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Racial differences in health concern.

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Voils, CI; Oddone, EZ; Weinfurt, KP; Friedman, JY; Bright, CM; Schulman, KA; Bosworth, HB
Published in: J Natl Med Assoc
January 2006
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An understanding of racial differences in risk-related affect may help explain racial differences in health behaviors and outcomes and provide additional opportunities for intervention. In phone interviews with a random community sample of 197 whites, 155 blacks and 163 Latinos, we assessed concern that respondents' health would be hurt by their diet, an inability to exercise, an inability to follow a doctor's recommendations and disease. A multivariate analysis of variance with follow-up profile analysis revealed that whites were less concerned than blacks and Latinos about an inability to follow their doctors' recommendations (ps < 0.01). There were no racial differences in the other health concern variables. Interventions to inform blacks and Latinos about their health risks must strike a balance between creating enough health concern to encourage health behavior but not so much that it interferes with health-promoting behaviors.

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Eugene Zaverio Oddone
Author Eugene Zaverio Oddone Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Kevin Phillip Weinfurt
Author Kevin Phillip Weinfurt Population Health Sciences
Hayden Barry Bosworth
Author Hayden Barry Bosworth Population Health Sciences

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J Natl Med Assoc

ISSN

0027-9684

Publication Date

January 2006

Volume

98

Issue

1

Start / End Page

36 / 42

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • Public Health
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • North Carolina
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Hispanic or Latino
  • Female
  • Exercise
 

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Voils, C. I., Oddone, E. Z., Weinfurt, K. P., Friedman, J. Y., Bright, C. M., Schulman, K. A., & Bosworth, H. B. (2006). Racial differences in health concern. J Natl Med Assoc, 98(1), 36–42.
Voils, Corrine I., Eugene Z. Oddone, Kevin P. Weinfurt, Joëlle Y. Friedman, Cedric M. Bright, Kevin A. Schulman, and Hayden B. Bosworth. “Racial differences in health concern.” J Natl Med Assoc 98, no. 1 (January 2006): 36–42.
Voils CI, Oddone EZ, Weinfurt KP, Friedman JY, Bright CM, Schulman KA, et al. Racial differences in health concern. J Natl Med Assoc. 2006 Jan;98(1):36–42.
Voils, Corrine I., et al. “Racial differences in health concern.” J Natl Med Assoc, vol. 98, no. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 36–42.
Voils CI, Oddone EZ, Weinfurt KP, Friedman JY, Bright CM, Schulman KA, Bosworth HB. Racial differences in health concern. J Natl Med Assoc. 2006 Jan;98(1):36–42.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Natl Med Assoc

ISSN

0027-9684

Publication Date

January 2006

Volume

98

Issue

1

Start / End Page

36 / 42

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • Public Health
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • North Carolina
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Hispanic or Latino
  • Female
  • Exercise