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Elizabeth Esparza; Amy Bohnert, PhD; Jacob Marshall; and Natalia Hajnas traveled to Honduras to conduct research about mental health. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Research from the ground up
Mental health research takes students from the Lake Shore Campus to Honduras
in March of this year. They had spent the year coming up with a research proposal to examine depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and spiritual- ity among rural Hondurans and forging connec- tions that would help get them into Honduras. “Virtually nothing is known about these
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t was the culmination of a year of work when seniors Natalia Hajnas, Jacob Marshall, Elizabeth Esparza, and as- sociate professor of clinical psychology Amy Bohnert, PhD, went to Honduras
issues including by those who are providing medical care for these patients,” says Bohnert. Hajnas and Marshall have worked in
Bohnert’s lab since their freshman year. The idea for the project was Hajnas’s. She had been on several Global Medical Brigades trips in the past (two in Panama and one in Honduras) and was looking for a way to do more for the people the organization serves. “The one thing that stood out to me was
pain and why people experience it,“ Hajnas says. “It’s not always physical. What if physi- cal pain was exacerbated by mental illness or stress?” Marshall had also gone on a Global Brigades trip, and, like Hajnas, he believes that health should be looked at from a physical and a mental angle.
Natalia Hajnas (right) conducts a survey about mental health and spirituality in Honduras.
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