EXPLORING HOW INTERPERSONAL FACTORS SHAPE HEALTH BEHAVIORS AMONG HISPANIC OLDER ADULTS: A SCOPING REVIEW

Barbara Mendez Campos, Karen Lyons, Bruna Lopez · 2024

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Barbara Mendez Campos and co-authors review how family and friends shape health habits of older Hispanic adults in a 2024 paper. This fast-growing group carries heavy chronic disease loads, and its cultural values are deeply relational. Thirty-nine studies met the bar across six databases.

Values like familismo and respeto are usually filed as private traits, but the review reads them between people, where they actually operate. Adherence to each value varies widely, and effects on diet, movement, and care-seeking vary with it. The authors push for research that measures the relationship, not just the person.

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CREATORBarbara Mendez Campos, Karen Lyons, Bruna Lopez
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE2 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11688869

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