Neighborhood social environment as risk factors to health behavior among African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have focused on the impact of neighborhood social environment on changes in smoking and alcohol use over time among African Americans.

Method

Jackson Heart Study participants were recruited from the Jackson, MS metropolitan area from 2000 to 2004. Neighborhood social environment was characterized using census-based neighborhood socio-economic status (NSES) and survey-derived perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion, disorder, and violence. Multinomial logistic regression was used to estimate the associations of neighborhood social environment with prevalence of smoking and alcohol use and with changes in these behaviors over time adjusted for individual sociodemographic characteristics.

Results

Participants (N=3166) resided in 108 census trac

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5546244 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature