Adapting the everyday discrimination scale to medical settings: reliability and validity testing in a sample of African American patients.
Peek ME, Nunez-Smith M, Drum M, Lewis TT. Adapting the everyday discrimination scale to medical settings: reliability and validity testing in a sample of African American patients. Ethnicity & Disease 2011, 21: 502-9. PMID: 22428358, PMCID: PMC3350778.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAfrican American patientsTest-retest reliabilityAmerican patientsMedical settingsEpidemiologic Studies Depression ScaleCross-sectional studyHealth Care ScaleAcademic medical centerHealth care settingsConvergent validityInternal consistencyHealth care systemExcellent internal consistencyCare ScaleBaseline interviewCare settingsDepression ScaleMedical CenterDiscriminant validityHealth disparitiesPatientsKey subscalesCare systemDiscrimination ScaleEveryday Discrimination Scale