Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the performance of proxy measures of acculturation and to examine the association between acculturation and selected health-risk behaviors. Methods: Participants were 1062 Latina pregnant women who received prenatal care at clinics in San Joaquin County, California between 1999 and 2001. We used the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve to characterize the sensitivity and specificity of proxy measures and regression analysis to examine health-risk behaviors. Results: Using the ARSMA-II short version scale as a reference, age at immigration had the highest percentage of correctly classified individuals. Acculturation was significantly associated with a lifetime history of substance use, risky sexual behavior, low fruit consumption, and high fast-food meal consumption. Conclusions: Acculturation is an important predictor of health-risk behavior among women. Further research is needed to better understand the phenomenon and to avert associated adverse health consequences.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 733-739 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Ethnicity and Disease |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - Sep 2005 |
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Keywords
- Acculturation
- Behaviors
- Health-risk
- Latinas
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Medicine(all)
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Acculturation and its association with health-risk behaviors in a rural Latina population. / Kasirye, Olivia C.; Walsh, Julia A.; Romano, Patrick S; Beckett, Laurel A; Garcia, Jorge A; Elvine-Kreis, Brenda; Bethel, Jeffrey W.; Schenker, Marc B.
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AU - Kasirye, Olivia C.
AU - Walsh, Julia A.
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AU - Garcia, Jorge A
AU - Elvine-Kreis, Brenda
AU - Bethel, Jeffrey W.
AU - Schenker, Marc B
PY - 2005/9
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N2 - Purpose: To evaluate the performance of proxy measures of acculturation and to examine the association between acculturation and selected health-risk behaviors. Methods: Participants were 1062 Latina pregnant women who received prenatal care at clinics in San Joaquin County, California between 1999 and 2001. We used the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve to characterize the sensitivity and specificity of proxy measures and regression analysis to examine health-risk behaviors. Results: Using the ARSMA-II short version scale as a reference, age at immigration had the highest percentage of correctly classified individuals. Acculturation was significantly associated with a lifetime history of substance use, risky sexual behavior, low fruit consumption, and high fast-food meal consumption. Conclusions: Acculturation is an important predictor of health-risk behavior among women. Further research is needed to better understand the phenomenon and to avert associated adverse health consequences.
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