scholarly journals Parental preference for park attributes related to children’s use of parks in low-income, racial/ethnic diverse neighborhoods

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
S Scott Ogletree ◽  
Jing Huei Huang ◽  
Claudia Alberico ◽  
Oriol Marquet ◽  
Myron F Floyd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Neighborhood Context ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Latino Parents ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Physical Attributes ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Public parks offer free and easy to access spaces for outdoor recreation, which is essential for children’s outdoor play and physical activity in low-income communities.  Because parks and playgrounds contribute to children’s physical, social, and emotional development, it is critical to understand what makes them attractive and welcoming for families with young children. Parents can be a key determinant to children visiting parks, with their preferences influencing whether or not families visit parks in their neighborhoods. Past studies have posited there are significant differences across racial/ethnic populations in preferred park characteristics, but few have investigated specific park attributes parents from different racial and ethnic groups desire for their children. This study examined attributes associated with parental preferences for parks in low-income diverse communities in New York City, New York and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, USA. Parents’ responses were grouped into 10 categories using content analysis, with four key preference themes identified: physical attributes, experiences, social environment, and amenities. Physical attributes (i.e., playgrounds, sports fields, green spaces) were most desired among all groups. A significant difference across race/ethnic groups was found in New York but not in Raleigh-Durham. In New York, Latino parents had a strong preference for experience attributes (i.e. safety, safe facilities, cleanliness) which differed from other groups. Examining Latino parents in both cities we found no significant difference between cities. Although there is no one-size-fits-all approach to encourage park use, our finding suggests facilities and park safety are modifiable ways local government agencies could design and maintain parks that would be preferred by parents for their children. Future research should examine how neighborhood context may influence parent preferences related to parks. Parents’ responses were grouped into 10 categories using content analysis, with four key preference themes identified. A significant difference across race/ethnic groups was found in New York but not in Raleigh-Durham. Examining Latino parents in both cities we found no significant difference between cities. Physical attributes (i.e., playgrounds, sports fields, green spaces) were most desired among all groups. In New York, Latino parents had a strong preference for Experience attributes (i.e. safety, safe facilities, cleanliness) which differed from other groups. Future research should examine how neighborhood context may influence parent preferences related to parks and children’s physical activity.

Assessing Police Stops of Pedestrians: Toward a New Generation of Benchmarks

2021 ◽  
pp. 107808742110169
Author(s):  
Michael R. Smith ◽  
Rob Tillyer ◽  
Mitchell Smith ◽  
Caleb D. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Future Research ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Calls For Service ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This paper extends the stop and frisk literature from New York City by examining pedestrian stops made by San Jose, California, police officers from January 2013 through March 2016 with a particular focus on benchmarking. Using violent crime suspects and nuisance-related calls for service (CFS) as comparators, we consider whether San Jose Police Department (SJPD) officers disproportionately stopped individuals from the city’s dominant racial and ethnic groups citywide and in certain police beats with high levels of nuisance calls. Using violent crime suspects citywide as a benchmark, Whites were significantly overrepresented among those stopped by the police while Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks were underrepresented. The CFS findings at the beat level were consistent with the citywide findings for Blacks but reversed direction for Hispanics and varied for Asians depending upon beat and call type. We discuss possible reasons for this divergence across benchmarks and racial/ethnic groups and consider the implications for future research.

scholarly journals Imagining Her Future: Diversity in Mothers’ Socialization Goals for Their Adolescent Daughters

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ramirez ◽  
Linda Oshin ◽  
Stephanie Milan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Traits ◽  
Socialization Goals ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Q Sort

According to developmental niche theory, members of different cultural and ethnic groups often have distinct ideas about what children need to become well-adapted adults. These beliefs are reflected in parents’ long-term socialization goals for their children. In this study, we test whether specific themes that have been deemed important in literature on diverse families in the United States (e.g., Strong Black Woman [SBW], marianismo, familismo) are evident in mothers’ long-term socialization goals. Participants included 192 mothers of teenage daughters from a low-income city in the United States (58% Latina, 22% African American, and 20% European American [EA]/White). Socialization goals were assessed through a q-sort task on important traits for a woman to possess and content analysis of open-ended responses about what values mothers hoped they would transmit to their daughters as they become adults. Results from ANCOVAs and logistic regression indicate significant racial/ethnic differences on both tasks consistent with hypotheses. On the q-sort task, African American mothers put more importance on women possessing traits such as independence than mothers from other racial/ethnic groups. Similarly, they were more likely to emphasize self-confidence and strength in what they hoped to transmit to their daughters. Contrary to expectation, Latina mothers did not emphasize social traits on the q-sort; however, in open-ended responses, they were more likely to focus on the importance of motherhood, one aspect of marianismo and familismo. Overall, results suggest that these mothers’ long-term socialization goals incorporate culturally relevant values considered important for African American and Latino families.

Disentangling the Effects of Race and Place in Economic Transactions: Findings from an Online Field Experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 529-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Besbris ◽  
Jacob William Faber ◽  
Patrick Sharkey
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Economic Markets ◽  
Racial Stigma ◽  
Race And Place ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Scholarship on discrimination consistently shows that non–Whites are at a disadvantage in obtaining goods and services relative to Whites. To a lesser extent, recent work has asked whether or not place of residence may also affect individuals’ chances in economic markets. In this study, we use a field experiment in an online market for second–hand goods to examine transactional opportunities for White, Black, Asian, and Latino residents of both advantaged and disadvantaged neighborhoods. Our results show that sellers prefer transactional partners who live in advantaged neighborhoods to those who live in neighborhoods that are majority non–White and have higher rates of poverty. This was true across all four racial/ethnic groups, revealing that neighborhood stigma exists independently of racial stigma. We discuss the implications for scholarship on neighborhood effects and we outline how future research using experiments can leverage various types of markets to better specify when characteristics like race trigger discrimination.

Differences in overall survival for patients with cholangiocarcinoma: Racial/ethnic disparity or socioeconomic factors?

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 380-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel M Lee ◽  
Yuan Liu ◽  
Mohammad Yahya Zaidi ◽  
Adriana Carolina Gamboa ◽  
Maria C. Russell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Overall Survival ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Cancer Data ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Racial Ethnic

380 Background: Inequities in cancer survival are well documented. Whether disparities in overall survival (OS) result from inherent racial differences in underlying disease biology or socioeconomic factors (SEF) is not known. Our aim was to define the association of race/ethnicity and SEF with OS in pts with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). Methods: Pts with CCA of all sites and stages in the National Cancer Data Base (2004-14) were included. Racial/ethnic groups were defined as non-Hispanic White (NH-W), non-Hispanic Black (NH-B), Asian, and Hispanic. Income and education were based on census data for pts’ zip code. Income was defined as high (³$63,000) vs low ( < $63,000). Primary outcome was OS. Results: 27,151 pts were included with a mean age of 68 yrs; 51% were male. 78% were NH-W, 8% NH-B, 6% Asian, and 6% Hispanic. 56% had Medicare, 33% private insurance, 7% Medicaid, and 4% were uninsured. 67% had high income. 21% lived in an area where > 20% of adults did not finish high school. NH-B and Hispanic pts had more unfavorable SEF including uninsured status, low income, and less formal education than NH-W and Asian pts (all p < 0.001). They were also younger, more likely to be female and to have metastatic disease (all p < 0.001). Despite this, NH-B race and Hispanic ethnicity were not associated with decreased OS. Male sex, older age, non-private insurance, low income, lower education, non-academic facility, location outside the Northeast, higher Charlson-Deyo score, worse grade, larger tumor size, and higher stage were all associated with decreased OS (all p < 0.001). On MV analysis, along with adverse pathologic factors, type of insurance (p = 0.003), low income (p < 0.001), and facility type and location of treatment (p < 0.001) remained associated with decreased OS; non-white race/ethnicity was not. Conclusions: Disparities in survival exist in CCA, however they are not driven by race/ethnicity. Non-privately insured and low-income pts had decreased OS, as did pts treated at non-academic centers and outside the Northeast. This suggests that decreased ability to access and afford care results in worse outcomes, rather than biological differences amongst racial/ethnic groups.

Access to and Use of Non-Inpatient Services in New York State Among Racial-Ethnic Groups

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole E. Siegel ◽  
Joseph Wanderling ◽  
Gary Haugland ◽  
Eugene M. Laska ◽  
Brady G. Case
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
New York State ◽  
York State ◽  
Inpatient Services ◽  
Racial Ethnic

A multi-institution analysis of molecular biomarkers in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer in ethnically diverse populations.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e16074-e16074
Author(s):  
Zunaira H Choudhary ◽  
Shailesh M Advani ◽  
Nadia Ashai ◽  
Sara Tariq ◽  
Axel Grothey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Univariate Analysis ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Nras Mutation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Racial Ethnic

e16074 Background: Differences in clinical outcomes for metastatic CRC (mCRC) have been reported across racial-ethnic groups, particularly between Hispanics (HA), non-Hispanic Blacks (NHB), and non-Hispanic Whites (NHW), with limited information available among Asian Americans (AA). We examined if there were differences in clinical outcomes by molecular drivers between these groups in a pooled analysis of two institutions serving ethnically diverse patient populations. Methods: We retrospectively examined 1927 mCRC patients from Montefiore Medical Center and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Mutations in KRAS, NRAS, and BRAF were determined by polymerase chain reaction or next generation sequencing. Mutations were then correlated with overall survival (OS). Results: Our patient population consisted of 1153 (61%) NHW, 314 (17%) HA, 320 (17%) NHB and 59 (3.1%) AA. Across subgroups, borderline significant difference in prevalence of BRAF mutation was observed (p = 0.04), with higher prevalence observed among NHW as compared to other groups. No differences were observed for KRAS and NRAS mutation prevalence. In univariate analysis, the median survival for BRAF MT tumors was 18.5 months vs 32 months for BRAF WT tumors (p < 0.0001). Similarly, median OS for KRAS WT, KRAS MT, NRAS WT and NRAS MT was 29.3, 27.4, 31 and 31.5 months respectively, with no differences between groups. In subgroup analysis by race/ethnicity, median OS in BRAF MT NHW was 19.98 months vs 33.48 in BRAF WT NHW (p < 0.0001). Similar trends were observed in HA and NHB. No differences in median OS were observed by KRAS or NRAS mutation status across racial-ethnic groups. Conclusions: This multi-institution study found no meaningful difference in the prevalence of molecular drivers across racial-ethnic groups. Additionally, in our subgroup analyses, OS based on the presence of a specific molecular driver mutation did not seem to vary by race. For example, RAS mutated and BRAF mutated patients showed similar OS across racial-ethnic groups. Our study demonstrates that reported differences in clinical outcomes by race and ethnicity in the literature are unlikely to be dependent on the difference in the presence of certain molecular drivers.

Abstract WP278: Demographic Disparities in Extended Use of Tissue Plasminogen Activase in Acute Stroke Patients Treated via Telestroke

Stroke ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shima Bozorgui ◽  
Tzu-Ching Wu ◽  
Arvind B Bambhroliya ◽  
Christy M Ankrom ◽  
Tiffany D Cossey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Older Patients ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Video Consultation ◽  
Scientific Statement ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Introduction: Disparities have been demonstrated in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) treatment between age, gender, and racial/ethnic groups. Telestroke (TS) has been noted to decrease disparities in AIS care. As AIS management via TS increases and the inclusion criteria for tPA expands, it is crucial to evaluate differences among patients of various age, gender, and race/ethnicity with extended use of tPA (EU-tPA). EU-tPA was defined as patients with relative contraindications as per 2016 AHA/ASA scientific statement, and who have consented to receive EU-tPA. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that EU-tPA is administered at similar frequencies among patients of different age, gender, and racial/ethnic groups via TS. Methods: From 9/2015-3/2016, we identified 136 suspected AIS patients with reported relative contraindications to tPA in our TS registry who were evaluated by video consultation at one of 17 spoke hospitals. We compared the likelihood of receiving EU-tPA among patients of different age, gender, and racial/ethnic groups. Results: Of 136 suspected AIS patients with reported contraindications to tPA in our TS registry, 35 (25.7%) received EU-tPA. Demographic characteristics are presented in Table 1. There was no significant difference between gender and race/ethnicity in receiving EU-tPA. Patients who were older were less likely to receive EU-tPA and the difference persisted in the multivariate analysis (p=0.026). Similarly, patients with mild or rapidly improving symptoms were less likely to receive EU-tPA (p=0.001). Conclusion: Our study suggests that older patients receive EU-tPA less frequently. Although there was no significant difference between gender and racial/ethnic groups, there was a trend that Hispanics might receive EU-tPA less frequently than non-Hispanic whites. Additional prospective study is needed to evaluate reasons why older patients are less likely to receive EU-tPA.

African-American Multiple Myeloma Patients Exhibit Less Bone Disease Compared to Other Racial/Ethnic Groups

Blood ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 116 (21) ◽  
pp. 4994-4994
Author(s):  
Eric W. Dean ◽  
Elad Ziv
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Myeloma ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Bone Disease ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Compression Fractures ◽  
Lytic Lesions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Abstract Abstract 4994 Background: Bone destruction remains one of the major complications in Multiple Myeloma (MM) leading to morbidity and mortality. African-Americans have a higher incidence of MM but exhibit longer survivals compared to Caucasians. We analyzed bone involvement in a cohort of patients with MM to determine if non African American (non AA) vs. African American (AA) race predicts the presence and severity of bone disease at presentation. Methods: Clinical data was gathered on 197 (176 non AA and 21 AA) MM patients at the University of California, San Francisco. Each patient had a skeletal survey at diagnosis and identified as having 0 lytic lesions, 1–2 lytic lesions or 3 or more lytic lesions. The presence of compression fractures was also documented for each patient as was age and sex. Results: The presence of compression fractures strongly correlated with the number of lytic lesions in both the non AA and AA groups, with no compression fractures observed in the patients with zero lytic lesions (p<0.001). Among the AA group, there were fewer (6 of 15) patients with compression fractures compared with patients from the non AA group (92 of 161) (p=0.02). There was also a trend towards fewer lytic lesions among the AA group (p=0.053). No significant difference was observed between the extent of bone disease and age or sex between the two groups. Conclusions: Within this cohort of patients, there is a significantly lower rate of compression fractures among African-Americans. These data supports the idea that African-American patients present with less bone disease which confers a survival advantage compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

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