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Perceived Feasibility, Acceptability, and Cultural Adaptation for a Mental Health Intervention in Rural Haiti
Mental healthcare is largely unavailable throughout Haiti, particularly in rural areas. The aim of the current study is to explore perceived feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of potential culturally adapted interventions to improve mental health among Haitian women. The study used focus group discussions (n = 12) to explore five potential interventions to promote mental health: individual counseling, income-generating skills training, peer support groups, reproductive health education, and couples' communication training. Findings indicate that individual counseling, support group, and skills training components were generally anticipated to be effective, acceptable, and feasible by both male and female participants. That being said, participants expressed doubts regarding the acceptability of the couples' communication training and reproductive health education due to: a perceived lack of male interest, traditional male and female gender roles, lack of female autonomy, and misconceptions about family planning. Additionally, the feasibility, effectiveness, and acceptability of the components were described as dependent on cost, proximity to participants, and inclusion of a female health promoter that is known in the community. Given the lack of research on intervention approaches in Haiti, particularly those targeting mental health, this study provides a foundation for developing prevention and treatment approaches for mental distress among Haitian women
Fly Light Split-GAL4 Driver Collection
<p>The data presented on this site are the work of the <a href="http://janelia.org/team-project/fly-light" target="_blank">Janelia FlyLight Project Team</a> and the laboratories of <a href="http://www.janelia.org/lab/rubin-lab" target="_blank">Gerald M. Rubin</a>. </p><p>The split-GAL4 lines can be requested from the Janelia fly facility by performing a search and adding the desired lines to your cart. You will then be able to use the FlyBank website to tell us where to send them. For additional help ordering lines, please contact us at <a href="mailto:flybank.janelia.org">flybank.janelia.org</a></p><p>In publications, please attribute the data presented on this site to one of the following papers, as follows: <br><br>For the overall strategy and methods used to produce the split-GAL4 lines for the mushroom body neurons: <br>Aso, Y., Hattori, D., Yu, Y., Johnston, R. M., Iyer, N., Ngo, T. B., Dionne, H., Abbott, L. F., Axel, R., Tanimoto, H. & Rubin, G. M. . The neuronal architecture of the mushroom body provides a logic for associative learning. <a href="http://elifesciences.org/content/3/e04577" target="_blank">eLife (2014) 3:e04577</a><br><br>For split-GAL4 lines for the Lobula Columnar (LC) visual projection neurons:<br>Wu, M., Nern, A., Williamson, W. R., Morimoto, M. M., Reiser, M. B., Card, G. M. & Rubin, G. M. Visual projection neurons in the Drosophila lobula link feature detection to distinct behavioral programs. under review<br><br>For refinement of the split-GAL4 vectors and methodology: <br>Pfeiffer, B. D., Ngo, T. T., Hibbard, K. L., Murphy, C., Jenett, A., Truman, J. W. & Rubin, G. M. Refinement of tools for targeted gene expression in Drosophila. <a href="http://www.genetics.org/content/186/2/735.long" target="_blank">Genetics (2010) 186: 735-55</a>. <br><br>For Multicolor Flp-out (MCFO) technique and single cell labeling:<br>Nern, A., Pfeiffer, B.D., and Rubin, G.M. Optimized tools for multicolor stochastic labeling reveal diverse stereotyped cell arrangements in the fly visual system. <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/112/22/E2967.long" target="_blank">Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2015) 112: E2967-2976</a>. <br><br>Split-GAL4 lines were designed based on the expression patterns of GAL4 driver lines in the adult nervous system: <br>The Janelia collection of lines is described in Jenett, A., Rubin, G.M., Ngo, T.-T. B., Shepherd, D., Murphy, C., Dionne, H., Pfeiffer, B.D., Cavallaro, A., Hall, D., Jeter, J., Iyer, N., Fetter, D., Hausenfluck, J.H., Peng, H., Trautman, E., Svirskas, R., Myers, G.W., Iwinski, Z.R., Aso, Y., DePasquale, G.M., Enos, A., Hulamm, P., Lam, S.C.B., Li, H-H., Laverty, T., Long, F., Qu, L., Murphy, S.D., Rokicki, K., Safford, T., Shaw, K., Simpson, J.H., Sowell, A., Tae, S., Yu, Y., Zugates, C.T. A GAL4-Driver Line Resource for Drosophila Neurobiology. <a href="http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(12)00292-6" target="_blank">Cell Reports (2012) 2: 991-1001</a> <br><br>The VT collection of lines is described in Kvon, E.Z., Kazmar, T., Stampfel, G., Yanez-Cuna, J.O., Pagani, M., Schernhuber, K., Dickson, B.J., and Stark, A. Genome-scale functional characterization of Drosophila developmental enhancers in vivo. <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13395.html" target="_blank">Nature (2014) 512: 91-95</a> and Barry J. Dickson, unpublished data. <br><br>For opening and viewing h5j and LSM stacks:<br>Use <a href="http://fiji.sc/" target="_blank">Fiji</a> (<a href="http://fiji.sc/" target="_blank">http://fiji.sc</a>). Fiji has a built-in plugin (H5J_Loader_Plugin-1.0.4) for opening stack in h5j format, a "visually lossless" compression format.</p