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| Ethnic variation in attitudes toward hypertension in adults ages 75 and older | | Author(s) | Jorge A Onitveros, Sandra A Black, Patricia L Jakobi |
| Journal title | Preventive Medicine, vol 29, no 6, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 443-449 |
| Keywords | Hypertension ; Attitude ; Screening ; Ethnic groups ; Over 70s ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data for this study were part of a survey of 507 older (over 75) community-dwelling residents in Galveston County, Texas from 1995 to 1996. African Americans were more likely to attribute hypertension to health behaviours and stress. In contrast, Hispanic Americans were more likely to consider disease a normal part of ageing, whereas non-Hispanic whites were more likely to attribute hypertension to heredity or mechanistic causes. Non-Hispanic whites were less likely to perceive hypertension as preventable, whereas Hispanic Americans were less likely to feel that hypertension was treatable. The odds of having a primary care physician, blood pressure checked, or glaucoma checked were lower among older African-Americans and Hispanic Americans than older non-Hispanic whites. Ethnic differences regarding hypertension were evident in this sample of older people. In addition, attitudes regarding the cause and treatment of hypertension were found to be associated with both the use and the underuse of preventive health services in all three ethnic groups. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000512204 A |
| Classmark | CQQ: DP: 3V: TK: BBK: 7T * |
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