Hispanic Women's Preferences for Breast Health Information: Subjective Cultural Influences on Source, Message, and Channel

Oetzel, John; Vargas, Felicia De; Ginossar, Tamar; Sanchez, Christina

doi:10.1080/10410230701307550

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“…Which park the individual visited, his or her race/ethnicity, sex, and native language all significantly predicted external causal attribution (RQ2). While other individual-level variables not explored in this paper (e.g., risk perception) may also help explain variance in causal attribution, the data presented support the idea that attributions may not be universally held, but rather may vary on the basis of cultural background (Menon et al, 1999;Oetzel, DeVargas, Ginossar, & Sanchez, 2007). The differences observed provide some evidence that visitors may arrive with certain predefined assumptions about their role in ensuring their own safety, as well as tendencies toward making causal attributions-beliefs that may render them more or less receptive to park management and communication.…”

Section: Differences Within Groups: Experience and Beyondsupporting

confidence: 60%

Accidents and Accountability: Perceptions of Unintentional Injury in Three National Parks

Rickard

Newman

2014

Leisure Sciences

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Section: Differences Within Groups: Experience and Beyondsupporting

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Accidents and Accountability: Perceptions of Unintentional Injury in Three National Parks

Rickard

Newman

2014

Leisure Sciences

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“…Oetzel et al (81) studied the influence of independence and interdependence, ethnic identity (bicultural, assimilation, traditional, and marginal), and cultural health attributions (equity and behavioral-environmental attributions) on source, message, and channel preferences for receiving breast health information by middleaged or older Latinas. The researchers found that these three subjective cultural factors were significantly related to a variety of audience preferences in terms of source of communication, channels, and fear messages.…”

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Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

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Ayala

Parra‐Medina³

et al. 2009

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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With reference to the Communication-Persuasion model, we describe various research issues and challenges when considering the health of Latinos, and implications for designing and evaluating health communication and behavior change efforts in this population. Latinos, collectively the nation's largest minority group, vary substantially in terms of socioeconomic and legal status, their country of origin and the extent of ongoing contact with that country, their region of residence within the United States, their generation status and levels of acculturation, and psychosocial factors. Health communication efforts with Latinos need to focus on family, cultural traditions, and collectivism while attending to acculturation, language, generation and national origin. The most extensive intervention topic in Latino health promotion has been the application of the lay health advisor model. This and other fundamental communication approaches, as well as audience and population characteristics, need to be considered within the context of dynamic and complex societal changes. PART I: LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATESMany national health and social science studies, including the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and other surveys, treat Latinos 1 as though they were a homogenous group. However, as Modiano and colleagues (75) stated,The aggregation of culturally distinct subgroups, which have resided in the United States for different periods of time, into a more inclusive Latino category assumes that all persons of Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican origin have similar needs and experience similar barriers in using health services.There is, however, no clear evidence for this assumption. On the contrary, there is evidence that each group has specific characteristics that make it different and independent from one another. . . . (p. 35) Clearly, extraordinary diversity exists among subgroups of Latinos. The immigration and acculturation experiences of Mexican or Central American-descended Americans, South Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans vary substantially from one another. The distinction among Latino subgroups can be traced back to highly varied experiences not only with respect to encounters with the dominant American culture but also extending back to Spanish colonization, which began to redefine the western hemisphere 500 years ago. Indigenous groups in the Caribbean Islands and coastal areas largely succumbed to Iberian diseases and aggression and were replaced by Europeans and African slaves. Although forced to adopt much of the culture and religion of the conquistadores, indigenous groups in central and highland areas of Mexico and further south survived 1 The field offers no consensus regarding the term to refer to persons of Latin American heritage who live in the United States. Both "Hispanic" and "Latino" are used extensively, although U.S. government documents, including the Census, use the term Hispanic. Given this mixed usage in the literature, we use the term Latino to indicate, where po...

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“…The new arrivals as well as the first generation Hispanics adapting to the host culture will be more likely to seek out information to assist them in their purchase decisions. For example, studies of Hispanics in the context of health information usage recommend creation of mass media programs including audio-visual and print media as effective tools for persuading the Hispanic audience (Kar et al, 2001;Freimuth and Quinn, 2004;Oetzel et al, 2007). Thus, informative ads may be more useful and hence more liked, but because they are lacking in terms of entertainment appeal, they may be forwarded less by Hispanic consumers.…”

Section: Informative Appealsmentioning

confidence: 99%