Communalism Moderates the Association Between Racial Centrality and Emergency Department Use for Sickle Cell Disease Pain
| dc.contributor.author | Bediako, Shawn M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Harris, Chey | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-12T18:03:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-12T18:03:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-04-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic blood disorder that predominantly affects people of African descent. However, there is limited information on how social and cultural contexts affect SCD-related health care use. We explored whether communalism moderated the relation between racial centrality and emergency department use for SCD pain in a sample of 62 adults who were seen at a comprehensive clinic. Bivariate analyses showed a significant correlation between racial centrality and emergency department use (r = −.30, p = .02). Pain-adjusted regression analyses indicated a moderating effect of communalism (b = .77, p < .01) such that an inverse association between racial centrality and emergency department use was observed only at mean and low levels of communalism. Additional studies are needed to replicate these findings with larger samples. There is also a need for further studies that elucidate the role of culturally centered coping strategies on health care use in this patient group. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by Grant K07HL108742 awarded to Shawn M. Bediako by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Chey Harris was supported by a National Institute of General Medical Sciences Grant (5TL4GM118974) awarded to Morgan State University | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095798417696785 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 10 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles postprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2pdza-rj7u | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Shawn M. Bediako and Chey Harris, Communalism Moderates the Association Between Racial Centrality and Emergency Department Use for Sickle Cell Disease Pain, Journal of Black Psychology Vol 43, Issue 7( 2017), https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798417696785 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798417696785 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/18884 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | SAGE | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Psychology Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
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| dc.rights | This is not the final published version. Shawn M. Bediako and Chey Harris, Communalism Moderates the Association Between Racial Centrality and Emergency Department Use for Sickle Cell Disease Pain, Journal of Black Psychology (Volume Number 43 and Issue Number 7) pp. 659–668. Copyright © 2018. DOI: 10.1177/0095798417696785 | |
| dc.title | Communalism Moderates the Association Between Racial Centrality and Emergency Department Use for Sickle Cell Disease Pain | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |