TY - JOUR
T1 - Implications of Spanish interviews in health surveys as collected in the United States
T2 - The case of Self-Reported Health
AU - Santos-Lozada, Alexis R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) and the Population Research Institute (PRI) at the Pennsylvania State University. PRI is supported by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD041025) and by the Pennsylvania State University and its Social Science Research Institute. The author is supported by a Diversity Supplement granted through the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging by the National Institute on Aging (R24AG065159). If you like this paper, remember to tweet, share, and subscribe to my twitter @AppDemography. The author is thankful to Mr. Edmundo Torres-González (a.k.a. @EdmundoToGo) for his recommendations on the structures of the data visualizations.
Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) and the Population Research Institute (PRI) at the Pennsylvania State University. PRI is supported by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD041025) and by the Pennsylvania State University and its Social Science Research Institute. The author is supported by a Diversity Supplement granted through the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging by the National Institute on Aging (R24AG065159). If you like this paper, remember to tweet, share, and subscribe to my twitter @AppDemography. The author is thankful to Mr. Edmundo Torres-González (a.k.a. @EdmundoToGo) for his recommendations on the structures of the data visualizations. Ethics approval: The Institutional Review Board of The Pennsylvania State University approved this study and considered Non-Human Research (STUDY00020588). Financial disclosures: No disclosures were reported by the author of this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - This is an original investigation of self-reported health status among Hispanic adults from 1997 to 2018 in the United States (US). Previous research has shown there is a widening gap in poor/fair self-reported health between Hispanics who answer health surveys in English and those who answer in Spanish that cannot be explained by demographic/socioeconomic characteristics, assimilation or region of residence. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (1997–2018), this study explores the patterns underlying the recent increase in self-reported health among Hispanic adults in the United States by estimating the percent of the population reporting poor/fair health status by language of interview and place of birth. Central to this study is the use of ‘regular’ as a translation to “fair” which has been poised to be a non-equivalent translation. This investigation reveals that the increase is highly concentrated among non-US born Hispanic adults who answer health surveys in Spanish with increase in reports of “regular” health status driving this trend. The results presented in this short communication underscore the importance of language of interview when collecting key measures of health often employed to study health disparities.
AB - This is an original investigation of self-reported health status among Hispanic adults from 1997 to 2018 in the United States (US). Previous research has shown there is a widening gap in poor/fair self-reported health between Hispanics who answer health surveys in English and those who answer in Spanish that cannot be explained by demographic/socioeconomic characteristics, assimilation or region of residence. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (1997–2018), this study explores the patterns underlying the recent increase in self-reported health among Hispanic adults in the United States by estimating the percent of the population reporting poor/fair health status by language of interview and place of birth. Central to this study is the use of ‘regular’ as a translation to “fair” which has been poised to be a non-equivalent translation. This investigation reveals that the increase is highly concentrated among non-US born Hispanic adults who answer health surveys in Spanish with increase in reports of “regular” health status driving this trend. The results presented in this short communication underscore the importance of language of interview when collecting key measures of health often employed to study health disparities.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.102103
DO - 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.102103
M3 - Article
C2 - 36820376
AN - SCOPUS:85145965459
SN - 2211-3355
VL - 31
JO - Preventive Medicine Reports
JF - Preventive Medicine Reports
M1 - 102103
ER -