Browsing by Author "Kading, Margarette L."

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    Case Study: Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating a One-Day Leadership Conference to Foster Women’s Leadership in Healthcare
    (University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, 2014) Fierke, Kerry K.; Kading, Margarette L.
    Despite women increasingly entering the healthcare field, they still face barriers to advancing in leadership ranks within healthcare. To address the need for leadership development among women in healthcare, the Center for Leading Healthcare Change (CLHC) at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy piloted a one-day conference in November 2012 entitled “Women Impacting Healthcare: Decide to Make a Difference.” This conference utilized an interactive agenda: each speaker’s presentation was followed by hands-on leadership activities during which attendees developed their own personal leadership visions. Specific leadership activities were designed to build upon one another and help design a leadership pathway. All activities were consistent as they included personal reflection and interaction with others. Attendees were asked to complete two evaluations, one immediately at the conclusion of the conference, and another two-weeks post. The conference committee achieved the goal of delivering the conference objectives. As the Women Impacting Healthcare committee continues to look for ways to develop leaders in healthcare, the focus of future conferences will also evolve to include the needs of women currently in leadership roles, as well as ways women can grow into leadership roles.
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    Positive Mental Health: A Concept Mapping Exploration
    (2015-07) Kading, Margarette L.
    American Indian (AI) people experience higher rates of depressive symptoms, psychological distress, and poor mental health than non-Native Americans. Despite a 17.1% prevalence of Anishinabe (an indigenous people who live in the Midwest of the United States and Canada) adults living with type 2 diabetes and meeting the PHQ-9 cutoff for depression, half (51.3%) of those surveyed were flourishing according to Keyes' Mental Health Continuum--Short Form (MHC-SF). A unique paradox appears to exist for AI people more so than that documented for other groups: despite historical trauma, various social stressors, ongoing marginalization, and depression and chronic diseases, a disproportionately large number of AI people met criteria for flourishing mental health. In order to better understand Anishinabe concepts of mental wellness and the utility of the MHC in this population, the specific aim of the study was to gain a deeper understanding of indigenous interpretations of positive mental health (PMH) by engaging in a group concept mapping session with Anishinabe community members from two communities. The resulting concept map varied somewhat from the three aspects of PMH presented in Keyes' MHC-SF (emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing). According to the map, PMH included the following clusters: 1) Values Gained with Maturity, 2) Motivated, 3) Traditional Spirituality/Culture, 4) Culturally Competent/Accept Others, 5) Take Care of Self, 6) Financial Health/Organized, 7) Ethical/Moral Leadership, 8) Community, and 9) Family/Relationships. Many of the clusters were related at least in part to the MHC-SF, but some differences were evident. Additionally, themes of harmony and balance, resilience and coping, and connection and interconnectedness, while not found in the MHC-SF, were prominent aspects in this concept map, lending support to their importance in indigenous PMH. Overall, the theme of interconnection is key to understanding the results of the concept map. The focus of this study fulfilled calls for strengths-based (as opposed to deficit-based) research for indigenous people. This was significant not only for better understanding Anishinabe perspectives of PMH, but also for understanding the ways in which all groups of people can learn lessons about PMH through cross-cultural research.