{"id":6963,"date":"2022-12-08T15:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:37:29","slug":"thinking-beyond-the-hospital-for-black-men-recovering-from-traumatic-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/08\/thinking-beyond-the-hospital-for-black-men-recovering-from-traumatic-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking \u201cBeyond the Hospital\u201d for Black Men Recovering from Traumatic Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Special to The Truth<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Research from Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine found that where these patients live and return post-hospitalization affects whether they\u2019ll experience symptoms of depression or PTSD as they heal.<\/p>\n<p>When someone arrives at a hospital with a severe injury, the law guarantees that person will receive care. But how will recovery progress when it\u2019s time for that person to go home?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow often, when we discharge patients, do we think about the environment they\u2019re going back into and take that into consideration?\u201d says Therese Richmond, PhD, the Andrea B. Laporte Professor of Nursing and associate\u00a0dean for research and innovation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. \u201cWe need to start thinking beyond the hospital doors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For research recently published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Richmond, recent Penn Ph.D. graduate Marta Bruce, and colleagues from Penn Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine looked at how environmental factors might affect the healing process for Black men who had suffered traumatic injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Following such individuals for up to four months post-discharge, they found that where these people lived affected how likely they were to experience depression or PTSD as they recovered. What\u2019s more, factors like a neighborhood\u2019s crime rate, disconnectedness, disadvantage, and racial and ethnic makeup influenced symptom severity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of research has focused on finding explanations for poor health outcomes in the individual, at the genetic or molecular level,\u201d says Bruce, who, until recently, worked as an intensive care nurse at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to move beyond that. People live complex lives, and we think their health outcomes can be better explained by where they live and the conditions they\u2019re exposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This work is the next step in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health that involved more than 600 Black men who had been seriously injured, either intentionally or accidentally. This particular study included 451 adult Black males residing in Philadelphia who were hospitalized for traumatic injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to The Truth Research from Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine found that where these patients live and return post-hospitalization affects whether they\u2019ll experience symptoms of depression or PTSD as they heal. When someone arrives at a hospital with a severe injury, the law guarantees that person will receive care. 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