Acculturation and Depression Help-Seeking Intentions in a Majority Mexican American College Student Sample.

Work has not examined if acculturation or enculturation may predict endorsed benefits, barriers, and intentions to seek mental health services for depression, specifically among Latino students enrolled in a rural and majority Latino immigrant institution of higher education. An improved understanding of factors informing mental health help-seeking is needed to identify possible intervention points to address gaps in accessing depression treatment. Participants (N = 406) read a vignette depicting a person with depressive symptoms. Participants were asked if they would seek help for depression if in the situation described in the vignette. Participants provided text responses about their preferences for managing depression symptoms and their mental health help-seeking history. Additionally, participants completed a self-report depression symptom screener, demographic surveys, acculturation assessment, and questionnaires on perceived benefits and barriers to seeking mental health services. Path analysis was used to test the link between acculturation status and intent to seek services for depression, with benefits and barriers as mediators. The results revealed that higher perceived benefits and lower barriers were directly associated with greater intentions to seek help. Furthermore, an indirect effect of acculturation on help-seeking intentions via higher perceived benefits of seeking care was observed. These findings persisted after controlling for age, gender, depression, and history of seeking care for depression. Future work should test the replicability of this finding with diverse college students living in predominantly immigrant communities. Universities might consider tailoring outreach initiatives to provide information on the range and accessibility of mental health services, the location of mental health service centers, and the procedures for accessing such services.

Retraso del diagnóstico en un paciente con Hakim Adams / Delayed diagnosis in a patient with Hakim Adams

La hidrocefalia normotensiva es una patología caracterizada por alteración en la marcha, incontencia vesical, déficit cognitivo, hallazgos imagenológicos de ventriculomegalia comunicante y, presión normal de líquido cefalorraquídeo. Por la ambigüedad de sus síntomas y por la falta de criterios imagenológicos muy concluyentes es una patología de difícil diagnóstico inicial; el paciente muchas veces acude a distintos especialistas por síntomas aislados hasta que se relacionan los mismos y, se deriva el caso a Neurología / Neurocirugía. Se presenta el caso de un paciente de 65 años que presentó un cuadro de 2 años de evolución de incontinencia urinaria tratado como alteración de la micción secundaria a una hiperplasia prostática benigna sin mejoría alguna en ese intervalo de tiempo. Luego se agregó al cuadro una alteración en la marcha que fue poco valorada por el paciente y su entorno, sin ser conscientes del déficit cognitivo hasta que se realizó la evaluación neuropsicológica. Si bien el paciente presentaba la triada clásica que caracteriza a la hidrocefalia de presión normal, no fue hasta dos años luego del inicio del cuadro que se llegó al diagnóstico y, fue intervenido quirúrgicamente. Se colocó una válvula de derivación ventrículo peritoneal de presión media, con la cual presentó una evolución favorable y, resolución absoluta de los síntomas.

Normotensive hydrocephalus is a pathology characterized by impaired gait, bladder incontinence, cognitive deficit, images findings of communicating ventriculomegaly and normal cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Due to the ambiguity of its symptoms and the lack of conclusive images criteria, it is difficult initial diagnosis pathology; the patient often goes to different specialists for isolated symptoms until they are related, and the case is referred to Neurology / Neurosurgery. We present the case of a patient who presented a 2-year history of urinary incontinence treated as an alteration of urination secondary to a benign prostatic hyperplasia without any improvement in that time interval. Then a gait disturbance was added to the picture that was poorly valued by the patient and his environment, without being aware of the cognitive deficit until a neuropsychological evaluation. Although the patient presented the classic triad that characterizes normal pressure hydrocephalus, it was not until two years after the onset of the condition that the diagnosis was reached and underwent surgery. A peritoneal ventricular shunt of medium pressure was placed, presenting a favorable evaluation and complete resolution of symptoms.