The Relation between Satisfaction with Appearance and Race and Ethnicity: A National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research Burn Model System Study

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• Alternative Title:
  Burns
• Personal Author:
  Mata-Greve, Felicia ; Wiechman, Shelley A. ; McMullen, Kara ; Roaten, Kimberly ; Carrougher, Gretchen J. ; Gibran, Nicole S.
• Description:
  Research supports that people of color in the U.S. have poorer outcomes after burn injury compared to White individuals. The current study sought to explore burn health disparities by testing the relationship between racial and ethnic minority status, a proxy for systemic discrimination due to race and ethnicity, with two key constructs linked to functional outcomes, satisfaction with appearance and social community integration. Participants included 1318 burn survivors from the Burn Model System National Database (mean age = 40.2, SD = 12.7). Participants completed measures of satisfaction with appearance and social community integration at baseline, 6-, 12-, and 24-months after burn injury. Linear regressions revealed that racial and ethnic minority status significantly related to lower satisfaction with appearance and social community integration compared to White individuals at all time points. In addition, satisfaction with appearance continued to significantly relate to greater social community integration even while accounting for race and ethnicity, age, sex, burn size, and physical disability at 6-, 12-, and 24-month time points. Overall, the study supports that racial and ethnic minority burn survivors report greater dissatisfaction with their appearance and lower social community reintegration after burn injury.
• Subjects:
  Adult Burns Ethnicity Humans Independent Living Minority Groups Personal Satisfaction Rehabilitation Research
• Keywords:
  Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project Antiviral Agents Burn Injury Community Integration Ethnicity Herpes Simplex Human Papillomavirus Race Satisfaction With Appearance Torque Teno Viruses Whole Exome Sequencing Whole Genome Sequencing

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• Source:
  Burns. 48(2):345-354
• Pubmed ID:
  34903410
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9007822
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  90DPBU0004/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; T32 MH020021/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP000053/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  48
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:047c5b0a6f86d6f38a88a3708dcc058f7da77e0b21d388c1b7fcad17e7ca0495a42f70760d0789c6c98e0ba41f66498ff8256fe7c4798687dd97b0d9d403b4b6
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/116464/cdc_116464_DS1.pdf
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