Publications by authors named "N Vangeepuram"
COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Barriers to Vaccination: Comparing Perceptions Based on Vaccination Status.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- * The NYCEAL conducted focus groups with NYC residents to assess their views on vaccine effectiveness and barriers to vaccination, categorizing participants by their vaccination status.
- * Key themes from the analysis included trust in science, perceived vaccine effectiveness, and how people's views evolved over time, suggesting that cognitive biases influenced perceptions but didn't always change vaccination behavior.
Background: Food insecurity related to immigration status remains largely underexplored. This study examined trends and disparities in household food insecurity by immigration status in the United States (US).
Methods: We analyzed data from 427,942 households from the US Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement from 2011 to 2021.
Background: Approximately 1 in 5 adolescents in the United States has prediabetes, and racially and ethnically minoritized youths are disproportionately impacted. Unfortunately, there are few effective youth diabetes prevention programs, and in-person interventions are challenging because of barriers to access and engagement.
Objective: We aimed to develop and assess the preliminary feasibility and acceptability of a youth-informed SMS text messaging platform to provide additional support and motivation to adolescents with prediabetes participating in a diabetes prevention workshop in East Harlem, New York City, New York, United States.
Background: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and pre-diabetes mellitus (pre-DM) has been increasing among youth in recent decades in the United States, prompting an urgent need for understanding and identifying their associated risk factors. Such efforts, however, have been hindered by the lack of easily accessible youth pre-DM/DM data.
Objective: We aimed to first build a high-quality, comprehensive epidemiological data set focused on youth pre-DM/DM.