Open AccessOvert Perceived Discrimination and Racial Microaggressions and their Association with Health Risk Behaviors among a Sample of Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Adolescents
Author(s) -
Daniel Dickerson,
Ryan Brown,
David J. Klein,
Denis Agniel,
Carrie L. Johnson,
Elizabeth J. D’Amico
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.644
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2197-3792
pISSN - 2196-8837
DOI - 10.1007/s40615-019-00572-1
Subject(s) - mental health , medicine , environmental health , public health , logistic regression , substance use , suicide prevention , population , occupational safety and health , gerontology , injury prevention , affect (linguistics) , poison control , demography , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , nursing , sociology , communication , pathology
Urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adolescents are an understudied population in the USA who are at risk for a variety of health problems. Perceived discrimination (PD), including both overt PD and racial microaggressions (RMA), is known to adversely affect health. However, studies analyzing associations between overt PD and RMA and various health behaviors are limited.