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- Title
Ethnicity, church affiliation and beliefs about the causal agents of health: a comparative study employing a multivariate analysis of covariance.
- Authors
Bekhuis, Tanja; Cook, Harold; Holt, Kathleen; Scott-Lennox, Jane; Lennox, Richard; Price, Laurie; Fryer, John G.
- Abstract
The article presents information on a study that investigated beliefs about causal agents for health and sickness among the economically and educationally disadvantaged who suffer from chronic health problems in the rural South of the U.S. Data for this study were obtained from the database of the Refinement of Arthritis Psychosocial Research Measures Project, a two-wave panel of low income, southern, rural men and women with rheumatic disease. The first assessment was conducted in 1987 and the follow-up in 1990. In conclusion, when researchers explore the relationship between specific health outcomes and beliefs, the effect of formal schooling needs to be investigated since schooling appears to be a powerful predictor of individual belief differences.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DELUSIONS; COMPARATIVE studies; ETHNIC groups; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; RHEUMATISM; RURAL Americans
- Publication
Health Education Research, 1995, Vol 10, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
0268-1153
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/her/10.1.73