IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/socmed/v18y1984i6p487-490.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Ethnicity in the reported pain, emotional distress and requests of medical outpatients

Author

Listed:
  • Koopman, Cheryl
  • Eisenthal, Sherman
  • Stoeckle, John D.

Abstract

Relationships of patents' ethnicity to their reported pain, emotional distress and requests were investigated. When patients aged over 60 years were compared. Italian-Americans were found to more frequently report pain than were Anglo-Americans; however, this difference was not replicated in the younger patients of Italian and Anglo backgrounds. In addition to patients' age, their sex also was found to mediate the relationship of ethnicity to the expression of pain. In particular, older female Italian-Americans were likely to report pain while, in contrast, older male Anglo-Americans were not. Age and sex may be important mediators of ethnic differences because older and female patients may carry on ethnic traditions more than do younger and male patients. Ethnicity was not found to be significantly related to emotional distress and requests.

Suggested Citation

  • Koopman, Cheryl & Eisenthal, Sherman & Stoeckle, John D., 1984. "Ethnicity in the reported pain, emotional distress and requests of medical outpatients," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 18(6), pages 487-490, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:18:y:1984:i:6:p:487-490
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277-9536(84)90005-4
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. G.W. Stuart & S. Klimidis & I.H. Minas, 1998. "The Treated Prevalence of Mental Disorder Amongst Immigrants and the Australian-Born: Community and Primary-Care Rates," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 44(1), pages 22-34, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:18:y:1984:i:6:p:487-490. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.