Segmented assimilation theory and obesity: A test among US Latino adults

分段同化理论和肥胖：对美国拉丁裔成年人的测试

• 批准号: 7843601
• 负责人: Karen Rocio Florez
• 金额: $ 1.38万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-02 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7843601
• 关键词: Acculturation; Adopted; Adult; Affect; American; Asian Americans; Asians; Assimilations; Behavior; Belief; Blood Pressure; Body Weight Changes; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cause of Death; Characteristics; Cluster Analysis; Communities; Country; Data; Diabetes Mellitus; Economically Deprived Population; Economics; Education; Elements; Environment; Exercise; Future; Goals; Health; Health Planning; Health Surveys; Health behavior; Height; High Prevalence; Hispanics; Household; Immigrant; Income; Latino; Life; Literature; Low income; Measurement; Mediating; Minority; Minority Groups; Neighborhoods; Obesity; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Population; Poverty; Prevalence; Probability Samples; Process; Public Health; Relative (related person); Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Risk Factors; Series; Social support; Societies; Specific qualifier value; Surveys; Testing; United States; Weight; cardiovascular risk factor; cohesion; design; ethnic minority population; experience; novel; obesity risk; public health relevance; social; solidarity; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity has been established as a major risk factor for cardiovascular conditions distinctly affecting the Latino population in the United States. Recent data not only shows that Latinos have higher rates of obesity relative to non-Latino Whites, but that the socio-cultural determinants of obesity and obesity-related conditions (e.g., elevated blood pressure, diabetes) are uniquely different among Latinos. Indeed, the prevalence of obesity in this population has been increasingly associated with acculturation, or the process by which immigrants espouse the norms and beliefs of the majority culture. However, research findings are often fraught with methodological problems, atheoretical approaches, and controversies. Therefore, the long term objective of this project is to contribute to the cardiovascular risk-factor literature by elucidating the relationship between obesity and acculturation among Latinos. To that end, the project will utilize the main tenets of segmented assimilation theory by testing whether different modes of incorporation into American society predict obesity patterns among Latino adults. Using 2002-2003 data from the National Latino and Asian American Survey, the project will first conduct a series of explorative cluster analyzes to examine whether modes of incorporation, defined in terms of income, education, and ethnic affiliation, fit distinct patterns predicted by segmented assimilation theory (e.g., underclass, classic assimilation, or segmented assimilation mode). Then, the project will aim to explore whether obesity varies with segmented assimilation's patterns of incorporation (i.e. underclass, classic, segmented assimilation), and/or any other patterns of assimilation. Finally, because segmented assimilation theory recognizes the importance of the lived environment in the assimilation experience of most immigrant groups, the project will test the extent to which features in the neighborhood context (e.g., level of social cohesion, proportion of Latinos), mediate the relationship between mode of incorporation and obesity. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Taken together, exploring obesity in relation to the process of acculturation is highly relevant to the future public health planning of the United States because cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death in the nation. Moreover, Latinos are the largest ethnic minority group in the country and they suffer from a disproportionate burden of obesity and other CVD risk factors (e.g., diabetes). Also, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is largely composed of immigrants (65.2%), which illustrate in part, the importance of considering acculturation in research on the health of Latinos.

描述（由申请人提供）：肥胖已被确定为心血管疾病的主要危险因素，从而明显影响美国拉丁裔人口。最近的数据不仅表明，拉丁美洲人相对于非拉丁裔白人具有较高的肥胖率，而且是肥胖和肥胖相关条件的社会文化决定因素（例如，血压升高，糖尿病）在拉丁美洲裔中截然不同。的确，该人群中肥胖症的普遍性与适应性的越来越多，或者移民拥护多数文化的规范和信念的过程。但是，研究发现通常充满了方法论问题，理论方法和争议。因此，该项目的长期目标是通过阐明拉丁美洲裔肥胖与适应性之间的关系来为心血管风险因素文献做出贡献。为此，该项目将通过测试如何在美国社会中预测拉丁裔成年人中的肥胖模式来利用分段同化理论的主要原则。该项目使用2002 - 2003年的2002 - 2003年数据，该项目将首先进行一系列探索性集群分析，以检查是否根据收入，教育和种族隶属关系定义的融合模式是否拟合，拟合通过细分中的同化理论预测的不同模式（例如，经典，经典同化，同化，或分裂模式）。然后，该项目旨在探索肥胖症是否随分段同化的掺入模式（即，阶层，经典，分割的同化）和/或任何其他同化模式而变化。最后，由于分割的同化理论认识到生物环境在大多数移民群体的同化经验中的重要性，因此该项目将测试邻里环境中的特征（例如，社会凝聚程度，拉丁美洲人的比例），介导结构和肥胖方式之间的关系。公共卫生相关性：共同探索与适应过程有关的肥胖症与美国未来的公共卫生计划高度相关，因为心血管疾病仍然是全国死亡的主要原因。此外，拉丁美洲人是该国最大的少数民族群体，他们遭受肥胖和其他CVD危险因素（例如糖尿病）的不成比例负担。同样，美国拉丁美洲人的人口主要由移民组成（65.2％），部分说明了在拉丁美洲人健康研究中考虑适应性的重要性。