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Hair Maintenance and Chemical Hair Product Usage as Barriers to Physical Activity in Childhood and Adulthood among African American Women

Qualitative studies have identified haircare practices as important culturally specific barriers to physical activity (PA) among Black/African American (AA) women, but quantitative investigations are lacking. Using the Study of Environment, Lifestyle and Fibroids data among 1558 Black/AA women, we i...

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Autores principales: Gaston, Symielle A., James-Todd, Tamarra, Riley, Nyree M., Gladney, Micaela N., Harmon, Quaker E., Baird, Donna D., Jackson, Chandra L.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7762987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33322020
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249254
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author Gaston, Symielle A.
James-Todd, Tamarra
Riley, Nyree M.
Gladney, Micaela N.
Harmon, Quaker E.
Baird, Donna D.
Jackson, Chandra L.
author_facet Gaston, Symielle A.
James-Todd, Tamarra
Riley, Nyree M.
Gladney, Micaela N.
Harmon, Quaker E.
Baird, Donna D.
Jackson, Chandra L.
author_sort Gaston, Symielle A.
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description Qualitative studies have identified haircare practices as important culturally specific barriers to physical activity (PA) among Black/African American (AA) women, but quantitative investigations are lacking. Using the Study of Environment, Lifestyle and Fibroids data among 1558 Black/AA women, we investigated associations between hair product usage/hair maintenance behaviors and PA during childhood and adulthood. Participants reported childhood and current chemical relaxer and leave-in conditioner use. Self-reported PA included childhood recreational sports participation, leisure-time PA engagement during adulthood, and, at each life stage, minutes of and intensity of PA. Adjusting for socioeconomic and health characteristics, we used Poisson regression with robust variance to estimate prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for each PA measure for more vs. less frequent hair product use/hair maintenance. Thirty-four percent reported ≥twice/year chemical relaxer use and 22% reported ≥once/week leave-in conditioner use at age 10 years, and neither were associated with PA at age 10 years. In adulthood, ≥twice/year chemical relaxer users (30%) were less likely (PR = 0.90 [95% CI: 0.79–1.02]) and ≥once/week leave-in conditioner users (24%) were more likely (PR = 1.09 [95% CI: 0.99–1.20]) to report intense PA compared to counterparts reporting rarely/never use. Hair product use/maintenance may influence PA among Black/AA women and impact cardiometabolic health disparities.
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spelling pubmed-77629872020-12-27 Hair Maintenance and Chemical Hair Product Usage as Barriers to Physical Activity in Childhood and Adulthood among African American Women Gaston, Symielle A. James-Todd, Tamarra Riley, Nyree M. Gladney, Micaela N. Harmon, Quaker E. Baird, Donna D. Jackson, Chandra L. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Qualitative studies have identified haircare practices as important culturally specific barriers to physical activity (PA) among Black/African American (AA) women, but quantitative investigations are lacking. Using the Study of Environment, Lifestyle and Fibroids data among 1558 Black/AA women, we investigated associations between hair product usage/hair maintenance behaviors and PA during childhood and adulthood. Participants reported childhood and current chemical relaxer and leave-in conditioner use. Self-reported PA included childhood recreational sports participation, leisure-time PA engagement during adulthood, and, at each life stage, minutes of and intensity of PA. Adjusting for socioeconomic and health characteristics, we used Poisson regression with robust variance to estimate prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for each PA measure for more vs. less frequent hair product use/hair maintenance. Thirty-four percent reported ≥twice/year chemical relaxer use and 22% reported ≥once/week leave-in conditioner use at age 10 years, and neither were associated with PA at age 10 years. In adulthood, ≥twice/year chemical relaxer users (30%) were less likely (PR = 0.90 [95% CI: 0.79–1.02]) and ≥once/week leave-in conditioner users (24%) were more likely (PR = 1.09 [95% CI: 0.99–1.20]) to report intense PA compared to counterparts reporting rarely/never use. Hair product use/maintenance may influence PA among Black/AA women and impact cardiometabolic health disparities. MDPI 2020-12-10 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7762987/ /pubmed/33322020 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249254 Text en © 2020 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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Baird, Donna D.
Jackson, Chandra L.
Hair Maintenance and Chemical Hair Product Usage as Barriers to Physical Activity in Childhood and Adulthood among African American Women
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title_short Hair Maintenance and Chemical Hair Product Usage as Barriers to Physical Activity in Childhood and Adulthood among African American Women
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7762987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33322020
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249254
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