ArticleInternational journal of men's health2017
Can Social Integration and Social Support Help to Explain Racial Disparities in Health Care Utilization Among Men with Diabetes?
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- Social support and medication adherence in type 2 diabetes: unraveling the sequential mediating pathways of empowerment and health literacy.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Making the connection: social networks and type 2 diabetes among Black/African American Men: mixed-methods study protocol.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis to Explore Diabetes Self-Care Factors in a Rural Sample.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Fatalism, Social Support and Self-Management Perceptions among Rural African Americans Living with Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2021Article
- Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management in Non-Hispanic Black Men: a Current State of the Literature.Current diabetes reports · 2019Review
- Complexity of Psychological and Behavioral Science in Diabetes: The 2025 Richard R. Rubin Award Lecture.Diabetes, obesity, and cardiometabolic CAREReview
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objectiveDiscovering the mechanisms through which racial and ethnic background influence health is critical to better understanding racial disparities in health among men with a diabetes diagnosis. The present study examines whether social support and social integration mediate or buffer the relationship between race and health care utilization among U.S. men.
methodThis study used a sub-sample from the 2001 National Health Interview Survey that included Latino, African American, non-Latino White men living with self-reported diabetes (
resultsFindings revealed that African American men with high levels of social integration were less likely to forego care (OR = 0.234, [CI = 0.053,1.045]). Also, African American men who did not attend church had higher odds of foregoing care (OR = 0.222, [CI = 0.110,0.448]).
conclusionsThe effect of social networks operate differently for African American men with diabetes compared to non-Latino white men. Identifying racial differences in the influence of social networks on health will assist in developing interventions that may help to decrease gender and race gaps in health for men with diabetes.
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