ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2020
"Se vale llorar y se vale reír": Latina Immigrants' Coping Strategies for Maintaining Mental Health in the Face of Immigration-Related Stressors.
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- Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma: In-Person and Online Delivery of an Intervention to Promote Mental Health Among Latina Immigrant Women.Journal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2022Trial
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- A qualitative study of young migrants' encounters with suicide and self-harm content, connecting and seeking help on social media.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Patterns of mental health help seeking among Latina immigrant women.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Unraveling the Migration Journey: Understanding the Impact of Migration Stage Stress on the Mental Health of Mexicans and Central Americans.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Article
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- Assessing the feasibility of a community health worker-delivered mental health intervention for Latina immigrant women.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Determining the role of acculturative stress in predicting mental health service use among Latinx immigrants.Ethnicity & health · 2024Article
- Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma: Participant Perspectives on an In-Person and Online Implementation of an Intervention to Promote Mental Health in Latina Immigrant Women.Community mental health journal · 2024Article
- Responding to structural inequities: Coping strategies among immigrant women during COVID-19.SSM. Mental health · 2024Article
- Enhancing immigrant families' mental health through the promotion of structural and community-based support.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Promoting mental health in Latina immigrant women: Results from the Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma intervention trial.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Depressive Symptoms of Latinx Women in Rural Farmworker and Urban Non-Farmworker Families in North Carolina.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- VALOR: Cultural considerations when assessing Central American immigrant women in behavioral health settings.Practice innovations (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Article
- Stress, social support and their relationship to depression and anxiety among Latina immigrant women.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2021Article
- Clinical situation of Venezuelan migrants living with HIV in a hospital in Lima, Peru.International journal of STD & AIDS · 2021Article
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Abstract
Latina immigrant women in the U.S. are at increased risk for poor mental health status, due to socioeconomic- and immigration-related stressors. We sought to describe the mechanisms linking immigration-related stressors and mental health, including how the current social and political climate affects women's mental health status, and which coping strategies are used to maintain well-being. We conducted four focus groups with Latina immigrants (N = 58) recruited through local community-based organizations. We drew on the stages of migration framework to guide our study design and analysis. Focus group transcripts were analyzed to identify emergent themes across groups. On average, focus group participants were 35.5 years old and had lived in the U.S. for 12.5 years. Most were from Mexico. Participants reported immigration-related stressors including unsafe migration, worry about immigration enforcement, broken social ties, and limited access to health and social services. In the face of these stressors, they relied on transnational social networks and connections with other Latina immigrant women. Social ties with family in the U.S. also helped them alleviate social isolation and overcome barriers to social services. Those who were mothers expressed that their children were a source of encouragement and comfort with feelings of stress. Immigration policies that contribute to unsafe migration, worry about immigration enforcement, limited social ties, and limited access to social services were associated with increased stress among Latina immigrants who participated in the focus groups. These participants could benefit from increased access to mental health care and community-based programs that connect them to resources.
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