Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration

Roberts, Elizabeth

doi:10.1111/aman.13560

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“…In 2012, caloric beverages including unsweetened milk products accounted for 17.5% of total energy intake for children and adolescents ages 1 to 19, with flavored milk beverages, caloric soda, and high-fat milk being the top three contributors [ 2 ]. SSB intake among adolescents in Mexico is thought to be high for several reasons, including mistrust of water safety, family members’ preferences for SSBs, low SSB prices, and availability of SSB products compared to unsweetened beverages [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]. Interventions to reduce SSB intake, particularly among adolescents, included a national 10% sugar tax enacted in 2014.…”

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Changes in Sugar Sweetened Beverage Intake Are Associated with Changes in Body Composition in Mexican Adolescents: Findings from the ELEMENT Cohort

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Changes in consumption of sugar sweetened beverage (SSBs) have been associated with increased body mass index (BMI), but little work has evaluated the effect on waist circumference (WC) and body fat percentage during adolescence, a period characterized by rapid growth and change in dietary behaviors. We examined the relationship of changes in SSB intake and changes in adiposity over two years in 464 Mexican adolescents. Food frequency questionnaires were used to sum intake of regular soda, coffee with sugar, tea with sugar, sweetened water with fruit, chocolate milk, corn atole, and a sweetened probiotic milk beverage. Linear regression models were used to estimate the associations of changes in SSBs with changes in BMI, body fat percentage, and WC, adjusting for sex, socioeconomic status, screen time, physical activity, age, and change in age. Adolescents who increased their daily SSB intake by >2 serving had a −2.72% higher body fat percentage (95% CI: 0.61, 4.82); a 1–2 serving increase was associated with a 2.49 cm increase (95% CI: 0.21, 4.76) in WC compared with those with no change in intake. Within an adolescent sample, changes in SSB intake were related to concomitant changes in body fat percentage and WC, but not BMI.

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Changes in Sugar Sweetened Beverage Intake Are Associated with Changes in Body Composition in Mexican Adolescents: Findings from the ELEMENT Cohort

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“…This "indifference" is what enables comparisons of specific life experiences and correlated biomarkers. A broader consideration of the residues of shared experiences and relations that are currently considered subthreshold in MGSS models-because "a little bit of something is not the same as none at all" (Boudia et al 2018: 169)could begin to resituate the indifferent studies of biomarkers in the processes that make their numbers significant (Roberts 2021). Tracing the transgressive and unpredictable residues and lasting imprints of chemical kinships offers, moreover, a means for researchers in anthropology, science and technology studies, and molecular biology to consider the impacts of life and life processes (Roberts 2021) and to offer an alternative to the loaded languages of damage and resilience, while speaking to broader concerns about complex trauma and trauma-informed care (Cloitre et al 2009;Edwards et al 2019).…”

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“…A broader consideration of the residues of shared experiences and relations that are currently considered subthreshold in MGSS models—because “a little bit of something is not the same as none at all” (Boudia et al. 2018: 169)—could begin to resituate the indifferent studies of biomarkers in the processes that make their numbers significant (Roberts 2021). Tracing the transgressive and unpredictable residues and lasting imprints of chemical kinships offers, moreover, a means for researchers in anthropology, science and technology studies, and molecular biology to consider the impacts of life and life processes (Roberts 2021) and to offer an alternative to the loaded languages of damage and resilience, while speaking to broader concerns about complex trauma and trauma‐informed care (Cloitre et al.…”

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Shared Relations: Trauma and Kinship in the Afterlife of Death

Lloyd¹,

Larivée

2021

Med Anthropol Q

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Since 2013, we have studied the logic and narratives of an environmental epigenetics research team that studies the correlations between early childhood adversity (ECA), specific biomarkers, and suicide risk. Within this research program, kin of the deceased participate in psychological autopsies, which researchers use to establish to classify the deceased within a typology of suicide with or without abuse. We focus on the words of these family respondents and their reflections on the life and death of their loved ones, and life after that death, to consider the slippery, transgressive, and relational character of trauma and its effects. Studies of the residues of past experiences provide crucial insights into the complex, unpredictable, and unsettled nature of kin relations. These relations are based in entwined biographies of the living and the dead and illustrate the holds that people have on each other and destabilize biomedical models of individualized trajectories of suicide risk. [suicide, psychological autopsies, trauma, care, kinship]

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“…While many anthropologists may hold such quantitative techniques to be suspect, much of US governmental policy is guided by quantitative analysis. We think anthropological theories can improve these quantitative analyses, but that without some effort at quantification, full policy impacts for anthropological praxis are unlikely (Roberts 2021 ). In part, policymakers require somewhat concrete forms of analysis to justify what can be highly contentious public‐health decisions.…”

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Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey

Matthews

Nowak

Gidengil

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American Anthropologist

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We conducted a nationally representative survey of parents' beliefs and self-2 reported behaviors regarding childhood vaccinations. Using Bayesian selection among 3 multivariate models, we found that beliefs, even those without any vaccine or health content, 4 predicted vaccine hesitant behaviors better than demographics, social network effects, or 5 scientific reasoning. The multivariate structure of beliefs combined many types of ideation that 6 included concerns about both conspiracies and side effects. Although they are not strongly related 7 to vaccine hesitance behavior, demographics were key predictors of beliefs. Our findings suggest 8 pro-vaccination messaging strategies previously proposed by anthropologists and others not 9 previously considered. 10 11 12 24 2015; Teoh et al. 2019), the use of dramatic narratives and/or graphic images of vaccine-25 preventable diseases may have no effect (Teoh et al. 2019) or may backfire by reinforcing already 26 entrenched concerns about vaccine safety (Opel et al. 2019; Nyhan et al. 2014). These findings 27 should lead us to question the root origins of vaccine hesitancy. Does it arise fromPage 1 of 43 American Anthropologist understandings/misunderstandings of science, from dis/trust of the medical establishment or 29 government, historically rooted experiences of oppression, outright viral misinformation? It is 30 easy, absent considering empirical data, to postulate many such seemingly plausible single-cause 31 explanations. 32 From a research process standpoint, these null and backfire findings suggest the public 33 health community may have moved too quickly to experimental techniques that can establish 34 causal inference without observational research needed to induce (rather than deduce) data-driven 35 hypotheses about how beliefs and experiences surround vaccination behaviors. Perspectives from 36 social science might help inform vaccination policy by bringing stronger theory and/or broader 37 empirical findings from studies that focus on observational rather than experimental research 38 methods. Findings from these studies, however, vary dramatically by academic discipline. 39 Upon reviewing the social science literature on vaccine hesitance, it becomes clear that 40 although socio-cultural anthropology and psychology have both investigated the phenomenon, 41 they have arrived at radically different explanations for it. Anthropological studies have 42 emphasized multiple dimensions of parental concerns, understandings, and confidences that 43 encompass relative trust and distrust of medical systems, sources of information, and parent's 44 tendencies to accept social norms. In a manner typical of anthropologists, these studies have 45 employed diverse and mostly qualitative methods tailored to each study context (Leach and 46

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Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration

Cited by 23 publications

References 73 publications

Changes in Sugar Sweetened Beverage Intake Are Associated with Changes in Body Composition in Mexican Adolescents: Findings from the ELEMENT Cohort

Changes in Sugar Sweetened Beverage Intake Are Associated with Changes in Body Composition in Mexican Adolescents: Findings from the ELEMENT Cohort

Shared Relations: Trauma and Kinship in the Afterlife of Death

Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey

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