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Role of Mosque Communities in Supporting Muslims with Mental Illness: Results of CBPR-oriented Focus Groups in the Bay Area, California
Objective The purpose of this study was to explore perspectives of Muslims residing in the Bay Area, California on the role of the mosque community in supporting community members’ mental health needs and barriers to mental health care for members who experience mental health challenges. Methods Thi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9628571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36322232 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11126-022-10002-x |
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author | Ali, Sara Mahmood, Aafreen McBryde-Redzovic, Aminah Humam, Fairuziana Awaad, Rania |
author_facet | Ali, Sara Mahmood, Aafreen McBryde-Redzovic, Aminah Humam, Fairuziana Awaad, Rania |
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description | Objective The purpose of this study was to explore perspectives of Muslims residing in the Bay Area, California on the role of the mosque community in supporting community members’ mental health needs and barriers to mental health care for members who experience mental health challenges. Methods This study employed a CBPR-focused qualitative approach in the form of content analysis of three focus group discussions organized and conducted with the help of a Community Advisory Board made up of members of the Muslim Community Association. Results Two major themes were identified upon examination of the data: services needed in the mosque community and barriers to addressing mental health issues in the mosque community. Specifically, participants reported wanting support groups within the mosque space, mosque-based activities, virtual support, community social workers, and family-oriented services. Barriers reported included community stigma, lack of cultural awareness of race-ethnic minorities within the community, attribution of mental illness to lack of faith or supernatural causes, and specific barriers unique to vulnerable/special subgroups within the community. Conclusion These findings highlight the need for developing mental health-related services and social support initiatives within the mosque space, specifically for those Muslim Americans living in the Bay Area in California. Furthermore, special attention needs to be placed on the barriers to accessing these services as identified by the community members. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11126-022-10002-x. |
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spelling | pubmed-96285712022-11-02 Role of Mosque Communities in Supporting Muslims with Mental Illness: Results of CBPR-oriented Focus Groups in the Bay Area, California Ali, Sara Mahmood, Aafreen McBryde-Redzovic, Aminah Humam, Fairuziana Awaad, Rania Psychiatr Q Original Paper Objective The purpose of this study was to explore perspectives of Muslims residing in the Bay Area, California on the role of the mosque community in supporting community members’ mental health needs and barriers to mental health care for members who experience mental health challenges. Methods This study employed a CBPR-focused qualitative approach in the form of content analysis of three focus group discussions organized and conducted with the help of a Community Advisory Board made up of members of the Muslim Community Association. Results Two major themes were identified upon examination of the data: services needed in the mosque community and barriers to addressing mental health issues in the mosque community. Specifically, participants reported wanting support groups within the mosque space, mosque-based activities, virtual support, community social workers, and family-oriented services. Barriers reported included community stigma, lack of cultural awareness of race-ethnic minorities within the community, attribution of mental illness to lack of faith or supernatural causes, and specific barriers unique to vulnerable/special subgroups within the community. Conclusion These findings highlight the need for developing mental health-related services and social support initiatives within the mosque space, specifically for those Muslim Americans living in the Bay Area in California. Furthermore, special attention needs to be placed on the barriers to accessing these services as identified by the community members. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11126-022-10002-x. Springer US 2022-11-02 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9628571/ /pubmed/36322232 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11126-022-10002-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Ali, Sara Mahmood, Aafreen McBryde-Redzovic, Aminah Humam, Fairuziana Awaad, Rania Role of Mosque Communities in Supporting Muslims with Mental Illness: Results of CBPR-oriented Focus Groups in the Bay Area, California |
title | Role of Mosque Communities in Supporting Muslims with Mental Illness: Results of CBPR-oriented Focus Groups in the Bay Area, California |
title_full | Role of Mosque Communities in Supporting Muslims with Mental Illness: Results of CBPR-oriented Focus Groups in the Bay Area, California |
title_fullStr | Role of Mosque Communities in Supporting Muslims with Mental Illness: Results of CBPR-oriented Focus Groups in the Bay Area, California |
title_full_unstemmed | Role of Mosque Communities in Supporting Muslims with Mental Illness: Results of CBPR-oriented Focus Groups in the Bay Area, California |
title_short | Role of Mosque Communities in Supporting Muslims with Mental Illness: Results of CBPR-oriented Focus Groups in the Bay Area, California |
title_sort | role of mosque communities in supporting muslims with mental illness: results of cbpr-oriented focus groups in the bay area, california |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9628571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36322232 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11126-022-10002-x |
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