title: Impact of race and diagnostic label on older adults' emotions, illness beliefs, and willingness to help a family member with osteoarthritis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine how race and the diagnostic label of Osteoarthritis (OA) affects older adults' emotions, illness beliefs, and willingness to help a family member.
  
  
  METHODS
  African American and White older adults were randomly assigned to read vignettes describing a sister suffering from chronic pain and disability, either with or without the OA label. Race × diagnostic label ANOVAs were conducted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared to Whites, African Americans were more optimistic that OA could improve with health care, and showed greater willingness to help their sister. The OA label had little impact on emotions, beliefs, or willingness to help. African Americans rated the sister as having more control of their problem than Whites without the OA label, but providing the diagnosis eliminated this difference.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The diagnostic label of OA had little effect on these older adults, but racial differences indicate that cultural values regarding family caregiving are important in arthritis care.
authors.affiliation: Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA cmingo2@gsu.edu.
authors.forename: Chivon A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Mingo
authors.affiliation: University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: McIlvane
authors.affiliation: University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
authors.forename: William E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Haley
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: My-Linh N
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Luong
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003469:Culture; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011897:Random Allocation; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: family; older adults; osteoarthritis; perceptions of illness; race