Acculturation, Stress and Birth Outcomes in Mexican and Mexican American Women

Online Journal of Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare Volume 6, Number 1 (2016) Acculturation, Stress and Birth Outcomes in Mexican and Mexican American Women

Conclusion Pregnancy-related distress was able to penetrate all lines of defense and impacted the core per Neuman’s Systems Model. Women who had strong spiritual coping and a sense of belonging were able to deflect stress and thus protect their core resulting in healthy birth outcomes. Nurses could thus promote healthier birth outcomes by focusing on social support and coping, especially with w...

Family cohesion, acculturation, maternal cortisol, and preterm birth in Mexican-American women

OBJECTIVE To examine the potential moderating effects of family cohesion and acculturation on the physiological stress response (cortisol) as a predictor of preterm birth (PTB) in pregnant Mexican-American women. METHODS The sample included 470 participants; 33 had preterm births. All participants were self-identified as Mexican-American. In this cross-sectional study, family cohesion was mea...

Acculturation Status and Substance Use Prevention with Mexican and Mexican-American Youth.

This study examined whether language preference, as an indicator of acculturation, moderated the effects of a culturally grounded substance use prevention intervention for Mexican and Mexican American middle school students (N = 2,146) in Phoenix, Arizona. The main hypothesis was that levels of program effectiveness would vary based on the language preference of the students and the specific cu...

Acculturation, gender, and alcohol use among Mexican American college students.

Prior research with non-college samples of Mexican Americans has demonstrated that gender moderates the association between acculturation and alcohol use. We replicated this finding in a college student sample and attempted to account for the differential impact of acculturation on Mexican American men and women by examining the mediating effects of social context, family conflict and psycholog...

Dietary Acculturation and Health Outcomes of Mexican Immigrants