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JSM 2002 Abstract #300888
Activity Number: 400
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 15, 2002 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics*
Abstract - #300888
Title: Factor Analysis of the Hazuda Acculturation Scale: How Good is it in Predicting Mammography Screening Among Older Mexican American Women From Southeast Texas?
Author(s): Shilpi Khan*+ and Daniel Freeman Jr. and Jean Freeman
Affiliation(s): University of Texas Medical Branch and University of Texas Medical Branch and University of Texas Medical Branch
Address: 700 Harborside-1.134 Ewing Hall, Galveston, Texas, 77555-1148, USA
Keywords: Acculturation ; Factor analysis ; Mexican Americans ; Mammography
Abstract:

Acculturation has been defined as the process whereby immigrants change their behavior and attitudes toward those of a host society. It is a fundamental part of migration-induced adaptations to a new socio-cultural environment. Measuring acculturation is important, not only as a way of identifying individual or personality differences, but also because it has been reported to be related to a variety of health variables, including public health screening. We used Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to assess the dimensionality of Hazuda's acculturation scale (Hazuda et al.1988). CFA could not confirm the fit of the hypothesized model. Therefore, we modified the scale based on Exploratory Factor Analysis. We assessed the predictive validity of the revised scale with logistic regression on country of birth and language of interview. The scale was assessed for the prediction of years of residence, using ordinary least squares. We modeled the association between mammography screening and acculturation with logistic regression. We found no statistically significant association between acculturation or language of interview and recent mammography screening after adjusting for several variables.


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