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- Title
Acculturation and Its Relationship to Smoking and Breast Self-Examination Frequency in African American Women.
- Authors
Guevarra, Josephine; Kwate, Naa; Tang, Tricia; Valdimarsdottir, Heiddis; Freeman, Harold; Bovbjerg, Dana
- Abstract
The concept of acculturation has been used to understand differences in health behaviors between and within a variety of racial and ethnic immigrant groups. Few studies, however, have examined the potential impact of acculturation on health behaviors among African Americans. The present study has two goals: 1) to reconfirm relations between acculturation and cigarette smoking; 2) to investigate the impact of acculturation on another type of health behavior, cancer screening and specifically breast self-examination (BSE). African American women (N= 66) attending an inner-city cancer-screening clinic completed study questionnaires. Results reconfirmed psychometric properties of the African American Acculturation Scale (AAAS); replicated the negative association between acculturation and lifetime smoking status; and found relations between acculturation and women’s adherence to BSE frequency guidelines. Findings from this study raise the possibility that specific aspects of acculturation may better explain specific health behaviors.
- Subjects
ACCULTURATION; SMOKING; MEDICAL self-examination; AFRICAN American women; TOBACCO use; AMERICAN women; PREVENTIVE medicine
- Publication
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2005, Vol 28, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
0160-7715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10865-005-3668-z