Filtering by
- Creators: Barrett, The Honors College
- Creators: Arizona State University. College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation
Language has a critical role as a social determinant of health and a source of healthcare disparities. Rhetorical devices are ubiquitous in medicine and are often used to persuade or inform care team members. Rhetorical devices help a healthcare team acknowledge and interpret narratives. For example, metaphors are frequently used as rhetorical devices by patients to describe cancer, including winning or losing a battle, surviving a fight, war, potentially implying that the patient feels helpless like a pawn fighting in a struggle directed by the physician, thus reducing patient autonomy and agency. However, this occidental approach is flawed because it excessively focuses on the individual's agency and marginalizes external factors, such as cultural beliefs and social support (Sontag, 1989). Although there is a large body of research about how the rhetoric of medicine affects patients in the United States, there is a lack of such research about how patient experiences' rhetoric can help increase the understanding of Latino populations' unique social determinants. This creative project aims to analyze the rhetorical differences in the description of disease amongst Latino and American communities, translating to creating an educational module for a Spanish for biomedical sciences class. The objective is to increase future healthcare professionals' ability to understand how the composition of descriptions and medical rhetoric in different mediums of humanities can serve as critical tools to analyze social determinants in Latino healthcare delivery.
![135898-Thumbnail Image.png](https://d1rbsgppyrdqq4.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/styles/width_400/public/2021-05/135898-Thumbnail%20Image.png?versionId=wJY1EnITD.6Zwo9Kigip7Uo9iMvMHwj7&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIASBVQ3ZQ42ZLA5CUJ/20240618/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240618T050548Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=120&X-Amz-Signature=074da4b347df348cfcb553959d86fac8c08b7d394b394bba53bd26c66c6fb19e&itok=pfpNoc8P)
![136786-Thumbnail Image.png](https://d1rbsgppyrdqq4.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/styles/width_400/public/2021-05/136786-Thumbnail%20Image.png?versionId=6iha5kGA6CGLzK7OPM4.O4kEv8AgKHIw&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIASBVQ3ZQ42ZLA5CUJ/20240619/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240619T082031Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=120&X-Amz-Signature=a385ee14c50865cf17c708da5999ff2ebc8874c49c5a63b3b045c4e0a9cd8739&itok=xQmWB4A1)
![136998-Thumbnail Image.png](https://d1rbsgppyrdqq4.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/styles/width_400/public/2021-05/136998-Thumbnail%20Image.png?versionId=PY9Qj2MkGxt8JtAOpQyK1QHCAkBtpDf9&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIASBVQ3ZQ42ZLA5CUJ/20240619/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240619T083328Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=120&X-Amz-Signature=af3d969dc687f833f3691658bc91654ecfdca5867c2ab66c90869e315361cf2f&itok=N1u0gd5W)
![137000-Thumbnail Image.png](https://d1rbsgppyrdqq4.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/styles/width_400/public/2021-05/137000-Thumbnail%20Image.png?versionId=YvxBb912M.xw4B8q7B3xnatUrLXuOWw0&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIASBVQ3ZQ42ZLA5CUJ/20240619/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240619T090938Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=120&X-Amz-Signature=68f880b3d5cbf50f25e7a0cd5e5395ef516368b06d16f7064426e58344d4ed72&itok=vxT0U95F)
Hispanic Men's Perspectives Related to Health, Physical Activity, and Nutrition: A Qualitative Study
![137101-Thumbnail Image.png](https://d1rbsgppyrdqq4.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/styles/width_400/public/2021-05/137101-Thumbnail%20Image.png?versionId=i04fkqbcQmX7v8k3o66IE1tZt_ZgUQQh&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIASBVQ3ZQ42ZLA5CUJ/20240619/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240619T090938Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=120&X-Amz-Signature=92fccf8e489b17944edd2530a5e48431c2ef1560d67ef81bdec1cd1b7cde7354&itok=QQGmMS4s)
![137709-Thumbnail Image.png](https://d1rbsgppyrdqq4.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/styles/width_400/public/2021-05/137709-Thumbnail%20Image.png?versionId=ZmdM1O.BYDxLHe4LDBjm8ZaUgNWsvDuJ&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIASBVQ3ZQ42ZLA5CUJ/20240530/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240530T154339Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=120&X-Amz-Signature=84fd5dd5e6b0b162e9ffe62c8fe4f927703515001f641749b7a90f9b1f069361&itok=Kx9eY2DC)
public health sphere.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews were collected from 55 adults from the South Phoenix community between November 2009 and September 2010. Interviews were digitally recorded with participant permission and transcribed. Of those collected, 48 transcribed interviews were analyzed using a codebook designed by the researcher. Percent agreement evaluated inter-rater reliability.Results: Latino immigrants in South Phoenix largely agree that health quality is heavily dependent on personal responsibility and not an intrinsic attribute of a given place. Emotional contentedness and distress, both factors of mental health, are impacted by cross-cultural differences between Latino and U.S. culture systems.
Conclusions: As people’s personal perceptions of differences in health are complex concepts influenced by personal backgrounds, culture, and beliefs, attempting to demark a side of the border as ‘healthier’ than the other using personal perceptions is overly simplified and misses central concepts. Instead, exploration of individual variables impacting health allowed this study to gain a more nuanced understanding in how people determine quality of both personal and environmental health. While Latino migrants in South Phoenix largely agree that health is based on personal responsibility and choices, many nonetheless experience higher levels of contentedness and emotional health in their country of origin.
![137364-Thumbnail Image.png](https://d1rbsgppyrdqq4.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/styles/width_400/public/2021-05/137364-Thumbnail%20Image.png?versionId=Iq2IwVnut34XRq1NHsY0IJMW8g7ZOVra&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIASBVQ3ZQ42ZLA5CUJ/20240619/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240619T045715Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=120&X-Amz-Signature=23478995a9547a1d3349e75f9209594173d5eb553774ed5fa0e8947bc42499dc&itok=nUrkGrVN)
![137252-Thumbnail Image.png](https://d1rbsgppyrdqq4.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/styles/width_400/public/2021-05/137252-Thumbnail%20Image.png?versionId=Rw3ZnIKs7mLeAnofYCl5O.FkIZBM7cBl&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIASBVQ3ZQ42ZLA5CUJ/20240619/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240619T035534Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=120&X-Amz-Signature=642d33499fce74ba6a48980a491accafa8bbe04358ec1081ee21796b2bfeedd9&itok=q_H2k_aI)
![137485-Thumbnail Image.png](https://d1rbsgppyrdqq4.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/styles/width_400/public/2021-05/137485-Thumbnail%20Image.png?versionId=zWiYKBaK2DQT7p_q16iBQi2IlH2Ohboz&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIASBVQ3ZQ42ZLA5CUJ/20240619/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240619T090938Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=120&X-Amz-Signature=ed2c1c7b785e12c71383f6c3fc959661c3ebdfeb9902763af5d11bb39d9a825a&itok=e5OZuwsQ)
Pediatric obesity is associated with lower quality of life (QOL) and populations with high obesity rates, such as Latinos, are especially vulnerable. We examined the effects of a 12-week diabetes prevention program on changes in weight-specific QOL in Latino youth.
Method:
Fifteen obese Latino adolescents (BMI%=96.3±1.1;age=15.0±1.0) completed a 12-week intervention. Youth completed weight-specific QOL measures at baseline, post intervention, and 1-year follow-up. For comparison purposes, intervention youth were matched for age and gender with lean controls.
Results:
At baseline, obese youth exhibited significantly lower weight-specific QOL compared with lean youth (70.8±5.4 to 91.2±2.2, p<0.005). The intervention did not significantly impact weight (90.6±6.8 to 89.9±7.2kg, p=0.44). However, significant increases in weight-specific QOL were observed (70.8±20.9 to 86.2±16.9, p<0.001). Post-intervention QOL scores were no longer significantly different than lean controls (P=0.692). Data from nine youth who returned for follow-up indicated that increases in weight-specific QOL were maintained over time (90.5±4.5 to 85.8±5.9, p=0.74).
Conclusion:
These results indicate that a community-based diabetes prevention program can result in sustained improvements in weight-specific QOL among obese Latino youth. Lifestyle interventions that focus on social interaction and physical activity, rather than weight-loss per se, may help improve the psychosocial health of obese Latino youth.