Adapting the everyday discrimination scale to medical settings: Reliability and validity testing in a sample of African American patients

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 502-509

  Peek, Monica E ^a,b   Nunez Smith, Marcella ^c   Drum, Melinda ^b   Lewis, Tené T ^c  

^a Section of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care delivery; Health care discrimination; Health disparities; Race ethnicity; Survey research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINATION IN MEDICAL SETTINGS SCALE; EVERYDAY DISCRIMINATION SCALE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84860247886     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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