Oxford University Press eBooks,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 652 - 684
Published: Jan. 30, 2025
Abstract
Truck
drivers
have
a
high
prevalence
of
depression.
Their
life
expectancies
are
short,
in
part
due
to
unhealthy
lifestyles
and
associated
chronic
diseases.
Depressed
more
likely
be
involved
crashes.
occupational
risk
factors
for
injury,
general
medical
illness,
depression
include
chronobiologic
stress;
continual
exposure
noise,
vibration,
polluted
air;
poor-quality
food
at
truck
stops;
prolonged
periods
sitting;
time
pressures;
loneliness
when
away
from
home;
work–family
conflicts;
work
schedules
that
interfere
with
consistent
healthcare.
Obesity
sleep
apnea
prevalent
challenging
treat.
Drivers’
culture
contributes
normalization
illness
pain,
denial
or
externalization
depression,
internal
stigma.
Evaluation
depressed
driver
should
identify
addressable
job-related
neglected
problems.
Enhancement
function
crash
prevention
non-stigmatizing
foci
clinical
intervention
compatible
culture.
Oxford University Press eBooks,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 342 - 379
Published: Jan. 30, 2025
Abstract
Korea
has
the
highest
suicide
rate
of
all
high-income
countries:
28.91
per
100,000
population
in
2019—with
disproportionally
high
rates
women
and
older
adults.
Cultural
features
contributing
to
suicide,
often-undiagnosed
depression,
include
normalization
traumatic
experiences,
including
family
intimate
partner
violence;
transgenerational
effects
historical
trauma;
widespread
binge
drinking;
intense
academic,
occupational,
romantic
competition
that
produces
many
“losers”;
preoccupation
with
“face”
external
appearance;
gender
inequality.
two
“national
emotions”—han
jeong.
Han
is
a
form
righteous
anger
grim
resolve
yearning
for
vengeance.
Jeong
attachment
entails
both
protective
social
capital
risk
unhealthy
dependency.
Hwa-byung,
distinctive
expression
depression
most
common
midlife,
reflects
an
excess
han.
The
interpersonal
dimension
deserves
special
attention
Koreans.
Oxford University Press eBooks,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 3 - 22
Published: Jan. 30, 2025
Abstract
Depression
takes
diverse
forms,
each
with
distinctive
epidemiology,
phenomenology,
and
optimal
treatments.
In
case
of
depression,
culture
is
background;
unique
individual
circumstances
are
foreground.
Exemplary
cases
described.
historical
contemporary
Japan,
older
people
often
devalued
socially
excluded;
this
can
lead
to
“lonely
deaths”
from
self-neglect
or
unnatural
deaths
including
suicides.
China’s
long-standing
tradition
authoritarian
parenting
burdensome
filial
obligation
underlies
depression
in
younger
adults.
American
regions
have
depression-relevant
cultural
differences
as
large
those
between
nations.
Utah,
high
gender
inequality
associated
a
prevalence
young
women.
Connecticut
income
wealth
entail
problematic
substance
use
among
lower
socioeconomic
class.
Cultural
awareness,
knowledge
different
communication
styles,
empower
clinicians
make
more
accurate
diagnoses
build
therapeutic
relationships.
Oxford University Press eBooks,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 88 - 98
Published: Jan. 30, 2025
Abstract
Cultural
identity
strongly
influences
the
personal
meaning
of
common
life
events
like
marriage
or
retirement
and
probability
adverse
childhood
(ACEs)
intimate
partner
violence
(IPV).
Some
cultures
normalize
ACEs
IPV.
Life
can
require
adaptation
to
a
new
environment,
involving
acculturative
stress
sometimes
family
distancing.
These
include
not
only
immigration
but
also
migration
within
countries,
changes
in
socioeconomic
class,
onset
major
illness
disability,
composition,
aging.
Acculturation
is
most
successful
when
people
become
bicultural,
integrating
old
identities.
Depression
risk
greatest
feel
isolated:
disconnected
from
both
their
native
culture
that
environment.
Second-generation
immigrants
experience
“acculturative
distancing.”
Effective
psychotherapy
depression
often
requires
addressing
acculturation-related
issues
recognition
traumas
stresses
normalized
by
patient’s
culture.
Oxford University Press eBooks,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 652 - 684
Published: Jan. 30, 2025
Abstract
Truck
drivers
have
a
high
prevalence
of
depression.
Their
life
expectancies
are
short,
in
part
due
to
unhealthy
lifestyles
and
associated
chronic
diseases.
Depressed
more
likely
be
involved
crashes.
occupational
risk
factors
for
injury,
general
medical
illness,
depression
include
chronobiologic
stress;
continual
exposure
noise,
vibration,
polluted
air;
poor-quality
food
at
truck
stops;
prolonged
periods
sitting;
time
pressures;
loneliness
when
away
from
home;
work–family
conflicts;
work
schedules
that
interfere
with
consistent
healthcare.
Obesity
sleep
apnea
prevalent
challenging
treat.
Drivers’
culture
contributes
normalization
illness
pain,
denial
or
externalization
depression,
internal
stigma.
Evaluation
depressed
driver
should
identify
addressable
job-related
neglected
problems.
Enhancement
function
crash
prevention
non-stigmatizing
foci
clinical
intervention
compatible
culture.
