ArticleAmerican journal of health behavior2014
Discrimination, affect, and cancer risk factors among African Americans.
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- Racial disparities in healthcare and health.Health services research · 2022Article
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- Anxiety Sensitivity and Fast-Food Ordering Habits Among Black Adults.Health behavior research · 2021Article
- Psychosocial Stressors, Depression, and Physical Activity among African Americans.American journal of health behavior · 2019Article
- Multiple Health Behaviors Engagement in an African American Cohort: Clustering Patterns and Correlates.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2019Article
- Characterizing Discrimination Experiences by Race among Homeless Adults.American journal of health behavior · 2019Article
- Perceived Discrimination as a Risk Factor for Use of Emerging Tobacco Products: More Similarities Than Differences Across Demographic Groups and Attributions for Discrimination.Substance use & misuse · 2018Article
- Anxiety sensitivity explains associations between anxious arousal symptoms and smoking abstinence expectancies, perceived barriers to cessation, and problems experienced during past quit attempts among low-income smokers.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2017Article
- HPV Awareness, Knowledge and Vaccination Attitudes among Church-going African-American Women.American journal of health behavior · 2016Article
- The Built Food Environment and Dietary Intake among African-American Adults.American journal of health behavior · 2016Article
- Psychosocial Mechanisms Linking the Social Environment to Mental Health in African Americans.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine whether stress or depressive symptoms mediated associations between perceived discrimination and multiple modifiable behavioral risk factors for cancer among 1363 African American adults.
methodsNonparametric bootstrapping procedures, adjusted for sociodemographics, were used to assess mediation.
resultsStress and depressive symptoms each mediated associations between discrimination and current smoking, and discrimination and the total number of behavioral risk factors for cancer. Depressive symptoms also mediated the association between discrimination and overweight/obesity (p values < .05).
conclusionsDiscrimination may influence certain behavioral risk factors for cancer through heightened levels of stress and depressive symptoms. Interventions to reduce cancer risk may need to address experiences of discrimination, as well as the stress and depression they engender.
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