People experiencing mental health illnesses such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who do not receive mental health treatment services (MHTS) are at a higher risk of committing crimes. The research problem of this study was to fill the gap in the literature concerning gender, sex at birth, and gender identity differences as predictors of attitudes toward perceived stigma in help-seeking behavior (HSB) and use of MHTS. The sample size included 5,000 participants in the de-identified secondary data set of students from 26 universities and colleges across the United States. The Healthy Minds Study collected these data in 2016-2017 using the Patient Health Questionnaire. To address the research questions guiding the study, one-way ANOVA was used to test for differences in groups based on sexual orientation and gender identity for measures of perception of stigma, use of MHTS, and HSB regarding receiving mental health services. Between groups, MANOVA was used to assess differences in groups based on gender identity and sexual orientation on a linear combination of the dependent measures of perception of stigma in use of MHTS and HSB. There were directional differences between groups based on independent variables gender and sexual orientation on measures of the dependent variables perception of stigma in use of MHTS and of HSB. However, a closer examination of the results indicated that the effect size associated with the directional differences was weak. The results from this study may help clinicians to identify treatment challenges related to biological sex and gender identity and help to influence future interventions to better accommodate the contemporary population of men and women experiencing symptoms of PTSD.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:39:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PriscillaCBA_DISSERT.pdf: 1344177 bytes, checksum: d76b3c3ce16850a293fa70d3ea50fea2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-10 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / The increase in survival time and cure requires more extensive care about the quality of life of cancer patients, which begins soon after diagnosis. Thus, it seems reasonable to the emphasis on development of studies covering the psychosocial variables, such as stigma, treatment of childhood cancer aiming thereby to the attention of the overall needs of the child. Thus, this research aims to investigate the perception of stigma and quality of life in children with cancer. This is a cross-sectional research and understanding of the descriptive type, the type specimen being adopted for convenience. This consisted of thirty children with cancer and thirty children without chronic disease. The instruments used were the Quality of Life Questionnaire, the Perceived Stigma Scale and Technical Drawing Story with a Theme. The results indicate that the chronic condition, no interfered significantly in satisfaction with the quality of life in children with cancer and identified that the quality of life is not related to the stigma. Comparison with children with no chronic disease with infants with cancer, no significant differences were observed. However, the group mean contrast was lower, suggesting a greater impairment in quality of life of children with cancer compared to those without chronic disease. It is worth noting that the psychosocial effects and the limitations imposed by disease and treatment are presented as important factors in the design mode of subjective manifestations of children with cancer. Therefore, it is expected that knowledge elucidated by this study will assist, greatly to the promotion of improved emotional, biological and social development itself and the involvement of children with cancer treatment / O aumento do tempo de sobrevida e cura exige cuidados mais amplos em rela??o ? qualidade de vida dos pacientes com c?ncer, que tem inicio logo ap?s o diagn?stico. Deste modo, parece acertado a ?nfase dada ao desenvolvimento de estudos que abranjam as vari?veis psicossociais, como o estigma, no tratamento do c?ncer infantil visando assim ? aten??o das necessidades globais da crian?a. Destarte, esta pesquisa se prop?s a investigar a percep??o de estigma e a qualidade de vida em crian?as com neoplasia. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de corte transversal do tipo descritiva e compreensiva, sendo adotado o tipo amostra por conveni?ncia. Esta foi constitu?da por trinta crian?as com c?ncer e trinta crian?as sem doen?a cr?nica. Os instrumentos utilizados foram o Question?rio de Qualidade de Vida, a Escala de Percep??o de Estigma e a t?cnica de Desenho Est?ria com Tema. Os resultados apontam que a condi??o cr?nica n?o interferiu de modo significativo na satisfa??o com a qualidade de vida nas crian?as com neoplasia e identificou-se que a qualidade de vida n?o est? relacionada com o estigma. Quanto ? compara??o de crian?as sem doen?a cr?nica com os infantes com neoplasia, n?o foram observadas diferen?as significativas. Contudo a m?dia do grupo contraste apresentou-se menor, sugerindo um maior preju?zo na qualidade de vida das crian?as com c?ncer em rela??o ?s sem doen?a cr?nica. Ressaltase ainda que as repercuss?es psicossociais e as limita??es impostas pela doen?a e pelo tratamento se apresentam como fatores importantes no modo de estrutura??o das manifesta??es subjetivas das crian?as com c?ncer. Assim sendo, espera-se que o conhecimento elucidado por este estudo venha a colaborar, sobremaneira, para a promo??o da melhora emocional, biol?gica e social e do pr?prio desenvolvimento e envolvimento das crian?as com c?ncer no seu tratamento