OBJECTIVE To describe the strategies and costs associated with recruiting both African American and White postmenopausal women into a randomized controlled trial. DESIGN The Beneficial Effects of Soy Trial (BEST) was a randomized, controlled trial designed to determine the effects of a dietary soy supplement on lipoproteins, lipoprotein subclasses, and menopausal symptoms in African American ...

OBJECTIVE: Mothers' beliefs about their children's negative emotions and their emotion socialization practices were examined. DESIGN: Sixty-five African American and 137 European American mothers of 5-year-old children reported their beliefs and typical responses to children's negative emotions, and mothers' emotion teaching practices were observed. RESULTS: African American mothers reported ...

OBJECTIVE To describe strategies for enhancing recruitment of African Americans to a longterm intervention study requiring frequent blood draws and follow-up visits, in a city with relatively few African Americans. DESIGN The intervention study was a 14-month, double-blind, crossover study evaluating the effects of three oral folic acid doses on blood homocysteine levels. The goal was to have...

BACKGROUND The authors compared treatment adherence rates and outcome in Caucasian and African American patients with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). METHODS The records of 55 (25 Caucasian and 30 African American) IBC patients treated with curative intent from 1995 to 2009 were reviewed. All patients received neoadjuvant doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and/or taxane-based chemotherapy, and mastec...

This study examined the performance of 701 low-income African American preschoolers (36 to 52 months old) on the Preschool Language Scale-3 (PLS-3, I. L. Zimmerman, V. G. Steiner, & R. E. Pond, 1992). On average, African American children performed about 1 SD below the expected means for their ages on both the Expressive Communication and Auditory Comprehension subscales. Independent sample t t...

Laboratory studies of psychopathy have yielded an impressive array of etiologically relevant findings. To date, however, attempts to demonstrate the generalizability of these findings to African American psychopathic offenders have been largely unsuccessful. The fear deficit has long been regarded as the hallmark of psychopathy, yet the generalizability of this association to African American o...

BACKGROUND The study of breast cancer in women with African ancestry offers the promise of identifying markers for risk assessment and treatment of triple-negative disease. METHODS African American and white American women with invasive cancer diagnosed at the Henry Ford Health System comprised the primary study population, and Ghanaian patients diagnosed and/or treated at the Komfo Anokye Te...

F or the past 30 years, the United States has experienced a steady increase in the number of persons incarcerated in federal, state, and local prisons. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the number of persons incarcerated in the United States almost tripled between 1980 and 1994. Between 1994 and 2008, this number continued to expand at a rate of 2.4% each year. With the widening tren...

PURPOSE This study examines the influence of discrimination and mastery on depressive symptoms for African American men at young (18-34), middle (35-54), and late (55+) adulthood. METHOD Analyses are based on responses from 1,271 African American men from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL). RESULTS Discrimination was significantly related to depressive symptoms for men ages 35 to 5...

BERMANN FRANCOIS HIV in African American women: Evidence that elevated rate of infection cannot be explained solely on the basis of known individual risk behaviors. (Under the direction of Dr Ike Okosun, Faculty Member) Objective: To compare known individual risk behaviors in African American, Whites, and Hispanic women as found in the literature and support those findings by analyzing data ava...