ArticleSubstance use & misuse2016
Substance Abuse Among Blacks Across the Diaspora.
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- Health Risk Behaviours by Immigrants' Duration of Residence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of public health · 2022Pooled it
- The Health of First Generation Caribbeans Across the Diaspora: Findings from 2000-2005 Population Data Surveys from Guyana, Jamaica, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Similarities and Differences in Alcohol & Other Drug Dependence Among Hispanic/Latino Subgroups: A Disaggregation Approach.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
- Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders and Related Service Use in the Diverse Black Sub-Populations in the United States.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- Black Nativity and Health Disparities: A Research Paradigm for Understanding the Social Determinants of Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Lifetime Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among African Americans and Black Caribbeans by Sex and Ethnicity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- National origins, social context, timing of migration and the physical and mental health of Caribbeans living in and outside of Canada.Ethnicity & health · 2022Article
- Socioeconomic Disparities and Self-reported Substance Abuse-related Problems.Addiction & health · 2018Article
- Characterizing Blunt Use Among Twitter Users: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Use Patterns and Characteristics.Substance use & misuse · 2018Article
- Relationship of social and economic factors to mental disorders among population-based samples of Jamaicans and Guyanese.BMJ open · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundLower rates of substance abuse are found among Black Americans compared to Whites, but little is known about differences in substance abuse across ethnic groups within the black population.
objectivesWe examined prevalence rates of substance abuse among Blacks across three geographic regions (US, Jamaica, Guyana). The study also sought to ascertain whether length of time, national context and major depressive episodes (MDE) were associated with substance abuse.
methodsWe utilized three different data sources based upon probability samples collected in three different countries. The samples included 3,570 African Americans and 1,621 US Caribbean Black adults from the 2001-2003 National Survey of American Life (NSAL). An additional 1,142 Guyanese Blacks and 1,176 Jamaican Blacks living in the Caribbean region were included from the 2005 NSAL replication extension study, Family Connections Across Generations and Nations (FCGN). Mental disorders were based upon DSM-IV criteria. For the analysis, we used descriptive statistics, chi-square, and multivariate logistic regression analytic procedures.
resultsPrevalence of substance abuse varied by national context, with higher rates among Blacks within the United States compared to the Caribbean region. Rates of substance abuse were lower overall for women, but differ across cohorts by nativity and length of time in the United States, and in association with major depressive episode.
conclusionsThe study highlights the need for further examination of how substance abuse disparities between US-based and Caribbean-based populations may become manifested.
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