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Drinking and Driving among Recent Latino Immigrants: The Impact of Neighborhoods and Social Support

Latinos are disproportionately impacted by drinking and driving arrests and alcohol-related fatal crashes. Why, and how, these disparities occur remains unclear. The neighborhood environments that recent Latino immigrants encounter in their host communities can potentially influence health behaviors...

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Autores principales: Sanchez, Mariana, Romano, Eduardo, Dawson, Christyl, Huang, Hui, Sneij, Alicia, Cyrus, Elena, Rojas, Patria, Cano, Miguel Ángel, Brook, Judith, De La Rosa, Mario
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Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5129265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27801856
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13111055
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author Sanchez, Mariana
Romano, Eduardo
Dawson, Christyl
Huang, Hui
Sneij, Alicia
Cyrus, Elena
Rojas, Patria
Cano, Miguel Ángel
Brook, Judith
De La Rosa, Mario
author_facet Sanchez, Mariana
Romano, Eduardo
Dawson, Christyl
Huang, Hui
Sneij, Alicia
Cyrus, Elena
Rojas, Patria
Cano, Miguel Ángel
Brook, Judith
De La Rosa, Mario
author_sort Sanchez, Mariana
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description Latinos are disproportionately impacted by drinking and driving arrests and alcohol-related fatal crashes. Why, and how, these disparities occur remains unclear. The neighborhood environments that recent Latino immigrants encounter in their host communities can potentially influence health behaviors over time, including the propensity to engage in drinking and driving. This cross-sectional study utilizes a sample of 467 documented and undocumented adult recent Latino immigrants in the United States to answer the following research questions: (a) How do neighborhood-level factors, combined with social support, impact drinking and driving risk behaviors?; and (b) Does acculturative stress moderate the effects of those associations? Results indicate neighborhood-level factors (informal social control and social capital) have protective effects against drinking and driving risk behaviors via the mediating mechanism of social support. Acculturative stress moderated associations between neighborhood informal social control and social support, whereby the protective effects of informal social control on social support were not present for those immigrants with higher levels of acculturative stress. Our findings contribute to the limited knowledge of drinking and driving among Latino immigrants early in the immigration process and suggest that, in the process of developing prevention programs tailored to Latino immigrants, greater attention must be paid to neighborhood-level factors.
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spelling pubmed-51292652016-12-11 Drinking and Driving among Recent Latino Immigrants: The Impact of Neighborhoods and Social Support Sanchez, Mariana Romano, Eduardo Dawson, Christyl Huang, Hui Sneij, Alicia Cyrus, Elena Rojas, Patria Cano, Miguel Ángel Brook, Judith De La Rosa, Mario Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Latinos are disproportionately impacted by drinking and driving arrests and alcohol-related fatal crashes. Why, and how, these disparities occur remains unclear. The neighborhood environments that recent Latino immigrants encounter in their host communities can potentially influence health behaviors over time, including the propensity to engage in drinking and driving. This cross-sectional study utilizes a sample of 467 documented and undocumented adult recent Latino immigrants in the United States to answer the following research questions: (a) How do neighborhood-level factors, combined with social support, impact drinking and driving risk behaviors?; and (b) Does acculturative stress moderate the effects of those associations? Results indicate neighborhood-level factors (informal social control and social capital) have protective effects against drinking and driving risk behaviors via the mediating mechanism of social support. Acculturative stress moderated associations between neighborhood informal social control and social support, whereby the protective effects of informal social control on social support were not present for those immigrants with higher levels of acculturative stress. Our findings contribute to the limited knowledge of drinking and driving among Latino immigrants early in the immigration process and suggest that, in the process of developing prevention programs tailored to Latino immigrants, greater attention must be paid to neighborhood-level factors. MDPI 2016-10-28 2016-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5129265/ /pubmed/27801856 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13111055 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Brook, Judith
De La Rosa, Mario
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13111055
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