Does Home Remedy Use Contribute to Medication Nonadherence Among Blacks with Hypertension?

Background: Home remedies (HRs) are described as foods, herbs, and other household products used to manage chronic conditions. The objective of this study was to examine home remedy (HR) use among Blacks with hypertension and to determine if home remedy use is correlated with blood pressure and medication adherence.

Methods: Data for this cross-sectional study were obtained from the TRUST study conducted between 2006-2008.

An Examination of John Henryism, Trust, and Medication Adherence Among African Americans With Hypertension.

John Henryism is defined as a measure of active coping in response to stressful experiences. John Henryism has been linked with health conditions such as diabetes, prostate cancer, and hypertension, but rarely with health behaviors. We hypothesized that reporting higher scores on the John Henryism Scale may be associated with poorer medication adherence, and trust in providers may mediate this relationship.

Weight-based discrimination and medication adherence among low-income African Americans with hypertension: how much of the association is mediated by self-efficacy?

Objectives: Much of the excessive morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease among African Americans results from low adherence to anti-hypertensive medications. Therefore, we examined the association between weight-based discrimination and medication adherence.

Methods: We used cross-sectional data from low-income African Americans with hypertension.

Meeting the information needs of lower income cancer survivors: results of a randomized control trial evaluating the american cancer society's "I can cope".

The American Cancer Society is a leader in the development of cancer survivorship resources. One resource of the American Cancer Society is the I Can Cope program, an educational program for cancer survivors and their families. Evaluations of this program indicate that cancer patients highly rate its objectives.

Eye care use among a high-risk diabetic population seen in a public hospital's clinics.

Importance: Little is known regarding eye care use among low-income persons with diabetes mellitus, especially African Americans.

Objective: To investigate eye care use among patients with diabetes who were seen in a county hospital clinic that primarily serves high-risk, low-income, non-Hispanic African American patients.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A retrospective cohort study with 2 years of follow-up examined eye care use among adult patients with diabetes seen in 2007 in an outpatient medical clinic of a large, urban county hospital that primarily serves low-income, non-Hispanic African American patients.

Reported racial discrimination, trust in physicians, and medication adherence among inner-city African Americans with hypertension.

Objectives: We sought to determine if reported racial discrimination was associated with medication nonadherence among African Americans with hypertension and if distrust of physicians was a contributing factor.

Methods: Data were obtained from the TRUST project conducted in Birmingham, Alabama, 2006 to 2008. All participants were African Americans diagnosed with hypertension and receiving care at an inner city, safety net setting.

Trust, medication adherence, and hypertension control in Southern African American men.

We examined the relationship between trust in the medical system, medication adherence, and hypertension control in Southern African American men. The sample included 235 African American men aged 18 years and older with hypertension. African American men with higher general trust in the medical system were more likely to report better medication adherence (odds ratio [OR] = 1.

Recruitment of low income, predominantly minority cancer survivors to a randomized trial of the I Can Cope cancer education program.

This report describes recruitment of minority cancer survivors for a randomized trial of I Can Cope, a support program of the American Cancer Society. Survivor Education and Evaluation (SURE), was designed to recruit patients, age 19 and older, with a primary cancer diagnosis. Recruitment was primarily carried out in a public hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

"I'LL DIE WITH THE HAMMER IN MY HAND": JOHN HENRYISM AS A PREDICTOR OF HAPPINESS.

This paper examines the association between John Henryism - a behavioral predisposition to cope actively with psychosocial environmental stressors - and happiness. On the basis of previous research on aspiration and goal regulation, we predicted that John Henryism would be negatively associated with happiness when controlling for demographic factors and attainment in various domains of life. We tested the prediction in a sample of hypertensive participants (n=758) drawn from an inner-city, mainly African-American, safety-net hospital in Jefferson County, Alabama.

Culturally appropriate storytelling to improve blood pressure: a randomized trial.

Background: Storytelling is emerging as a powerful tool for health promotion in vulnerable populations. However, these interventions remain largely untested in rigorous studies.

Objective: To test an interactive storytelling intervention involving DVDs.

Tailoring cancer education and support programs for low-income, primarily African American cancer survivors.

Purpose/objectives: to identify the information and stress-management topics of most interest to low-income, predominantly African American cancer survivors.

Research Approach: descriptive, cross sectional.

Setting: outpatient oncology clinic in a public hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

Refractive error and ethnicity in children.

Objective: To report the baseline prevalence of refractive error in the study population.

Design: A multicenter, longitudinal, observational study of refractive error and ocular development in children from 4 ethnic groups.

Patients And Methods: The study population included 2523 children (534 African American, 491 Asian, 463 Hispanic, and 1035 white) in grades 1 to 8 (age, 5-17 years).