When a community mental health nurse focuses on intervention strategies designed to increase self-efficacy among members of a minority neighborhood group, a realistic primary prevention goal would be:
a. elimination of mental illness in the community.
b. resolving social problems within the community.
c. reducing both stressors and suffering in the group.
d. reducing the incidence of depression in the group.
D
Primary prevention is aimed at reducing the incidence of mental illness. Depression is a frequent outcome of low self-efficacy. Therefore a goal of intervention to raise self-efficacy is to reduce the incidence of depression in the group.
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