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There has been active discussion on the Spririt of 1848
List-serve (to subscribe contact nancy krieger as e-mail
below) concerning measuring racial discrimination
experiences within a questionnaire format. Sadly, an
ever-increasing issue in the True North Strong and Free.
Forwarded Message:
From: Nancy Krieger <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 18:06:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Survey questions on discrimination
To: Laura Trupin <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: Spirit of 1848 <[log in to unmask]>,
nancy krieger <[log in to unmask]>
Hi Laura--
First, I'll be happy to send you the CARDIA
instrument, which has
questions on discrimination related to race/ethnicity,
gender, sexual
orientation, social class, and religion. I'll also be
sending you a letter
explaining how the CARDIA study needs to be acknowledged,
should you use
the instrument. The published studies that present the
CARDIA instruments
(and an earlier version) are:
--Krieger N, Sidney S. Racial discrimination and blood
pressure: the
study of young black and white adults. Am J Public Health
1996;
86:1370-1378.
--Krieger N, Sidney S. Prevalence and health implications of
anti-gay
discrimination: a study of black and white women and men in
the CARDIA
cohort. Int J Health Services 1997; 27:157-176.
--Krieger N. Racial and gender discrimination: risk factors
for high blood
pressure? Soc Sci Med 1990; 30:1273-1281.
There are also several other published/presented
instruments
developed for public health research that you might want to
consider, with
regard to measuring racial discrimination. They appear in
the following
articles:
--Amaro H, Russo NF, Johnson J. Family and work predictors
of
psychological well-being among Hispanic women professionals.
Psych Women
Quarterly 1987; 11:505-521.
--Jackson JS, Brown TN, Williams DR, Torres M, Sellers SL,
Brown K. Racism
and the physical and mental health status of African
Americans: a thirteen
year national panel study. Ethnicity & Disease 1996;
6:132-147.
--McNeilly MD, Anderson NB, Armstead CA, Clark R, Corbett M,
Robinso EL,
Pieper CF, Lepisto EM. The perceived racism scale: a
multidimensional
assessment of the experience of white racism among African
Americans.
Ethnicity & Disease 1996; 6:154-166.
--Ladrine H, Klonoff EA. The schedule of racist events: a
measure of
racial discrimination and study of its negative physical and
mental health
consequences. J Black Psychol 1996; 22:144-168.
--Mays VM, Cochran SD. Racial discrimination and health
outcomes in
African Americans. Presented at the National Center for
Health Statistics
1997 Joint Meeting of the Public Health Conference on
Records and
Statistics and the Data Users Conference, Washington, DC,
July 28-31,
1997.
--Williams DR, Yu Y, Jackson J, Anderson N. Racial
differences in physical
and mental health: socioeconomic status, stress, and
discrimination. J
Health Psychol (in press).
For the last two, you will need to contact Vickie Mays and
David Williams
directly to see if you can obtain copies of their
instruments; their email
addresses are:
Vickie Mays: [log in to unmask]
David Williams: [log in to unmask]
For gender discrimination, see also:
--Klonoff EA, Ladrine H. The schedule of sexist events: a
measure of
lifetime and recent sexist discrimination in women's lives.
Psychol Women
Q 1995; 19:439-472.
And for sexual orientation, see also:
--Bradford J, Ryan C, Rothblum ED. National lesbian health
care survey:
implications for mental health care J Consulting Clinical
Psychol 1994;
62:228-242.
--Meyer IH. Minority stress and mental health in gay men. J
Health Soc
Behav 1995; 36:38-56.
I'm really glad you asked your question, Laura, as you're
using this
bulletin board in ways very much keeping in the spirit of
why we have it
up & running--to promote this kind of resource exchange, and
with that,
exchange of ideas. I imagine too that these will be the
kinds of
instruments that will be included in the Data Tool Kit that
we plan to
have on our web page in the coming year. More of this will
be reported in
our next Spirit of 1848 reportback, which the Coordinating
Committee will
be sending out in a few weeks (both by email & regular
mail).
Hope this is of help--
Nancy K
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Dept of Health and Social Behavior fax:
617-432-3755
Harvard School of Public Health
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Boston, MA 02115 email:
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