, Luciano JV, Van Gordon W, Shonin E, García-Campayo J. Efficacy of "Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy" in the Treatment of Fibromyalgia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Front Psychiatry 2017; 8:307. [PMID: 29387020 PMCID: PMC5775966 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE There is a growing interest in evaluating the effectiveness of compassion interventions for treating psychological disorders. The present study evaluated the effectiveness of "attachment-based compassion therapy" (ABCT) in the treatment of fibromyalgia (FM), and the role of psychological flexibility as a mediator of improvements. METHODS A total of 42 patients with FM were randomly assigned to ABCT or relaxation (active control group). Both the intervention and control condition were combined with treatment as usual (TAU). The primary outcome was functional status (FIQ), and the secondary outcomes were clinical severity (CGI-S), pain catastrophizing (PCS), anxiety (HADS-A), depression (HADS-D), quality of life (EQ-5D), and psychological flexibility (AAQ-II). Differences between the groups were estimated using mixed-effects models, and mediation assessments were conducted using path analyses. RESULTS The ABCT group demonstrated superior outcomes compared to the relaxation group, including better FIQ values after treatment (B = -3.01; p = 0.003). Differences in FIQ were maintained at 3-month follow-up (B = -3.33; p = 0.001). The absolute risk reduction in ABCT compared to relaxation increased by 40.0%, with an NNT = 3 based on criteria of ≥50% FIQ reduction after treatment. Psychological flexibility had a significant mediating effect on improvements. CONCLUSION These results suggest that ABCT combined with TAU appears to be effective in the treatment of FM symptoms. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION http://ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT02454244.
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- Jesús Montero-Marín
- Primary Care Prevention and Health Promotion Research Network (RedIAPP), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Primary Care Prevention and Health Promotion Research Network (RedIAPP), Zaragoza, Spain.,Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Psychology and Sociology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Primary Care Prevention and Health Promotion Research Network (RedIAPP), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Teaching Research & Innovation Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, St Boi de Llobregat, Spain.,Primary Care Prevention and Health Promotion Research Network, RedIAPP, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Psychological Research, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom
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- Awake to Wisdom Centre for Meditation and Mindfulness Research, Ragusa, Italy
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- Primary Care Prevention and Health Promotion Research Network (RedIAPP), Zaragoza, Spain.,Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias (IIS), Miguel Servet Hospital, Psychiatry Service, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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