Open AccessReported Racial Discrimination, Trust in Physicians, and Medication Adherence Among Inner-City African Americans With Hypertension
Author(s) -
Yendelela Cuffee,
J. Lee Hargraves,
Milagros C. Rosal,
Becky A. Briesacher,
Antoinette Schoenthaler,
Sharina D. Person,
Sandral Hullett,
Jeroan J. Allison
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2013.301554
Subject(s) - medicine , distrust , confidence interval , psychological intervention , african american , logistic regression , medication adherence , ethnic group , scale (ratio) , family medicine , ordered logit , demography , psychiatry , psychology , ethnology , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , sociology , anthropology , computer science , psychotherapist , history
We sought to determine if reported racial discrimination was associated with medication nonadherence among African Americans with hypertension and if distrust of physicians was a contributing factor.