Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2018
Lower life satisfaction, active coping and cardiovascular disease risk factors in older African Americans: outcomes of a longitudinal church-based intervention.
Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Life satisfaction as compared with traditional risk factors in relation to incident cardiovascular diseases.European journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Life satisfaction and the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the general Japanese population: the Suita Study.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2023Article
- The role of life satisfaction and living arrangements in the association between chronic disease and depression: a national cross-sectional survey.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Lower Life Satisfaction and Inflammation in African American Adults: Body Adiposity Mediation and Sex Moderation.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Antioxidant intake in relation to serum C-reactive protein in mid-life and older African Americans.Ethnicity & health · 2020Article
- Stress interventions and hypertension in Black women.Women's health (London, England)Review
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Abstract
This study examined lower life satisfaction, active coping and cardiovascular disease risk factors (diastolic and systolic blood pressure, body mass index, and circumferences) in older African Americans over the phases of an 18-month church-based intervention, using a quasi-experimental design. Participants (n = 89) were 45 years of age and older from six churches (three treatment, three comparison) in North Florida. Lower life satisfaction had a persistent unfavorable effect on weight variables. Active coping showed a direct beneficial effect on selected weight variables. However, active coping was adversely associated with blood pressure, and did not moderate the association between lower life satisfaction and cardiovascular risk factors. The intervention had a beneficial moderating influence on the association between lower life satisfaction and weight variables and on the association between active coping and these variables. Yet, this pattern did not hold for the association between active coping and blood pressure. The relationship of lower life satisfaction and selected cardiovascular risk factors and the positive effect of active coping were established, but findings regarding blood pressure suggest further study is needed.
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