Nutritional issues of Korean Americans

Clinical Nursing Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 162-180

  Shin, Cha Nam ^a   Lach, Helen ^b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acculturation; eating habits; health; Korean Americans

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 79954556511     PISSN: 10547738     EISSN: 15523799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1054773810393334     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Aldenderfer, M.S., & Blashfield, R.K. (1984). Cluster analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series No. 44). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2. Badger, T.A., & Collins-Joyce, P. (2000). Diminished ability of self-care depression, psychosocial resources, and functional ability in older adults. Clinical Nursing Research, 9, 238-255.
3. Berry, J.W. (1997). Immigration, acculturation, and adaptation. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 46(1), 5-68.
4. Berry, J.W., Phinney, J.S., Sam, D.L., & Vedder, P. (2006). Immigrant youth: Acculturation, identity, and adaptation. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 55, 303-332.
5. Bond, M.L., Jones, M.E., Cason, C., Campbell, P., & Hall, J. (2002). Acculturation effects on health promoting lifestyle behaviors among Hispanic origin pregnant women. Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health, 8(2), 61-68.
6. Callaghan, D.M. (2003). Health-promoting self-care behaviors, self-care self-efficacy, and self-care agency. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 247-254.
7. Cheak-Zamora, N.C., Wyrwich, K.W., & McBride, T.D. (2009). Reliability and validity of the SF-12vs in the medical expenditure panel survey. Quality of Life Research, 18, 727-735.
8. Cho, J., & Juon, H.-S. (2006). Assessing overweight and obesity risk among Korean Americans in California using World Health Organization Body Mass Index criteria for Asians. Preventing Chronic Disease, 3(3), 1-11.
9. Corral, I., & Landrine, H. (2008). Acculturation and ethnic-minority health behavior: A test of the operant model. Health Psychology, 27, 737-745.
10. Duffy, M.E. (2006). Translating instruments into other languages. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 20, 225-226.
11. Fitzgerald, N., Damio, G., Segura-Perez, S., & Perez-Escamilla, R. (2008). Nutrition knowledge, food label use, and food intake patterns among Latinas with and without type 2 diabetes. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 108, 960-967.
12. Fowles, E.R., & Feucht, J. (2004). Testing the Barriers to Healthy Eating Scale. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 26, 429-443.
13. Gillman, M.W., Pinto, B.M., Tennstedt, S., Glanz, K., Marcus, B., & Friedman, R.H. (2001). Relationships of physical activity with dietary behaviors among adults. Preventive Medicine, 32, 295-301.
14. Goel, M.S., McCarthy, E.P., Phillips, R.S., & Wee, C.C. (2004). Obesity among U.S. immigrant subgroups by duration of residence. Journal of American Medical Association, 292, 2860-2867.
15. Gordon, B.H.J., Kang, M.S.Y., Cho, P., & Sucher, K.P. (2000). Dietary habits and health beliefs of Korean-Americans in the San Francisco bay area. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 100, 1198-1201.
16. Hair, J.F., Anderson, R.E., Tatham, R.L., & Black, W.C. (1998). Multivariate data analysis (5th ed.). New Jersey, NJ: Prentice Hall.
17. Hu, L., & Bentler, P.M. (1995). Evaluating model fit. In R. H. Hoyle (Ed.), Structural equation modeling: Concepts, issues, and applications (pp. 76-99). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
18. Hulme, P.A., Walker, S.N., Effle, K.J., Jorgensen, L., McGowan, M.G., Nelson, J.D., & Pratt, E.N. (2003). Health-promoting lifestyle behaviors of Spanish-speaking Hispanic adults. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 14, 244-254.
19. Hurh, W.M. (1998). The new Americans: The Korean Americans. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
20. Jang, Y., Kim, G., Chiriboga, D., & Kallimanis, B. (2007). A bidimensional model of acculturation for Korean American older adults. Journal of Aging Studies, 21, 267-275.
21. Johnson, R.L. (2005). Gender differences in health-promoting lifestyles of African Americans. Public Health Nursing, 22, 130-137.
22. Juon, H.S., Choi, Y., & Kim, M.T. (2000). Cancer screening behaviors among Korean-American women. Cancer Detect Prevention, 24, 589-601.
23. Kim, J., & Chan, M. (2004). Acculturation and dietary habits of Korean Americans. British Journal of Nutrition, 91, 469-478.
24. Kim, K.K., Yu, E.S.H., Chen, E.H., Cross, N., Kim, J., & Brintnall, R.A. (2000). Nutritional status of Korean Americans: Implications for cancer risk. Oncology Nursing Forum, 27, 1573-1583.
25. Kim, M.J., Ahn, Y.-H., Chon, C., Bowen, P., & Khan, S. (2005). Health disparities in lifestyle choices among hypertensive Korean Americans, Non-Hispanic Whites, and Blacks. Biological Research for Nursing, 7(1), 67-74.
26. Kim, M.J., Cho, H.-I., Cheon-Klessig, Y.S., Gerace, L.M., & Camilleri, D.D. (2002). Primary health care for Korean immigrants: Sustaining a culturally sensitive model. Public Health Nursing, 19, 191-200.
27. Kim, M.T., Juon, H.S., Hill, M.N., Post, W., & Kim, K.B. (2001). Cardiovascular disease risk factors in Korean American elders. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 23, 269-282.
28. Kim, M.T., Kim, K.B., Juon, H.S., & Hill, M.N. (2000). Prevalence and factors associated with high blood pressure in Korean Americans. Ethnicity & Disease, 10, 364-374.
29. Lee, S.K. (1997). Acculturation, diet, and health in Korean Americans (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
30. Mainous, A.G., III, Diaz, V.A., & Geesey, M.E. (2008). Acculturation and healthy lifestyle among Latinos with diabetes. Annals of Family Medicine, 6(2), 131-137.
31. Monroe, K.R., Hankin, J.H., Pike, M.C., Henderson, B.E., Stram, D.O., Park, S.,. Kolonel, L.N. (2003). Correlation of dietary intake and colorectal cancer incidence among Mexican-American migrants: The multiethnic cohort study. Nutrition and Cancer, 45(2), 133-147.
32. Park, S.-Y., Murphy, S.P., Sharma, S., & Kolonel, L.N. (2005). Dietary intakes and health-related behaviors of Korean American women born in the USA and Korea: The multiethnic cohort study. Public Health Nutrition, 8, 904-911.
33. Pender, N.J., Murdaugh, C.L., & Parsons, M.A. (2006). Health Promotion in Nursing Practice (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
34. Piven, M.L., Anderson, R.A., Colón-Emeric, C.S., & Sandelowski, M. (2008). Certified nursing assistants' explanatory models of nursing home resident depression. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 30, 653-672.
35. Pullen, C., Walker, S.N., & Fiandt, K. (2001). Determinants of health-promoting lifestyle behaviors in rural older women. Family & Community Health, 24(2), 49-72.
36. Sallis, J.F., Pinski, R.B., Grossman, R.M., Patterson, T.L., & Nader, P.R. (1988). The development of self-efficacy scales for health related diet and exercise behaviors. Health Education Research, 3, 283-292.
37. Song, Y.J., Hofstetter, C.R., Hovell, M.F., Paik, H.Y., Park, H.R., Lee, J., & Irvin, V. (2004). Acculturation and health risk behaviors among Californians of Korean descent. Preventive Medicine, 39, 147-156.
38. Tucker, M., & Reicks, M. (2002). Exercise as a gateway behavior for healthful eating among older adults: An exploratory study. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 34(Suppl.), S14-S19.
39. U.S. Census Bureau. (2010). Race and Hispanic origin of the foreign-born population in the United States: 2007. Retrieved fromhttp://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/acs-11.pdf.
40. U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2010). Report of the dietary guidelines advisory committee on the dietary guidelines for Americans, 2010. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. Retrieved fromhttp://www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publications/DietaryGuidelines/2010/DGAC/Report/B-1-Introduction.pdf.
41. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2008). National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Retrieved fromhttp://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr08/Key.htm.
42. Walker, S.N., Pullen, C.H., Hertzog, M., Boeckner, L., & Hageman, P.A. (2006). Determinants of older rural women's activity and eating. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 28, 449-468.
43. Walker, S.N., Sechrist, K.R., & Pender, N.J. (1987). The health-promoting lifestyle profile: Development and psychometric characteristics. Nursing Research, 36(2), 76-80.
44. Ware, J.E., Jr., Kosinski, M., & Keller, S.D. (1996). A 12-item Short-Form Health Survey: Construction of scales and preliminary tests of reliability and validity. Medical Care, 34, 220-233.
45. Yang, E.J., Chung, H.K., Kim, W.Y., Bianchi, L., & Song, W.O. (2007). Chronic diseases and dietary changes in relation to Korean Americans' length of residence in the United States. Journal of American Dietetic Association, 107, 942-950.