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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Mental Health Access and Treatment among Hispanics
5178.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Mental Health Access and Treatment among Hispanics
Results of studies addressing a broad range of issues related to mental health access and treatment among Hispanics will be presented by leading researchers in the field.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to identify current, leading issues related to mental health access and treatment among Hispanics.
Moderator(s):Joanna Volpe-Vartanian, MS, LICSW
2:30 PMPredictors of antidepressant medication discontinuation among US Latinos
Dominic Hodgkin, PhD, Joanna Volpe-Vartanian, MS, LICSW, Margarita Alegria, PhD
2:55 PMPrevalence of suicidal behaviour among public school adolescent students in Puerto Rico, 2002-04
Linnette Rodríguez-Figueroa, MSc, Margarita R. Moscoso-Alvarez, PhD
3:20 PMHispanic attributions of depressed individuals: What are they and does Spanish-Language dominance matter?
Jason T. Siegel, PhD, Eusebio M. Alvaro, PhD, MPH, Sara Pace Jones, BA
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Mental Health
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA