Health Psychology and Depression

Health Psychology and Depression

 

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For this assignment you will create your research question and at least five scholarly, peer reviewed, empirical studies, all from the past 5 to 7 years related to Health Psychology. Your articles must support the need for your research. Formulate a question and why do you think it is important to know more about the issue/research. Prepare a document that includes your research question(s), including how your research will add to the current research in your chosen field. Your document will include five scholarly, peer reviewed, empirical studies from the past 5 to 7 years. This section should include APA formatted citations for each article, including permalink; additionally a short annotation for each article stating how the literature shows your research is needed. While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines.
TOPIC OF STUDY: Health Psychology and Depression
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Several psychological problems affect the elderly, and one of them is depression. The elderly need great attention and quality care to help them maintain good mental health in their old age. However, there has been a great challenge in offsetting the prevalence of depression in this target group due to negative perceptions concerning the disorder. The purpose of this study is identifying, “What are the self-perceptions and stigma in society that prevent the elderly with depression from receiving the care they need in terms of medication, social support, and therapy and how does this impact the patients?” The paper will analyze researches by Scazufca et al., (2016); Stark et al., (2018); Wilby and Barusch, (2012), Holm et al., (2014) and Overend et al., (2015). The selected peer-reviewed empirical studies will help in understanding how the stigmatization of the elderly with depression prevents them from getting adequate care.

Annotated bibliography

Holm, A. L., Lyberg, A., & Severinsson, E. (2014). Living with stigma: depressed elderly             persons’ experiences of physical health problems. Nursing research and practice, 2014.        Retrieved from https://www.hindawi.com/journals/nrp/2014/527920/

The article demonstrates that stigmatizing attitudes towards the elderly with depression is a prevalent problem that has contributed to diagnostic…

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