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Cultural perceptions of weight in african american and caucasian women.
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PMID:  22943096     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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OBJECTIVE: To determine if African American (AA) and Caucasian women grouped variables related to race and weight into discrete clusters and if there were discernable response patterns with unique subgroup characteristics.
METHODS: Women (N=277, 48% AA) completed a card sorting task, ranking 28 variables. We used multidimensional scaling to determine perceived similarities and differences between variables, and latent class analysis to identify subgroups responding similarly.
RESULTS: We identified 5 clusters of variables and 4 response patterns, which were demographically and anthropometrically distinct.
CONCLUSIONS: These results can be used for empirical cultural tailoring of behavioral weight loss interventions.
Authors:
Jamy D Ard; Christie Zunker; Haiyan Qu; Tiffany Cox; Brooks Wingo; Wendy Jefferson; Richard Shewchuk
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  American journal of health behavior     Volume:  37     ISSN:  1945-7359     ISO Abbreviation:  Am J Health Behav     Publication Date:  2013 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-09-04     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9602338     Medline TA:  Am J Health Behav     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  3-13     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. ardj@uab.edu.
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