M A Bruce
Biographic Data
| ID | 9570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M A Bruce |
| GIVEN NAMES | M A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruce |
| SIGNATURE | BRUCE M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0643-1640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Race, Age, and Allostatic Load Among Men in the Nashville Stress and Health Study
High allostatic load (AL), a measure of physiological dysregulation, has been linked with premature morbidity and mortality. There is a paucity of research assessing AL among non-Hispanic Black (NHB) and non-Hispanic White (NHW) American men of various age groups. This study investigated racial differences in AL among NHB and NHW adult men and assessed whether racial differences in AL varied by age. Data were drawn from NHB ( n = 232) and NHW ( n…
Stroke Incidence and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Among African Americans
An increased and independent risk of nonfatal stroke appears at the highest quintile of hs-CRP values (≥0.0676 mg/L) among JHS participants
Religiosity, Religious Beliefs, and Cognitive Impairment Among Black and White Men With Modest Incomes
Objective The objective of this study was to examine the association between religious practices, beliefs, and cognitive impairment among Black and White men with modest incomes in the 2016 Health and Retirement Study. Methods Data were drawn from Black and White men who reported annual incomes at or below $50,000 ( n = 926). The primary outcome was any cognitive impairment, a dichotomous variable derived from a modified version of the Telephone …
Adherence to the healthy eating index-2010 and alternative healthy eating index-2010 in relation to metabolic syndrome among African Americans in the Jackson heart study
Objective: The primary objective of this study was to determine whether Healthy Eating Index (HEI) and Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) scores were associated with incident metabolic syndrome. Design: This study is a secondary analysis of data from the Jackson Heart Study. HEI and AHEI scores were divided into quintiles and Cox proportional hazards regression models were analysed for 1864 African American adults free from metabolic syndrom…
Caregiving and Obesity among Black American Adults
Black American adults often report higher rates of obesity and caregiving compared with other racial or ethnic groups. Consequently, many Black American caregivers and care recipients are obese or have obesity-related chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes, hypertension). This study investigated associations between caregiving and obesity among Black Americans, including the role of health behaviors and chronic conditions. The sample included data fr…
The Association between Adult Sport, Fitness, and Recreational Physical Activity and Number and Age of Children Present in the Household
Only one in three adults in the United States meets the weekly recommendation for physical activity (PA). The presence of children in the home may restrict adult PA. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between adult moderate and vigorous sport, fitness, and recreational physical activities and the number and age (0-5 and 6-17) of children in their household. Secondary data were drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Exa…
Food Insecurity Is Associated with Mental–Physical Comorbidities among U.S. Adults
The co-occurrence of mental and physical conditions has increased significantly during the last decade. However, research examining the influence of social factors such as food insecurity is limited. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between food insecurity and mental-physical comorbidity status among U.S. adults. Data for this analysis were drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for the ye…
Racial differences in Financial Hardship and depressive symptoms among older adults
Poverty, Racism, and the Public Health Crisis in America
The purpose of this article is to discuss poverty as a multidimensional factor influencing health. We will also explicate how racism contributes to and perpetuates the economic and financial inequality that diminishes prospects for population health improvement among marginalized racial and ethnic groups. Poverty is one of the most significant challenges for our society in this millennium. Over 40% of the world lives in poverty. The U.S. has one …
Church Attendance and Mobility Limitation Among Black and White Men With Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is a significant impediment that can reduce physical functional status. Mobility is fundamental for quality of life and church attendance to be associated with improved physical functioning. Few studies have examined how religious participation have implications for mobility limitation among men in general and among prostate cancer survivors in particular. The purpose of this study was to assess the association between church atte…
Religious Service Attendance and Mortality among Adults in the United States with Chronic Kidney Disease
Religion and related institutions have resources to help individuals cope with chronic conditions, such as chronic kidney disease (CKD). The purpose of this investigation is to examine the association between religious service attendance and mortality for adults with CKD. Data were drawn from NHANES III linked to the 2015 public use Mortality File to analyze a sample of adults ( n = 3558) who had CKD as defined by a single value of estimated glom…
Weight Misperception among African American Adolescents
The sex-specific patterns in this study highlight heterogeneity among African American adolescents and an urgent need to consider sex and gender when developing targeted interventions for youth who are at high risk for weight misperceptions and unhealthy weight control practices
Social and Behavioral Factors Associated with BMI and Waist Circumference among Adolescents
Knowledge is limited about how sex or gender interact with social and behavioral factors to influence African Americans' health and additional studies are needed to specify how these factors interact to accelerate weight gain and adipose tissue accumulation over the life course
Religiosity and Excess Weight Among African-American Adolescents
Conversation Cafés and Conceptual Framework Formation for Research Training and Mentoring of Underrepresented Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The development of research training opportunities for investigators from the untapped pool of traditionally underrepresented racial/ethnic groups has gained intense interest at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The significant and persistent disparity in the likelihood of R01 funding between African American and Whites was highlighted in the groundbreaking 2011 report, Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards . Disparities in funding succ…
Writing Accountability Groups Are a Tool for Academic Success
By providing a structured approach to developing and/or enhancing a practice of consistent writing, time management skills, and collaborative relationships, the WAG has promise for enhancing scientific writing skills for many trainees and early-career faculty. Longer term follow-up is needed to more fully assess the potential impact of WAGs
Can Precision Medicine Actually Help People Like Me? African American and Hispanic Perspectives on the Benefits and Barriers of Precision Medicine
While these groups believed precision medicine might yield benefits for health outcomes, they are also skeptical about whether African Americans and Hispanics would actually benefit from precision medicine given current structural limitations and disparities in health care access and quality
Leveraging Community Engagement
Racism Across the Life Course
Food Security Status and Overweight/Obesity Among 2- to 5-Year-Old Boys and Girls in a Community-Based Clinic
The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between food security, parental health behaviors, and overweight/obesity among 2- to 5-year-old children in West Tennessee (N = 264). Results from logistic regression models indicate that the association between parental characteristics and child weight status varies by child sex and household food security. These findings highlight the need for more nuanced analysis that can produce results …
Correlates Associated With Willingness to Start Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in Jackson, Mississippi
Black men who have sex with men have the greatest risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a highly effective prevention method. However, uptake in this group is extremely low. Data from a sample of 225 human immunodeficiency virus-negative young black men who have sex with men residing in Jackson, Mississippi, were analyzed to examine correlates associated with willingness to start PrEP. Consistent cond…
Associations Among Caregiver Feeding Practices and Blood Pressure in African American Adolescents
Caregiver feeding practices have been linked to youth health outcomes. The present study examined associations among caregiver feeding practices and blood pressure in 212 African American adolescents via the Child Feeding Practices Questionnaire. Results revealed a positive association between caregivers' concern about their child's weight and diastolic blood pressure, which was more acute for older adolescent boys. Caregivers' perceived responsi…
Contemplative Practices
Health has many dimensions, and intolerance and lack of compassion may contribute to the poor health and disparities in our nation. Tolerance can convey an inherent paradox or dissonance that can be associated with stress. Compassionate consideration of others can be combined with acceptance to create harmony within and across individuals. In this article, we explore how contemplative practices can cultivate tolerance and compassion and contribut…
Theory-Informed Research Training and Mentoring of Underrepresented Early-Career Faculty at Teaching-Intensive Institutions
Mentoring has been consistently identified as an important element for career advancement in many biomedical and health professional disciplines and has been found to be critical for success and promotion in academic settings. Early-career faculty from groups underrepresented in biomedical research, however, are less likely to have mentors, and in general, receive less mentoring than their majority-group peers, particularly among those employed i…
Examining the Impact of Structural Racism on Food Insecurity
Food insecurity is defined as "a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food." While, levels of food insecurity in the United States have fluctuated over the past 20 years; disparities in food insecurity rates between people of color and whites have continued to persist. There is growing recognition that discrimination and structural racism are key contributors to disparities in health behaviors a…
Perceived Discrimination and Hypertension Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
Further understanding the role of perceived discrimination in the etiology of hypertension may be beneficial in eliminating hypertension disparities
Perceived discrimination is associated with health behaviours among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
Higher levels of perceived discrimination were associated with select health behaviours among men and women. Health behaviours offer a potential mechanism through which perceived discrimination affects health in AA
Structure, Context, and Agency in the Reproduction of Black-on-Black Violence
Violence has a substantial impact on morbidity and mortality within the African-American community. While certainly providing insight into macro- and micro-level forces, existing conceptualizations of the race and violence linkage are limited. We discuss these limitations and then offer a more comprehensive and integrated theoretical framework for understanding disparate patterns. Rather than reducing race-specific violence outcomes to social-psy…
If you do nothing about stress, the next thing you know, you're shattered
It's My World? Exploring Black and White Perceptions of Personal Control
A positive sense of control over one's life is essential for maintaining health and well-being. Those with a strong sense of control believe changes in their social world are responsive to their choices, actions, and efforts. In contrast, a sense of powerlessness or fatalism is on the other end of the continuum. There is little research that explores how race and gender relate to feelings about personal control. To examine their effects on percep…
Negotiating Boundaries and Bonds
This study addressed intergroup differences in how often U.S. families socialized young children to their ethnic/racial heritage using nationally representative survey data gathered as part of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K).The sample ( N = 18,827) included young White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, American Indian, and multiracial children. Among other things, the auth…
Health is the Ability to Manage Yourself Without Help”
These findings highlight key elements of how older African American men conceptualize health in ways that are interrelated with yet expand notions of successful aging in ways that are critical for health promotion research and interventions
The Use of Incarceration in the United States
Racial and gender disparities in sugar consumption change efficacy among first-year college students
Leveraging Community Engagement
Inequality and delinquency
Knowledge and Perceptions about Clinical Trial Participation among African American and Caucasian College Students
Racial inequality and social control
Research dealing with disproportionate criminality, arrest, and incarceration among African Americans has tended to emphasize cultural, familial, and structural differences between racial groups while at the same time neglecting patterns and processes of race‐ and class‐based antagonism and subordination that are central, especially in the case of the U.S. South historically. We attempt to address this limitation by posing a model of the contempo…
Racial differences in Financial Hardship and depressive symptoms among older adults
Racial inequality and social control
Research dealing with disproportionate criminality, arrest, and incarceration among African Americans has tended to emphasize cultural, familial, and structural differences between racial groups while at the same time neglecting patterns and processes of race‐ and class‐based antagonism and subordination that are central, especially in the case of the U.S. South historically. We attempt to address this limitation by posing a model of the contempo…
Structure, Context, and Agency in the Reproduction of Black-on-Black Violence
Violence has a substantial impact on morbidity and mortality within the African-American community. While certainly providing insight into macro- and micro-level forces, existing conceptualizations of the race and violence linkage are limited. We discuss these limitations and then offer a more comprehensive and integrated theoretical framework for understanding disparate patterns. Rather than reducing race-specific violence outcomes to social-psy…
Race in the Hood
Crime as Structured Action
Race and Gender Relations in Rituals of Blood
Rituals of Blood is the second volume of a trilogy about race relations in the United States (see also Patterson 1997). Unlike other authors on this topic, Orlando Patterson uses a multitemporal and multimethod approach to illustrate how relations between European and African Americans have consequences for some of the persistent problems plaguing African-American individuals, families, and communities. Through this effort, Rituals of Blood provi…
Inequality and delinquency
Nine Lives
Introduction * Structured Action Theory * A Theorized Life History Sam, John, and Zack * Sam * John * Zach * Conclusion Hugh, Perry, and Lenny * Hugh * Perry * Lenny * Conclusion From Predisposition to Violent Event * Family, School and Violent Predispositions * Schooling, the Bodyand Motivation for Violence * Violent Events * Conclusion Jerry, Dennis, and Alan * Jerry * Dennis * Alan * Conclusion Nonviolence and Social Change * Violent Versus No…
The Use of Incarceration in the United States
Violent Crime
Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. They have also observed that the risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of violent crime varies considerably from one individual to another. In societies with ethnically and racially diverse populations, some ethnic and racial groups have been reported to have higher rates of violent offending and victimization than other groups. This exceptiona…
Contextual Complexity and Violent Delinquency among Black and White Males
Most social scientists agree that Whites and African Americans exist in different economic, political, and social environments and assert that these “contextual” differences contribute substantially to group differencesin violence and other antisocial outcomes. This article extends these ideas into the empirical realm by using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and structural equation modeling to compare a model of vio…
It's My World? Exploring Black and White Perceptions of Personal Control
A positive sense of control over one's life is essential for maintaining health and well-being. Those with a strong sense of control believe changes in their social world are responsive to their choices, actions, and efforts. In contrast, a sense of powerlessness or fatalism is on the other end of the continuum. There is little research that explores how race and gender relate to feelings about personal control. To examine their effects on percep…
Negotiating Boundaries and Bonds
This study addressed intergroup differences in how often U.S. families socialized young children to their ethnic/racial heritage using nationally representative survey data gathered as part of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K).The sample ( N = 18,827) included young White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, American Indian, and multiracial children. Among other things, the auth…
Health Promotion for the Elderly
The black elderly are disproportionately impacted by the health care crisis in the United States. Historically, the black church and black clergy—long considered the vanguards of the black community—have played important roles in addressing the health problems of the black elderly. Innovative models are needed to provide solutions for elderly health issues and to create a sustainable infrastructure for long-term health promotion. Entrepreneurial …
Perceived Discrimination and Hypertension Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
Further understanding the role of perceived discrimination in the etiology of hypertension may be beneficial in eliminating hypertension disparities
Faith-Based Initiatives to Promote Health
Bruce, Marino A. PhD, MSRC, MDiv, CRC; Issue Editors; Whitt-Glover, Melicia C. PhD, FACSM; Issue Editors Author Information
Knowledge and Perceptions about Clinical Trial Participation among African American and Caucasian College Students
Weight Status and Blood Pressure among Adolescent African American Males
Additional studies are needed to specify the manner through which excess weight and weight gain can accelerate the development and progression of CVD-related diseases among African American males over the life course, thereby providing evidenced-based information for tailored interventions that can reduce risks for premature morbidity, disability, and mortality among this group
The Interdependence of African American Men's Definitions of Manhood and Health
In this article, we explore themes that cut across how 24- to 77-year-old African American men define manhood and health. Utilizing a thematic approach, we analyzed data from 9 focus groups (N = 73). We found that manhood and health were relational constructs that are interrelated in men's minds and experiences. Manhood and health were defined by the characteristics men embody, the behaviors men engage in, and the goals and values men had to posi…
Race, Social and Environmental Conditions, and Health Behaviors in Men
Although understanding race differences in health behaviors among men is an important step in reducing disparities in leading causes of death in the United States, progress has been stifled when using national data because of the confounding of race, socioeconomic status, and residential segregation. The purpose of this study is to examine the nature of disparities in health behaviors among African American and white men in the Exploring Health D…
Social Determinants of Men's Health Disparities
Bruce, Marino A. PhD, MSRC, CRC; Issue Editor; Griffith, Derek M. PhD; Issue Editor; Thorpe, Roland J. Jr PhD; Issue Editor Author Information
Perceived discrimination is associated with health behaviours among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
Higher levels of perceived discrimination were associated with select health behaviours among men and women. Health behaviours offer a potential mechanism through which perceived discrimination affects health in AA
If you do nothing about stress, the next thing you know, you're shattered
Hospital Utilization and Costs Among Preterm Infants by Payer
Spirituality, Religiosity, and Weight Management Among African American Adolescent Males
Spirituality and religion have been identified as important determinants of health for adults; however, the impact of faith-oriented factors on health behaviors and outcomes among African American adolescent males has not been well studied. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between religiosity and spirituality and obesity-related behaviors among 12-19 year old African American males (N = 105) in the Jackson Heart KIDS Pilot…
Health is the Ability to Manage Yourself Without Help”
These findings highlight key elements of how older African American men conceptualize health in ways that are interrelated with yet expand notions of successful aging in ways that are critical for health promotion research and interventions
Medicine (40 works) · Psychology (36 works) · Sociology (34 works) · Gerontology (28 works) · Political science (22 works) · Demography (19 works) · Demography (17 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Environmental health (14 works)