Combining Explicit and Implicit Measures of Racial Discrimination in Health Research

作者: Nancy Krieger , Dana Carney , Katie Lancaster , Pamela D. Waterman , Anna Kosheleva

DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.159517

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摘要: Objectives. To improve measurement of discrimination for health research, we sought to address the concern that explicit self-reports racial may not capture unconscious cognition.Methods. We used 2 assessment tools in our Web-based study: a new application Implicit Association Test, computer-based reaction-time test measures strength association between an individual's self or group and being victim perpetrator discrimination, validated self-report measure discrimination.Results. Among 442 US-born non-Hispanic Black participants, implicit measures, as hypothesized, were weakly correlated tended be independently associated with risk hypertension among persons less than college degree. Adjustments both eliminated significantly greater Blacks Whites (odds ratio = 1.4), reducing it 1.1 (95% confidence interval 0.7, 1.7).Conclusions. Our results suggest th...

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