Genetic Signatures of Glucose Homeostasis: Synergistic Interplay With Long-Term Exposure to Cigarette Smoking in Development of Primary Colorectal Cancer Among African American Women

Fifty Elderly African-American Women Living In Poverty Were Interviewed For A Research Project Entitled “Chronic Poverty And The Self In Later Life” Which Studies The Effects Of Long-Term Poverty On Women's Self-Concepts. The Fact That Ten Women Out Of The Forty-Five Women In Our Sample Who Bore Children Lost Them To Murder, drugs, or other forms of violence made the subject of horrendous death (Leviton, 1995) salient during data analysis. Interview transcripts from three women who lost children to horrendous death were examined for reactions to the children's deaths and subsequent thoughts and feelings about their own deaths. Key themes emerging from the women's narratives were: 1) women's experience with poverty and abandonment, their expectation that life includes suffering, and their religious faith assisted them in grief work; 2) currently, women focused on present joys and concerns rather than on past sorrows; 3) women did not articulate thoughts about their own deaths in light of their child(ren)‘s deaths; and 4) women doubted or negated the concept of an afterlife, which contradicts traditional African beliefs and may speak to the loss they endured.

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Is adherence to diet, physical activity, and body weight cancer prevention recommendations associated with colorectal cancer incidence in African American women?

Cancer Causes & Control ◽

10.1007/s10552-016-0760-3 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 27 (7) ◽

pp. 869-879 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Sarah J. O. Nomura ◽

Chiranjeev Dash ◽

Lynn Rosenberg ◽

Jeffrey Yu ◽

Julie R. Palmer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Colorectal Cancer ◽

Body Weight ◽

African American ◽

Cancer Prevention ◽

African American Women ◽

Cancer Incidence ◽

American Women ◽

Adherence To Diet ◽

Colorectal Cancer Incidence

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Increasing Physical Activity in Black Women: Results from a Randomized Trial Conducted in Faith-Based Settings

Ethnicity & Disease ◽

10.18865/ed.27.4.411 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 411 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Melicia C. Whitt-Glover ◽

Moses V. Goldmon ◽

Ziya Gizlice ◽

Marie Sillice ◽

Lyndsey Hornbuckle ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

African American ◽

Black Women ◽

African American Women ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Control Group ◽

High Risk Population ◽

Post Intervention ◽

American Women

Objective: The Learning and Developing Individual Exercise Skills (L.A.D.I.E.S.) for a Better Life study compared a faith-integrated (FI) and a secular (SEC) intervention for increasing physical activity with a self-guided (SG) control group among African American women. Design/Setting/Participants: L.A.D.I.E.S. was a cluster randomized, controlled trial. Churches (n=31) were randomized and women within each church (n=12 – 15) received the same intervention. Interventions: FI and SEC participants received 24 group-based sessions, delivered over 10 months. SG participants received printed materials to review independently for 10 months. Participants were followed for 12-months post-intervention to assess long-term intervention impact. Main Outcome Measures: Data on participant characteristics, physical activity, and intervention-related constructs were collected at baseline, 10 months, and 22 months. Results: Intervention session attendance was greater for FI compared with SEC participants (15.7 + 5.7 vs 12.4 + 7.3 sessions, respectively, P<.01). After 10 months, FI and SEC participants significantly increased daily walking (+1,451 and +1,107 steps/ day, respectively) compared with SG participants (-128 steps/day). Increases were maintained after 22 months in the FI group compared with the SG group (+1092 vs. +336 daily steps, P<.01). Between-group changes in accelerometer-assessed physical activity were not statistically significant at any time point. Conclusions: The FI intervention is a feasible strategy for short- and long-term increases in physical activity among African American women. Additional dissemination and evaluation of the strategy could be useful for reducing chronic disease in this high-risk population. Ethn Dis.2017;27(4):411- 420; doi:10.18865/ed.27.4.411.

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“There Were Rapes!”: Sexual Assaults of African American Women and Children in Jim Crow

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/1077801216654016 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 23 (8) ◽

pp. 934-950 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ruth Thompson-Miller ◽

Leslie H. Picca

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

African American Women ◽

Jim Crow ◽

White Men ◽

Sexual Assaults ◽

American Women ◽

Using Data ◽

The 1960S ◽

Long Term Impact

Using data from 92 interviews, this article examines the narratives of African Americans’ experiences as children and young adults during Jim Crow in the Southeast and Southwest. It gives voice to the realities of sexual assaults committed by ordinary White men who systematically terrorized African American families with impunity after the post-Reconstruction south until the 1960s. The interviewees discuss the short- and long-term impact of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual assaults in their communities. We discuss the top four prevalent themes that emerged related to sexual assault, specifically (a) the normalization of sexual assaults, (b) protective measures to avoid White violence, (c) the morality of African American women, and (d) the long-term consequences of assaults on children.

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