Inequities in Family Quality of Life for African-American Families Raising Children with Disabilities

Algood, Carl L.; Davis, Amber

doi:10.1080/19371918.2018.1562399

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“…The studies included 3,491 participants. Three studies were conducted in the USA (Algood, 2013;Trivette et al, 1994;Trivette et al, 1990), two in Germany (Sarimski, 1997a(Sarimski, , 1997b, two in Portugal (Magina, 2011;Santo, 2017), and one each in Canada (Franks, 2007), Chile (Soto, 2013), India (Ara & Shah, 2015), Panama (Zelenka, 1994), Slovakia (Banovcinova & Gal, 2019), Spain (Guijarro, 2010), and South Africa (Koen, van Eeden, & Rothmann, 2013). Three of the studies were published in peer-reviewed journals, seven were dissertations or theses, one was a book chapter, and one was a conference proceeding.…”

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A meta-analytic investigation of the relationships between different dimensions of family strengths and personal and family well-being

Dunst

2021

JFamRes

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Objective: Evaluate the relationships between five family strengths dimensions (commitment, communication, cohesion, coping & competence) and personal and family well-being. Background: Noted family strengths experts contend that families who describe themselves as strong share a number of broad qualities or traits. Family strengths are viewed as internal resources that are hypothesized to be related to enhanced personal and family well-being. Method: Meta-analysis was used to determine the effect sizes between different family strengths dimensions and both parent and family well-being. The meta-analysis included 14 studies (N = 3,491 participants) conducted in 10 countries. The focus of analysis was the sizes of effects between each family strengths dimension and both parent and family well-being and whether the strengths of relations between family strengths and well-being differed for each family strength dimension. Results: Publication bias analysis indicated no differences in the sizes of effects for peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed research reports. Each of the family strengths dimensions was significantly related to both personal and family well-being. The size of effect for the relationship between family strengths and family well-being was larger than that for personal well-being. The between type of family strengths dimension analyses showed that the size of effect between family competence and personal and family well-being was smaller than those for each of the other family strengths dimensions. Conclusion: The findings support the hypothesis that different dimensions of family strengths are important predictors of personal and family well-being.

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A meta-analytic investigation of the relationships between different dimensions of family strengths and personal and family well-being

Dunst

2021

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“… Two articles adopt an ethnic perspective. Algood et al [ 70 ] address the issue of inequity in the care of African-American families compared to other ethnicities, while Holloway et al [ 69 ] study QoL in California among Latino and non-Latino families. Two articles relate the FQoL to perspectives of some of the family members.…”

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State of the Art of Family Quality of Life in Early Care and Disability: A Systematic Review

Mora

Ibáñez

Balcells‐Balcells

2020

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Background: In recent years, there has been a growing international interest in family quality of life The objective of this systematic review is to understand and analyze the conceptualization of the quality of life of families with children with disabilities between 0 and 6 years of age, the instruments for their measurement and the most relevant research results. Method: A bibliographic search was conducted in the Web of Science, Scopus and Eric databases of studies published in English and Spanish from 2000 to July 2019 focused on “family quality of life” or “quality of family life” in the disability field. A total of 63 studies were selected from a total of 1119 and analyzed for their theoretical and applied contributions to the field of early care. Results: The functional conceptualization of family quality of life predominates in this area, and a nascent and enriching holistic conceptualization is appreciated. There are three instruments that measure family quality of life in early care, although none of them is based on unified theory of FQoL; none of them focus exclusively on the age range 0–6 nor do they cover all disabilities. Conclusions: The need to deepen the dynamic interaction of family relationships and to understand the ethical requirement that the methods used to approach family quality of life respect the holistic nature of the research is noted.

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“…As a result, there has been increasing interest in understanding demographic, behavioral, and social factors that shape HRQoL across various populations [5,6,7]. There is also a particular interest in understanding the factors that can explain decline and those that can be used to enhance HRQoL of aging populations, particularly in demographic and social groups in which HRQoL is low [8,9,10,11,12,13]. Given the consistent disparities across multiple domains of health, African Americans (AAs) report worse HRQoL than Whites [14,15,16,17,18,19].…”

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Health-Related Quality of Life of Economically Disadvantaged African American Older Adults: Age and Gender Differences

Assari

Smith

Bazargan

2019

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Background: The association between age and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is still under debate. While some research shows older age is associated with better HRQoL, other studies show no or negative association between age and HRQoL. In addition, while the association between age and HRQoL may depend on race, ethnicity, gender, and their intersections, most previous research on this link has been performed in predominantly White Middle Class. Objective: To explore gender differences in the association between age and mental and physical HRQoL in a sample of economically disadvantaged African American (AA) older adults. Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted in South Los Angeles between 2015 to 2018. A total number of 740 economically disadvantaged AA older adults (age ≥ 55 years) were enrolled in this study, using non-random sampling. This includes 266 AA men and 474 AA women. The independent variable of interest was age. Dependent variables of interest were physical component scores (PCS) and mental component scores (MCS), two main summary scores of the HRQoL, measured using Short Form-12 (SF-12). Gender was the moderator. Socioeconomic status (educational attainment and financial difficulty) were covariates. Linear regression models were used to analyze the data. Results: AA women reported worse PCS; however, gender did not impact MCS. In the pooled sample, high age was associated with better PCS and MCS. In the pooled sample, a significant interaction was found between gender and age on PCS, suggesting a stronger effect of age on PCS for AA men than AA women. In gender-stratified models, older age was associated with better PCS for AA men but not AA women. Older age was similarly and positively associated with better MCS for AA men and women. Conclusions: There may be some gender differences in the implications of ageing for the physical HRQoL of AA older adults. It is unclear how old age may have a boosting effect on physical HRQoL for AA men but not AA women. Future research should test gender differences in the effect of age on physical health indicators such as chronic disease as well as cognitive processes involved in the evaluation of own’s health in AA men and women.

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Inequities in Family Quality of Life for African-American Families Raising Children with Disabilities

Cited by 13 publications

References 36 publications

A meta-analytic investigation of the relationships between different dimensions of family strengths and personal and family well-being

A meta-analytic investigation of the relationships between different dimensions of family strengths and personal and family well-being

State of the Art of Family Quality of Life in Early Care and Disability: A Systematic Review

Health-Related Quality of Life of Economically Disadvantaged African American Older Adults: Age and Gender Differences

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