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- All Subjects: Bleeding Control
- Creators: Allen, Angela
- Creators: Hagler, Debra
- Member of: Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
- Member of: Theses and Dissertations
Minority mental health patients face many health inequities and inequalities that may stem from implicit bias and a lack of cultural awareness from their healthcare providers. I analyzed the current literature evaluating implicit bias among healthcare providers and culturally specific life traumas that Latinos and African Americans face that can impact their mental health. Additionally, I researched a current mental health assessments tool, the Child and Adolescent Trauma Survey (CATS), and evaluated it for the use on Latino and African American patients. Face-to-face interviews with two healthcare providers were also used to analyze the CATS for its’ applicability to Latino and African American patients. Results showed that these assessments were not sufficient in capturing culturally specific life traumas of minority patients. Based on the literature review and analysis of the interviews with healthcare providers, a novel assessment tool, the Culturally Traumatic Events Questionnaire (CTEQ), was created to address the gaps that currently make up other mental health assessment tools used on minority patients.
Bleeding control education has taken a much more prominent focus in saving lives over the past decade. While many non-medically trained civilians are receiving Stop the Bleed training, throughout their time as students, baccalaureate nursing students prominently struggle in pre-hospital emergencies. Not only would the implementation of Stop the Bleed education into baccalaureate nursing improve client outcomes, it can further spread and share the message of bleeding control, as well as enhance the student experience.