title: The meanings of emotional ailments in a marginalized community in Mexico City.
abstract: The population's conceptions about health are crucial to the development of any intervention strategy in the field of public health. We are interested in describing the sense adult inhabitants confer on emotional ailments in daily life. We used the Theory of Social Representations as a framework of reference and a multimethod perspective, which will enable us to recover the subjective experience of participants in the study, not only regarding emotional suffering, but also as a means of incorporating their perceptions of pleasurable states into their everyday lives. Finally, we discuss our findings, taking into account the implications of using various methodological strategies to obtain a more integral health approach that proved extremely useful for identifying the felt needs of the population and proposing their inclusion in mental health care programs.
authors.affiliation: Health Offices of Epidemiological and Social Research, Nacional Institute of Psychiatry Dr. Ramon de la Fuente Muñíz, Mexico City, Mexico. morarj@imp.edu.mx
authors.forename: Jazmín
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mora-Ríos
authors.forename: Maria Elena
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Medina-Mora
authors.forename: Emily Ito
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: Guillermina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Natera
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D011204:Poverty Areas