Ann Arbor : Alliant International University, 2016.
Pages:
236
Language:
English
Abstract:
Abstract Since the resettlement of the Hmong in the United States over 30 years ago, a number of articles have explained how health care providers can be culturally sensitive and use recommended strategies to provide the most appropriate, effective, preventive, and quality health care services to the Hmong population. These articles have focused specifically on medical conditions and/or diseases; however, little is known about the health care behavior and the overall perceived health of the Hmong population in Sacramento, California since their initial migration to the United States. This study investigated relationships between acculturation and the health care behavior among Hmong adults in Sacramento, California. This study also investigated how the interaction between gender and acculturation influenced their preferred type of treatments and overall perceived health status. The Hmong participants were recruited from two distinguished Hmong outreach programs serving the Sacramento area that provide community services to the Hmong. At the request of the agencies' administrators and officers, the following format was suggested and conducted: each participant was met individually (by the researcher or researcher's assistants) to: complete the screening process, which included a series of questions asked for the purposes of recruiting the participant based on eligibility; provide the consent forms and explanation of the study to the participants; administer the instruments for measurement; debrief after the study; and finally, a gift card was offered to each participant. The demographic data collected from the Hmong participants for this research were analyzed using the means and standard deviations for continuous variables such as the participant's age and their length of stay in the United States. Frequencies were used to analyze the dichotomous variables: gender and other categorical variables such as last name or clan association, dialect of the participant, gender, marital status, religion, immigration status, citizenship/naturalization status, level of education, employment status, socio-economic status, and the participant's family organization in the household. A Pearson correlation and a two-way factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) were utilized to find the significant relationships between the continuous variables (the levels of acculturation, preferred types of health care treatment scores, and the overall perceived health status), using a two-sided, alpha level of 0.05 and 0.01 for the variables as predicted in this study. No variables were manipulated in this study.