scholarly journals Acculturation, Food Label Literacy and Use Among South Asian Americans

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 210-210
Author(s):  
Sunitha Jasti ◽  
Pooja Suganthan
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Food Label ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
South Asian Americans

Abstract Objectives To examine the level of acculturation and its association with food label literacy and use among South Asian Americans. Methods Data were collected using an online cross-sectional survey of 269 South Asian Americans living across the United States, recruited via social media and snow-ball sampling method. The Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics was adapted to measure acculturation amongst South Asian adults. The Newest Vital Sign health literacy assessment tool was used to measure food label literacy. Results In this sample of 196 South Asian Americans with complete data, mean age was 36 ± 11.4 y, the majority were born outside the U.S (84%), women (69%), married (69%), overweight/obese (65%) and had college degrees (86%). While most (82%) reported using food labels at least sometimes when purchasing a food product for the first time (82%), and that food labels influenced their purchase decisions (75%), only 35% demonstrated food label literacy (with maximum food label literacy score). Older (age ≥ 36y) South Asian Americans were more likely to be food label users (89.4% vs 73.6%, P = .006) and to report that food labels influence their food purchases (82.8% vs 69%, P = .034) than their younger counterparts. Mean acculturation was 3.14 ± 0.78 (scale 1 – 5). Higher acculturation (score >median) was not associated with food label use, but was significantly associated with food label literacy (43.6% vs 27.3%, P = 0.018). The association between higher acculturation and food label literacy remained significant after controlling for age, sex and education (adj OR = 2.22; 95% CI: 1.18, 4.14). Conclusions Nutrition education interventions are needed to improve food label literacy among South Asian Americans. Funding Sources None.

Knowing Your Place

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Himanee Gupta-Carlson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Religious Discrimination ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
South Asian Americans ◽  
Auto Ethnography

This chapter discusses Hindu nationalism and its outreach to Indians living outside of India, particularly the United States. It describes how the movement has impacted the daily lives of Indian Americans in Muncie, Indiana, through a close reading and discourse analysis of conversations with Indian and other South Asian residents of Muncie. The author uses auto-ethnography to situate the analysis within the context of her experiences and argues that the manner in which South Asian Americans in Muncie of differing religious backgrounds might offer a template for challenging religious discrimination.

Animating Gandhi

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shilpa S. Davé
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
South Asians ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
American Character ◽  
South Asian Americans ◽  
Asian History

This chapter discusses how the Indian American character is the accent or the suburban “sidekick” character to the dominant narratives of young, white masculinity that are prevalent in American culture. The representation and use of the historical figure Mohandas Gandhi in the MTV animated series Clone High revisits and challenges American representations of Asian Americans and South Asian Americans as model minorities. The use of the historical leader Gandhi as a teenage “geek” sidekick without recognition of how Gandhi fits into South Asian history and influences South Asian American communities shows how American stereotypes dwarf any other representation of South Asians or South Asian Americans in the United States.

Health Behaviours and Awareness of Canada’s Food Guide: A Population-based Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nonsikelelo Mathe ◽  
Calypse B. Agborsangaya ◽  
Christina C. Loitz ◽  
Jeffrey A. Johnson ◽  
Steven T. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Food Label ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
Specific Health

Purpose: Lifestyle behaviours among adults reporting awareness of Canada’s Food Guide (CFG) are described. Methods: Data from a cross-sectional survey of adults from Alberta were used to estimate the prevalence of reported health behaviours among respondents aware of the CFG. Results: Respondents (n = 1044) reported general awareness of CFG (mean age 50.3 years; 54.2% female) of whom 82.2% reported awareness of specific CFG recommendations. Respondents reported frequently reading food labels (>58.0%), reading the number of calories (45.5%), the amount of sodium (49.5%), the amount of fat (46.7%), and the type of fat (45.5%) on the food label. Most respondents (90.0%) reported frequently selecting foods to promote health. Approximately one-third of the respondents (35.8%) reported frequently consuming ≥5 portions of vegetables and fruit per day and regularly participating in physical activity (55.3%). Body weight was perceived as healthy by 63.4% of the respondents. Most engaged in 2 health behaviours frequently. Adjusting for important socio-demographic characteristics, those who reported frequently consuming ≥5 portions of vegetables and fruit per day were more likely to engage in a second health behaviour outlined in CGF (OR: 23.6, 95% CI (16.2–34.4)). Conclusion: Awareness of CFG did not translate to positive health behaviours. More proactive population level strategies to support specific health behaviours as outlined in CFG might be warranted.

scholarly journals Label reading habits and views on genetically modified organisms of adults during food shoppingErişkinlerin gıda alışverişi sırasında etiket okuma alışkanlıkları ve genetiği değiştirilmiş organizmalar konusundaki görüşleri

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 2565
Author(s):  
Fatma Uyar ◽  
Aynur Çetinkaya ◽  
Dilek Özmen ◽  
Ali Tayhan ◽  
Damla Şahin Büyük
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Public Health Nurse ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Food Label ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Collection Form

Food label makes it possible to use the rights training, access to information, selection for consumer. It is possible to eat healthy by having more information on food labels. This study was planned to determine food label reading habit and the views on GMOs of adults. The population of the research consists of adults who shpping at supermarket in Manisa. The sample was 658 people (n=658). The descriptive and cross-sectional survey was done October between and December 2014. The data collection form includes socio-demographic information, opinions on label reading and GMOs. It was found that 80.1% of respondents' source of information on GMOs is the media.It was found that socio-demographical characteristics of the participants affected food labels reading habits and views on GMOs. It was found that most of respondents that disagreed in production with genetically modified seeds in Turkey is correct. Furthermore most of respondents thought that did not comply with the ban which prevents entry of genetically modified foods to Turkey and did not make necessary checks in there. The results of this study show that adults are not having much knowledge about GMOs and risk perseption scale on GMOs is great. the media has the bigggest effect about GMOs. This study once again showed the need for the educational role of the public health nurse in terms of community nutrition. Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetGıda etiketi tüketicinin bilgi edinme, eğitilme, seçme hakkını kullanmasını mümkün kılar. Gıda etiketleri hakkında daha fazla bilgiye sahip olarak sağlıklı beslenmek mümkündür. Çalışma erişkinlerin gıda etiketi okuma alışkanlığı ve GDO konusundaki görüşlerinin belirlenmesi amacıyla planlanmıştır. Araştırmanın evrenini Manisa il merkezinde bulunan süpermarketlerden alışveriş yapan erişkinler oluşturmuştur. Örneklem ise 568 kişidir (n=658). Tanımlayıcı-kesitsel tipteki çalışmanın verileri Ekim-Aralık 2014 tarihleri arasında toplanmıştır. Veriler GDO’ ya ilişkin soruların olduğu form ve sosyo-demografik bilgi formu kullanılarak toplanmıştır. GDO’ ya ilişkin bilgiye ulaşmada en sık kullanılan kaynak medyadır (%80.1).Katılımcıların sosyo-demografik özelliklerinin   etiket okuma alışkanlığı ve GDO’ ya ilişkin görüşlerini etkilediği bulunmuştur. Katılımcıların çoğu Türkiye’de GD tohumlarla üretim yapılmasını doğru bulmadığını, Türkiye’de GDO’ lu gıda girişini engelleyen yasağa uyulmadığını ve gerekli kontrollerin yapılmadığını düşünmektedir. Çalışma sonuçlarına göre erişkinler GDO hakkında pek fazla bilgi sahibi değildir ve medya en büyük etkiye sahiptir. Katılımcıların GDO risk algısı yüksektir. Bu çalışma toplum beslenmesi açısından halk sağlığı hemşiresinin eğitici rolüne olan ihtiyacı bir kez daha gözler önüne sermiştir.

Category Crisis: South Asian Americans and Questions of Race and Ethnicity

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-320
Author(s):  
Susan Koshy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
South Asians ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
South Asian Americans

The identity of South Asians in the United States has proved to be problematic, both for the self-identification of the group and for the identifying institutions and popular perceptions of the host society. As a result, a certain exceptionalism (commonly indexed as ambiguity) has come to attach itself to the historiography of South Asian American racial formation. This exceptionalism, in turn, has formed the ground for two competing constructions of South Asian American racial identity that wield significant influence today. One view, represented by some of the major immigrant organizations and reproduced by many middle-class immigrants, stresses ethnicity and class and denies or mitigates the historical salience of race for South Asians in the United States. This position emphasizes the anomalous status of South Asian Americans among racial minorities and embraces the rhetoric of a color-blind meritocracy. The second position, associated mainly with scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences and with some activists, treats South Asian color consciousness as equivalent to white racism and criticizes the immigrant community for denying its own blackness. These critics advocate that South Asian Americans politicize their identity, like their diasporic counterparts in Britain, by forming coalitions with other people of color. Ironically, both positions tend to construct racial identification as a choice, inadvertently reproducing the American ideology of self-making and possibility in discussing one of the social arenas where it has been least applicable.

scholarly journals Designing Effective Health Education Interventions for Preventing Obesity in South Asian Americans

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoj Sharma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Education ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
The United States ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
South Asian Americans ◽  
Sweetened Beverages ◽  
Behavioral Theories

South Asian Americans constitute the fastest growing immigrant group in the United States. Overweight (adults: 38% - 57%, children: 18% - 43%) and obesity (24%) rates in Asian Americans are increasing and not even a single health education intervention has been designed for this group in this regard. The purpose of this study was to identify culturally-relevant determinants that influence obesity and overweight among South Asian Americans and develop a set of recommendations for designing culturally-appropriate interventions for this group. The modifiable determinants for overweight and obesity in South Asian Americans were found to be physical inactivity, dietary behaviors (consuming large portion sizes, less consumption of fruits and vegetables, large consumption of sweetened beverages), watching TV for long hours on a sustained basis, acculturation to the US, poor family communication, less social support, less social integration, stress, and longer years of living in the United States. There is need for interventions both for children in school settings utilizing parental involvement and for adults in community settings utilizing local religious organizations. Culturally robust behavioral theories need to be utilized with this subpopulation.

Distribution and Correlates of Incident Heart Failure Risk in South Asian Americans: The MASALA Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilay S. Shah ◽  
Anubha Agarwal ◽  
Mark D. Huffman ◽  
Deepak K. Gupta ◽  
Clyde W. Yancy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
South Asian Americans ◽  
Failure Risk ◽  
Incident Heart Failure

scholarly journals Analyzing Predictors of Control Measures and Psychosocial Problems Associated with COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Eight Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Sheikh Saifur Rahman Jony ◽  
Ubydul Haque ◽  
Nathaniel J. Webb ◽  
Emily Spence ◽  
Md. Siddikur Rahman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Primary Determinant

COVID-19 has harshly impacted communities globally. This study provides relevant information for creating equitable policy interventions to combat the spread of COVID-19. This study aims to predict the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of the COVID-19 pandemic at a global level to determine control measures and psychosocial problems. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from July to October 2020 using an online questionnaire. Questionnaires were initially distributed to academicians worldwide. These participants distributed the survey among their social, professional, and personal groups. Responses were collected and analyzed from 67 countries, with a sample size of 3031. Finally, based on the number of respondents, eight countries, including Bangladesh, China, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, the United States, and Zambia were rigorously analyzed. Specifically, questionnaire responses related to COVID-19 accessibility, behavior, knowledge, opinion, psychological health, and susceptibility were collected and analyzed. As per our analysis, age groups were found to be a primary determinant of behavior, knowledge, opinion, psychological health, and susceptibility scores. Gender was the second most influential determinant for all metrics except information about COVID-19 accessibility, for which education was the second most important determinant. Respondent profession was the third most important metric for all scores. Our findings suggest that greater encouragement from government health authorities and the promotion of health education and policies are essential in the dissemination of COVID-19-awareness and increased control of the spread of COVID-19.

scholarly journals Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Training among Medical Schools in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 215013272110287
Author(s):  
Robert L. Cooper ◽  
Mohammad Tabatabai ◽  
Paul D. Juarez ◽  
Aramandla Ramesh ◽  
Matthew C. Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) has been shown to be an effective method of HIV prevention for men who have sex with-men (MSM) and -transgender women (MSTGWs), serodiscordant couples, and injection drug users; however fewer than 50 000 individuals currently take this regimen. Knowledge of PrEP is low among healthcare providers and much of this lack of knowledge stems from the lack or exposure to PrEP in medical school. We conducted a cross sectional survey of medical schools in the United States to assess the degree to which PrEP for HIV prevention is taught. The survey consisted Likert scale questions assessing how well the students were prepared to perform each skill associated with PrEP delivery, as well as how PrEP education was delivered to students. We contacted 141 medical schools and 71 responded to the survey (50.4%). PrEP education was only reported to be offered at 38% of schools, and only 15.4% reported specific training for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) patients. The most common delivery methods of PrEP content were didactic sessions with 11 schools reporting this method followed by problem-based learning, direct patient contact, workshops, and small group discussions. Students were more prepared to provide PrEP to MSM compared to other high-risk patients. Few medical schools are preparing their students to prescribe PrEP upon graduation. Further, there is a need to increase the number of direct patient contacts or simulations for students to be better prepared.

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