Date of Award

Fall 12-2024

Document Type

Capstone

Degree Name

Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD)

Department

Occupational Therapy

First Advisor

Steven M. Gerardi, PhD, OTD, MSS, OTR, Doctoral Capstone Coordinator

Second Advisor

Eric Hicks, PhD, MS, OTR, Academic Program Director

Medical Subject Headings

Grandparents, Caregivers, Texas, Depression, Social media, Occupations

Abstract

This paper presents a doctoral capstone project that created and implemented a self-help occupation-based educational video series to prevent and manage depression among grandparent caregivers. It consists of a literature review regarding the impact of depression on grandparent caregivers, the population’s barriers and statistics relating to the correlation of developing depression as a grandparent caregiver. It includes the process to create the video series including review of the literature and the development process. Texas Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (TXGRG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing resources and support to empower and advocate for grandparent caregivers. Problem: There is a lack of mental health resources, especially self-help approaches, for grandparents assuming the role of caregiver for their grandchildren. TXGRG does not have a mental health resource of their own that addresses depression for individuals to access and utilize. Purpose: The purpose of this project was to create an educational online video series for TXGRG on an occupation-based self-help approach for grandparents to prevent and/or manage depression. The creation of this capstone project fills the need for an accessible preventive mental health resource for TXGRG and the grandparent caregiver community. This paper presents the outline and scripts for the video series, the links to the YouTube channel and playlist of the video series, and a discussion of its implications of the video series to the target population.

Comments

Capstone project submitted to the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Occupational Therapy.

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