scholarly journals The Efficacy of HIV/STI Behavioral Interventions for African American Females in the United States: A Meta-Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 99 (11) ◽  
pp. 2069-2078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Crepaz ◽  
Khiya J. Marshall ◽  
Latrina W. Aupont ◽  
Elizabeth D. Jacobs ◽  
Yuko Mizuno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
African American Females

scholarly journals Efficacy of HIV/STI Behavioral Interventions for Heterosexual African American Men in the United States: A Meta-Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1092-1114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk D. Henny ◽  
Nicole Crepaz ◽  
Cynthia M. Lyles ◽  
Khiya J. Marshall ◽  
Latrina W. Aupont ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Use of Mentholated Cigarettes and Likelihood of Smoking Cessation in the United States: A Meta-Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip H Smith ◽  
Biruktawit Assefa ◽  
Simranpreet Kainth ◽  
Kaliris Y Salas-Ramirez ◽  
Sherry A McKee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
African American ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cigarette Use ◽  
Black African ◽  
Menthol Cigarette ◽  
Marketing Influence

Abstract Introduction Previous qualitative reviews have summarized evidence of an association between menthol cigarette use and likelihood of smoking cessation. The objective of this meta-analysis was to provide a quantitative summary of effect sizes, their variability, and factors related to the variability in effect size for the association between menthol use and likelihood of smoking cessation. Methods We systematically searched Medline, PsycINFO, and Embase for prospective and cross-sectional studies of the association between menthol use and smoking cessation. We analyzed data with random effects meta-analyses and meta-regression. Results Our review identified 22 reports from 19 studies of the association between menthol use and cessation. All identified study samples included only US smokers, with one exception that included both Canadian and US smokers. Our overall model did not demonstrate a significant association between menthol use and cessation; however, menthol users were significantly less likely to quit among blacks/African American smokers (odds ratio = 0.88). Conclusions Among blacks/African Americans predominantly in the US menthol users have approximately 12% lower odds of smoking cessation compared to non-menthol users. This difference is likely the result of the tobacco industry’s ongoing marketing influence on the black/African American Community, suggesting that a menthol ban may have a unique public health benefit for black/African American smokers by encouraging quitting behavior. Implications This study adds a quantitative summary of the association between menthol cigarette use and smoking cessation in the United States. Findings of an association with lower likelihood of cessation among black/African American smokers, likely resulting from the tobacco industry’s marketing influence, support the ban of menthol flavoring as part of a comprehensive tobacco control effort to increase cessation among black/African American smokers.

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Behavioral Interventions to Reduce HIV Risk Behaviors of Hispanics in the United States and Puerto Rico

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Herbst ◽  
Linda S. Kay ◽  
Warren F. Passin ◽  
Cynthia M. Lyles ◽  
Nicole Crepaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hiv Risk Behaviors

Religion, Race, and Humanism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony B. Pinn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unitarian Universalist ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lorraine Hansberry

This chapter explores the history of humanism within African American communities. It positions humanist thinking and humanism-inspired activism as a significant way in which people of African descent in the United States have addressed issues of racial injustice. Beginning with critiques of theism found within the blues, moving through developments such as the literature produced by Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, to political activists such as W. E. B. DuBois and A. Philip Randolph, to organized humanism in the form of African American involvement in the Unitarian Universalist Association, African Americans for Humanism, and so on, this chapter presents the historical and institutional development of African American humanism.

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