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The Relationship between Discrimination and Perceived Stress: Buffering Effect of Online Health Information Seeking among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
In Young Park,Anamika Barman-Adhikari,Hsun-Ta Hsu,Sarah C. Narendorf,Diane Santa Maria,Jama Shelton,Kristin M. Ferguson,Kimberly Bender,Robin Petering +8 more
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This paper showed that young adults experiencing homelessness (YAEH) face discrimination experiences placing them at risk for negative health outcomes, such as depression, anxiety, and depression, and reported discrimination and perceived stress.Abstract:
Young adults experiencing homelessness (YAEH) face discrimination experiences placing them at risk for negative health outcomes. Prior research demonstrates discrimination and perceived stress amon...read more
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The information-seeking behaviours of partners of men with prostate cancer: a qualitative pilot study.
TL;DR: The information-seeking behaviours of partners of men with prostate cancer changed over time and across situations and their behaviours were sometimes different from those of their partners (the patients), with some partners exhibiting more information- seeking behaviour than patients.
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Homeless youth's overwhelming health burden: A review of the literature.
TL;DR: There is an intersection among education deficits, social service insufficiencies, and poor mental and physical health in homeless youth and plenty of work is still required to reduce health inequalities and improve the daily living conditions of Canadian youth living in poverty.
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Homeless But Connected: The Role of Heterogeneous Social Network Ties and Social Networking Technology in the Mental Health Outcomes of Street-Living Adolescents
Eric Rice,Seth Kurzban,Diana Ray +2 more
TL;DR: Face-to-face relationships with street-based peers were a risk factor for both anxiety and depression, while contacting home-based friends through social networking technology was found to be protective for depression.
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The homeless use Facebook?! Similarities of social network use between college students and homeless young adults
TL;DR: The results indicate that contemporary young adults sampled across socio-economic class and varying ethnicities are far more similar than prior research would suggest and call into question the term ''digital divide'' for describing group differences in technology use.
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Discrimination and well-being amongst the homeless: the role of multiple group membership.
TL;DR: The results showed that perceived group-based discrimination at T1 was associated with fewer group memberships, and lower subsequent well-being at T2, suggesting that the experience of group- based discrimination may hinder connecting with groups in the broader social world — groups that could potentially protect the individual against the negative impact of homelessness and discrimination.