Acculturation and its relationship to smoking and breast self-examination frequency in African American women

Josephine S. Guevarra; Naa Oyo A. Kwate; Tricia S. Tang; Heiddis B. Valdimarsdottir; Harold P. Freeman; Dana H. Bovbjerg

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Acculturation and its relationship to smoking and breast self-examination frequency in African American women

Josephine S. Guevarra, Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Tricia S. Tang, Heiddis B. Valdimarsdottir, Harold P. Freeman, Dana H. Bovbjerg

Department of Psychology

Reykjavik University

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	191-199
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Volume	28
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-005-3668-z
Publication status	Published - Apr 2005

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Funding Information: Gratefully acknowledged are the financial support of research grants from the National Cancer Institute (ROI #CA72457), the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) American Psychological Association (#NIMH 5732 MHI5742), post doctoral training grants from the United States Army (#DAMD 17-99-9303) and the National Cancer Institute (#R25CA81137), and a career development award from the United States Army (#DAMD 17-96-1-6293). We are required to indicate that the views, opinions and findings contained in this report are those of the authors and should not be construed as an official Department of Defense position, policy or decision unless so designated by other documentation.

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African American
Breast self exam
Smoking

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