Vulnerable population and self-awareness paper

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Vulnerable population and self-awareness paper Biases among the healthcare personnel calls for self-awareness in order for them to understand how such biases affect delivery of healthcare to vulnerable groups such as mentally ill. Self-awareness is a conscious process that creates personal understanding. It enables them to determine their strengths and limitations, emotional understanding and their behavior with others in a mental health environment. Development of self-awareness enables the health providers to take control of situations. This provides a genuine, authentic and honest presentation of the mental healthcare nurses (Tusaie, 2013). The vulnerable group to be discussed is the depressed mentally ill population. Depression is a chronic disease that significantly affects American’s health and productivity.
Demographics of the depressed Depression affects over 21 million people, including children and adults in America. It is the leading major cause of disability for people in the age of between 15 and 44. This is according to the report of the Mental Health America and Thomson Healthcare. More so, depression with anxiety is experienced by approximately 9.6% of Americans and 2.6% without anxiety. The prevalence of mixed anxiety and depressive disorder is relatively more in women than in men. Overall, occurrence of depression is 1 in every 10 adults at a given time. Further, almost one in 20 people at a particular time experience major depression. Depression is also diagnosed more among people in a low socio-economic level. Those with medical illness such as disease of coronary heart, diabetes, and asthma are more vulnerable to experience depression (Tusaie, 2013).

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