Racial segregation and genomics-related knowledge, self-efficacy, perceived importance, and communication among medically underserved patients.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

There is limited research on the relationship between structural environmental factors and genomics-related knowledge, self-efficacy, perceived importance, and communication. We examined the potential impact of racial segregation on these genomics-related outcomes among medically underserved patients.

Methods

We analyzed data from a sample of 546 patients recruited from a primary care clinic in St. Louis, Missouri. Multivariable models were used to examine associations between racial composition of social environments across the life course and genomics-related knowledge, self-efficacy, perceived importance, and communication.

Results

Non-Hispanic White patients reporting multiple past White social environments had higher genetic knowledge than non-Hispanic Wh

SUBMITTER: Bather JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11613725 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature