ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2016
Healthcare Stereotype Threat in Older Adults in the Health and Retirement Study.
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- Health Care Stereotype Threat During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals.American journal of public health · 2025Article
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- Differences and Disparities in Ageism Affecting Older US Adults: A Review.Current epidemiology reports · 2023Article
- Sexual identity factors and minority stressors associated with healthcare stereotype threat and access to care among Black sexual minority women.Journal of gay & lesbian social services · 2023Article
- "Why Would I Talk To Them About Sex?": Exploring Patient-Provider Communication Among Black Women Experiencing Sexual Pain.Qualitative health research · 2022Article
- Healthcare Stereotype Threat and Health Outcomes Among LGB Individuals.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Article
- Racial and oral health equity in dental school curricula.Journal of public health dentistry · 2022Article
- Health inequities and the inappropriate use of race in nephrology.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2022Review
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adult Vaccination: A Review of the State of Evidence.Health equity · 2022Review
- The Patient's Point of View: Characterizing Patient-Level Factors Associated with Perceptions of Health Care.Health equity · 2021Article
- Examining "race" in physiology.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2020Article
- The Applied Implications of Age-Based Stereotype Threat for Older Adults.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2020Article
- Assessment of Racial Disparities in Mortality Rates Among Older Adults Living in US Rural vs Urban Counties From 1968 to 2016.JAMA network open · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionHealthcare stereotype threat is the threat of being personally reduced to group stereotypes that commonly operate within the healthcare domain, including stereotypes regarding unhealthy lifestyles and inferior intelligence. The objective of this study was to assess the extent to which people fear being judged in healthcare contexts on several characteristics, including race/ethnicity and age, and to test predictions that experience of such threats would be connected with poorer health and negative perceptions of health care.
methodsData were collected as part of the 2012 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). A module on healthcare stereotype threat, designed by the research team, was administered to a random subset (n=2,048 of the total 20,555) of HRS participants. The final sample for the present healthcare stereotype threat experiment consists of 1,479 individuals. Logistic regression was used to test whether healthcare stereotype threat was associated with self-rated health, reported hypertension, and depressive symptoms, as well as with healthcare-related outcomes, including physician distrust, dissatisfaction with health care, and preventative care use.
resultsSeventeen percent of respondents reported healthcare stereotype threat with respect to one or more aspects of their identities. As predicted, healthcare stereotype threat was associated with higher physician distrust and dissatisfaction with health care, poorer mental and physical health (i.e., self-rated health, hypertension, and depressive symptoms), and lower odds of receiving the influenza vaccine.
conclusionsThe first of its kind, this study demonstrates that people can experience healthcare stereotype threat on the basis of various stigmatized aspects of social identity, and that these experiences can be linked with larger health and healthcare-related outcomes, thereby contributing to disparities among minority groups.
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