Gender, acculturative stress and Caribbean immigrants health in the United States of America: an exploratory study

Livingston, Ivor Lensworth; Neita, M; Riviere, Lyndon A.; Livingston, S L

doi:10.1590/s0043-31442007000300004

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“…Some researchers have studied loneliness amongst immigrants but have not drawn comparisons with either 'native born' minority communities or the general population as illustrated by the work of Ponizovsky and Ritsner (2004) who studied loneliness amongst Russian migrants to Israel using the UCLA loneliness scale and reported a mean score of 43.2. Researchers in the United States have reported levels of loneliness for migrant elders including AfricanCaribbean (Livingstone et al 2007), Hispanic (Friis 2000) and Korean elders (Kim 1999). Friis (2000) reported that 24% of Hispanics aged 65 and older experienced loneliness and Livingstone et al (2007) reported the mean loneliness scores for Caribbean migrants of 1.86 using a 5 point scale.…”

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“…Researchers in the United States have reported levels of loneliness for migrant elders including AfricanCaribbean (Livingstone et al 2007), Hispanic (Friis 2000) and Korean elders (Kim 1999). Friis (2000) reported that 24% of Hispanics aged 65 and older experienced loneliness and Livingstone et al (2007) reported the mean loneliness scores for Caribbean migrants of 1.86 using a 5 point scale. Kim (1999) used the 20 item UCLA loneliness scale, which has a range of 20-80 with no accepted cut-off point characterising loneliness, with Korean women migrants.…”

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Loneliness and Ethnic Minority Elders in Great Britain: An Exploratory Study

Victor

Burholt

Martin

2012

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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Loneliness, which describes the deficit between an individuals' expectation of the quality and/or quantity of social relationships and the actuality, is associated with poor quality of life, negative health outcomes and, in some cases, increased use of statutory services. Within Great Britain few studies have examined the prevalence of loneliness amongst older people from ethnic minorities. In this exploratory study we consider the prevalence of loneliness amongst older people, those aged 65 years and over, from the key minority groups growing old in Britain (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, African Caribbean, and Chinese) and draw explicit comparisons for these groups with the prevalence of loneliness reported for the general population and with older people in their countries of origin. We use two data sources: the Ethnicity and Loneliness Survey, a study of 300 minority elders aged 65+ living in the community, provides our prevalence estimates and secondary analysis of a study of 169 South Asian elders (aged 65+) undertaken in Birmingham to validate our prevalence rates for the Indian and Bangladeshi populations. We identified very high rates of reported loneliness, ranging from 24% to 50% amongst for those elders originating from China, Africa, the Caribbean, Pakistan and Bangladesh whilst those from India approximated to the norms of 8-10% for Britain. These results suggest that it is feasible to research loneliness amongst minority communities in Britain; that the levels of loneliness are, with the exception of the Indian population, very much higher than for the general population but are broadly comparable with rates of loneliness reported for older people in their countries of origin. There is a rich research agenda to be developed in extending our understanding of loneliness in later life amongst the increasingly culturally and ethnically diverse older population of Great Britain.

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Loneliness and Ethnic Minority Elders in Great Britain: An Exploratory Study

Victor

Burholt

Martin

2012

J Cross Cult Gerontol

138

118

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“…A este conjunto de cambios se le ha denominado aculturación (Berry, 2006a). Por su parte, el estrés originado y resultante directamente del proceso de aculturación es denominado estrés por aculturación (o estrés aculturativo) (Arbona et al, 2010;Hovey, 1999;Livingston, Neita, Riviere, & Livingston, 2007), concepto introducido por John W. Berry en la década de los 70 como una alternativa al concepto de "shock cultural", dadas las connotaciones negativas de la mención shock, a diferencia de estrés, que puede variar de lo positivo a lo negativo (Berry, 2006a(Berry, , 2006bOrozco, 2013).…”

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“…Sus síntomas incluyen sentimientos de aislamiento, rechazo, ansiedad, enfermedades psicosomáticas y depresión (Arbona et al, 2010;Bekteshi & Van Hook, 2015;Finch, Frank, & Vega, 2004). Entre los factores desencadenantes del estrés por aculturación pueden incluirse estresores interpersonales, tales como cambios en los roles de género según la cultura, variación en el funcionamiento familiar, conflictos intergeneracionales, pérdida de apoyo social y familiar (Arbona et al, 2010;Bekteshi & Van Hook, 2015;Collazos, Qureshi, Antonín, & Tomás-Sábado, 2008;Livingston et al, 2007;Orozco, 2013). También se encuentran los estresores instrumentales y ambientales, los cuales están relacionados con los bienes y servicios necesarios para la vida cotidiana como tener empleo y vivienda, el dominio lingüístico, el acceso a salud y educación (Chun, Balls Organista, & Marín, 2003;Ward et al, 2001;Zlobina, Basabe, Páez, & Furnham, 2006).…”

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Afrontamiento del estrés por aculturación: inmigrantes latinos en Chile

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Las minorías migrantes afrontan el estrés aculturativo con respuestas conductuales y cognitivas. Las fuentes de estrés de aculturación incluyen la discriminación, las diferencias socioculturales, la añoranza del origen y la ruptura familiar. Se entrevistaron a 853 inmigrantes peruanos y colombianos en Chile (51% mujeres, y edad M = 33.19; DE = 9.54). Se aplicaron escalas de estrés de aculturación y formas de afrontamiento. La distancia y añoranza familiar fue la principal fuente de estrés siendo mayor entre los colombianos, quienes usan más la movilidad individual, la distracción y las comparaciones sociales, mientras los peruanos internalizan más el estigma del inmigrante. Las comparaciones intergrupales y temporales se relacionaron con menor estrés de aculturación. Se discute la importancia de las formas de afrontar el estrés en minorías migrantes.

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“…At the same time, it is believed that as many as 22 million individuals of Caribbean heritage reside in the US, primarily along the eastern seaboard [25] It is estimated that Caribbean immigrants account for 9.6% of the population that is foreign born [26].…”

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Advancing Cultural Competencies: Applying the Dietary Exchange List System to Jamaican Foods

Goldschmidt¹,

Sankavaram²,

Udahogora³

2018

Health Sci J

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The relationship between diet and a number of chronic health conditions has been well established. One of the most widely utilized tools for mediating this relationship is carbohydrate counting and dietary exchange systems. At the same time, nutrition and dietetics professionals have begun to stress the importance of cultural competency by encouraging all professionals to develop a comfort level with the ethnic, religious and contextual background of their patients. This paper is intended to support that movement by introducing nutrition professionals to the most common Jamaican foods as interpreted through the exchange list system. Across the entire Caribbean, trends have demonstrated increasing rates of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) accompanied by elevated rates of obesity. At present in Jamaica, T2DM is the second most common non-communicable chronic disease. Rates among immigrants and individuals of Jamaican heritage in the United States are unknown but are believed to mirror these trends. Understanding the food choices of this population will be vital to providing appropriate and meaningful nutrition treatment options. This paper addresses an important need and serves as a model for how to introduce other cultural traditions in cuisine to professionals in the fields of nutrition and dietetics.

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Gender, acculturative stress and Caribbean immigrants health in the United States of America: an exploratory study

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Loneliness and Ethnic Minority Elders in Great Britain: An Exploratory Study

Loneliness and Ethnic Minority Elders in Great Britain: An Exploratory Study

Afrontamiento del estrés por aculturación: inmigrantes latinos en Chile

Advancing Cultural Competencies: Applying the Dietary Exchange List System to Jamaican Foods

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Gender, acculturative stress and Caribbean immigrants health in the United States of America: an exploratory study

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Loneliness and Ethnic Minority Elders in Great Britain: An Exploratory Study

Loneliness and Ethnic Minority Elders in Great Britain: An Exploratory Study

Afrontamiento del estrés por aculturación: inmigrantes latinos en Chile

Advancing Cultural Competencies: Applying the Dietary Exchange List System to Jamaican Foods

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Gender, acculturative stress and Caribbean immigrants health in the United States of America: an exploratory study