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Date:1/16/2008

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If focus group participants had said that music played a big role in their behaviors or drug use or gangs, then those topics would be in the model, Gilliam said.

Statistics from previous studies show that compared to African-American and white adolescents, the Latina population has higher rates of teen pregnancy despite lower rates of sexual activity, and they are less likely to use contraception the first time they have sex. There are these health disparities that very much track along racial, ethnic lines, Gilliam said.

Many times researchers presuppose the questions that should be asked and design questionnaires based on those suppositions, said Gilliam, whose work identifies populations most at risk for unintended pregnancy and ways to improve education. Theyre often not rooted in the belief systems of a population.

If were serious about doing research in understudied populations, especially with adolescents, we want to start moving away from cultural comparisons, she said. We want to start thinking about questions that are culturally appropriate for the group being studied.


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Contact: Theresa Carson
theresa.carson@uchospitals.edu
773-702-6241
University of Chicago Medical Center
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