Ethnicity in the reported pain, emotional distress and requests of medical outpatients

Cheryl Koopman, Sherman Eisenthal and John D. Stoeckle

Social Science & Medicine, 1984, vol. 18, issue 6, 487-490

Abstract: Relationships of patents' ethnicity to their reported pain, emotional distress and requests were investigated. When patients aged over 60 years were compared. Italian-Americans were found to more frequently report pain than were Anglo-Americans; however, this difference was not replicated in the younger patients of Italian and Anglo backgrounds. In addition to patients' age, their sex also was found to mediate the relationship of ethnicity to the expression of pain. In particular, older female Italian-Americans were likely to report pain while, in contrast, older male Anglo-Americans were not. Age and sex may be important mediators of ethnic differences because older and female patients may carry on ethnic traditions more than do younger and male patients. Ethnicity was not found to be significantly related to emotional distress and requests.

Date: 1984
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