Minority Disability Research Trends Database

As part of this grant, we are cataloguing research findings written under its auspices. The full citations and links to further information on each appear below.


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Caregivers

  Citation
Details Arango, J.C., Nicholls, E., Villaseñor, T. & Drew, A. (2011). Health related quality of life in caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury from Guadalajara, Mexico. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, (In Press).
Details Flores, L., Arango, J.C., Deng, X., Aragon, C., Quijano, M., Wilder, K. & Kreutzer, J. (2011). Predictors of depression and burden in a group of caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury from Colombia, South America. Brain Injury. (In Press).
Details Arango, J.C. & , J.Kreutzer (2010). International perspectives in caregiving. NeuroRehabiltiation, 27, 1-3.
Details Arango, J.C., Quijano, M., Aponte, M., Cuervo, M., Nicholls, E., Rogers, H. & Kreutzer, J. (2010). Family needs in caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury from Colombia, South America. Brain Injury, 24, 1017-1026.
Details Arango, J.C., Lehan, T., Drew, A., Moreno, A., Deng, X. & Lemos, M. (2010). Health related quality of life in caregivers of individuals with dementia from Colombia, South America.. American Journal of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias, 7, 556-561.
Details Hart, T., O'Neil-Pirozzi, T., Williams, K., Rapport, L., Hammond, F. & Kreutzer, J.S. (2007). Racial differences in caregiving patterns, caregiver emotional function, and sources of emotional support following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22(2), 122-131.

 

Employment Outcomes

  Citation
Details Arango, J.C., Ketchum, J., Lewis, A., Krch, D., Gary, K.W. & Dodd Jr., B. (2011). A longitudinal investigation of employment outcomes in individuals with traumatic brain injury one through five years post-injury. PM&R: Journal of Injury, Function, and Rehabilitation. (In Press).
Details Arango, J.C., Ketchum, J., Francis, K., Lewis, A., Premuda, P., Wehman, P. & Kreutzer, J. (2010). A longitudinal study of effect of race/ethnicity on employment outcomes at 1, 5, and 10 years post spinal cord injury. PM&R: Journal of Injury, Function, and Rehabilitation, 2, 901-910.
Details Gary, K.W., Ketchum, J.M., Arango-Lasprilla, J.C., Kreutzer, J.S., Novack, T., Copolillo, A. & Deng, X. (2010). Differences in employment outcomes 10 years after traumatic brain injury among racial and ethnic minority groups. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 33, 65-75.
Details Hurley, J.E., Lewis, A.N., Koch, L.C., Armstrong, A.J., Gary, K.W. & McMahon, B.T. (2010). An examination of the relationship between race of ADA Title 1 claimants and attributes of their employers. Journal of Minority Disability Research and Practice, 1, 119-147.
Details Jordan, D.U. & Verdugo, M.A. (2010). Evaluation and follow up of supported employment initiatives in Spain from 1995 to 2008. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 30, 39-49.
Details Lewis, A. & Arango, J.C. (2010). The multicultural challenges of employment of people with disabilities. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 22, 1-2.
Details Velcoff, J., Hernandez, B. & Keys, C. (2010). Employment and vocational rehabilitation experiences of Latinos with disabilities with differing patterns of acculturation. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 30, 51-64.
Details Arango-Lasprilla, J. C., Ketchum, J. M., Williams, K., Kreutzer, J. S., Marquez de la Plata, C. D., O'Neil-Pirozzi, T. M. & Wehman, P. (2008). Racial differences in employment outcomes after traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 89(5), 988-995.
Details Arango-Lasprilla, J. C., Kreutzer, J., Wehman, P., Williams, K., Marquez de la Plata, C., O’Neil-Pirozzi, T. & Jha, A. (2007). Poster 34: Racial and sex differences in employment outcomes after traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 88(10), e15.
Details Wehman, P., Targett, P., Yasuda, S., McManus, S. & Briel, L. (2007). Helping persons with traumatic brain injury of minority origin: Improve career and employment outcomes.. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22(2), 95-104.
Details Meade, M. A., Lewis, A., Jackson, N. & Hess, D. W. (2004). Race, employment, and spinal cord injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 85(11), 1782-1792.

 

Functional Outcomes

  Citation
Details Arango, J.C., Quijano, M., Cuervo, T., Rincon, A. & Aponte, M. (2011). The usefulness of the self-generation technique to improve learning and memory in Spanish-speaking individuals with traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury. (In Press).
Details Gary, K., Nicholls, E., Shamburger, A., Flores, L. & Arango, J.C. (2011). Differences in outcomes after SCI among racial and ethnic minorities: A critical literature review. NeuroRehabiltiation. (In Press).
Details Quijano, M., Arango, J.C. & Cuervo, T. (2011). Cognitive and neurobehavioral problems in individuals with traumatic brain injury from Cali, Colombia. Revista Colombianade Psiquiatria, 39, 716-731.
Details Arango, J.C. & Kreutzer, J. (2010). Racial and ethnic disparities in functional, psychosocial, and neurobehavioral outcomes after brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 25, 128-136.
Details Arango, J.C., Nicholls, E., Olivera, S., Perdomo, J. & Arango, J. (2010). Health related quality of life in individuals with spinal cord injury from Colombia, South America. NeuroRehabiltiation, 27, 1-7.
Details Arango-Lasprilla, J. C., Rosenthal, M., DeLuca, J., Cifu, D. X., Hanks, R. & Komaroff, E. (2007). Functional outcomes from inpatient rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury: How do Hispanics fare?. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 88(1), 11-18.
Details Arango-Lasprilla, J. C., Rosenthal, M., DeLuca, J., Komaroff, E., Sherer, M. & Cifu, D. X. (2007). Traumatic brain injury and functional outcomes: Does minority status matter?. Brain Injury, 21(7), 701-708.
Details Meade, M. A., Cifu, D. X., Seel, R. T., McKinley, W. O. & Kreutzer,, J. S. (2004). Medical procedures, complications and outcomes for patients with SCI: A multicenter investigation comparing African-Amerians and Caucasians. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 85(3), 368-375.

 

Increasing Cultural Awareness

  Citation
Details Lewis, A.N. (2011). The anatomy of cultural bias and strategies to overcome it. Journal of Minority Disability Research and Practice. (In Press).
Details Getachew, A.M. (2010). Ethiopian Americans: What counseling professionals need to know. Journal of Minority Disability Research and Practice, 1, 93-118.
Details Lewis, A.N. (2010). Addressing culture and disability: Building capacity, knowledge, and solutions through the next generation of minority disability researchers…the time is now!. Journal of Minority Disability Research and Practice, 1, 3-6.
Details Lewis, A.N., Hurley, J.E., Armstrong, A.J., Koch, L.C., Gary, K.W. & McMahon, B.T. (2010). The influence of race on allegations of discrimination due to disability. Journal of Minority Disability Research and Practice, 1, 30-67.
Details Balcazar, F. E., Suarez-Balcazar, Y. & Taylor-Ritzler, T. (2009). Cultural competence: Development of a conceptual framework. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1153 - 1160.
Details Bickenbach, J. E. (2009). Disability, culture and the UN convention. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1111 - 1124.
Details Dressler, D. & Pils, P. (2009). A qualitative study on cross-cultural communication in post-accident in-patient rehabilitation of migrant and ethnic minority patients in Austria. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1181 - 1190.
Details Iwama, M. K., Thomson, N. A. & Macdonald, R. M. (2009). The Kawa model: The power of culturally responsive occupational therapy. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1125 - 1135.
Details Matheson, D. (2009). A right to health: Medicine as Western cultural imperialism?. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1191 - 1204.
Details Meade, M.A., Jackson, M.N., Barrett, K. & Ellenbogen, P. (2009). Perspectives on networking, cultural values, and skills among African American men with Spinal Cord Injury: A reconsideration of social capital theory. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 25, 21-33.
Details Panzarella, K. J. (2009). Beginning with the end in mind: Evaluating outcomes of cultural competence instruction in a doctor of physical therapy programme. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1144 - 1152.
Details Wiley, A. (2009). At a cultural crossroads: Lessons on culture and policy from the New Zealand DISABILITY STRATEGY. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1205 - 1214.
Details Niemeier, J. & Arango, J. C. (2007). Towards improved provider practice competency in rehabilitation services for ethnically diverse survivor's of traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22(2), 75-84.
Details Stone, J. (2005). Providing culturally competent services (multicultural aspects of counseling and psychotherapy). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Details Niemeier, J., Burnett, D. & Whitaker, D. (2003). Cultural competence in the multidisciplinary rehabilitation setting: are we falling short of meeting needs?. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabiliatation, 84(8), 1240-1245.
Details Burnett, D. M., Kolakowsky-Hayner, S. A., White, J. M. & Cifu, D. X. (2002). Impact of minority status following traumatic spinal cord injury. NeuroRehabilitation, 17(3), 187-194.

 

Rehabilitation & Care

  Citation
Details Vaughan, M. & Boston, O. (2011). Predicting employment outcomes among women of color with psychiatric disabilities. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 30, 27-37.
Details Datti, P.A. & Conyers, L.M. (2010). Application of the behavioral model of service utilization to predicting factors associated with vocational rehabilitation use among a sample of Latino men with HIV/AIDS in New York State. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 33, 15-25.
Details Lewis, P.H. (2010). A theory of planned behavior: Assessing readiness to change and self-efficacy in service delivery among behavioral health care professionals. Journal of Minority Disability Research and Practice, 1, 68-92.
Details Lewis, P.H. & Lewis, A.N. (2010). Profile of cultural awareness and sensitivity in behavioral health care providers in a state behavioral health care organization. Journal of Minority Disability Research and Practice, 1, 3-33.
Details Pitt, J.S., Romero-Ramirez, M., Lewis, P.H. & Boston, O. (2010). Triple threat of disability, race, and poverty: Considerations for rehabilitation practice and research. Journal of Minority Disability Research and Practice, 1, 7-29.
Details Taylor-Ritzler, T., Balzacar, F.E., Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Kilbury, R., Alvarado, F. & James, M. (2010). Engaging ethnically diverse individuals with disabilities in the vocational rehabilitation system: Themes of empowerment and oppression. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 33, 3-14.
Details Alston, R.J. & Rucker, R.R. (2009). Minority clients in rehabilitation: Reactions to race by rehabilitation counselors. Rehabilitation Counselors and Educators Journal, 22, 73-74.
Details Balcazar, F., Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Taylor-Ritzler, T. & Keys, C. (2009). Race, culture and disability: Rehabilitation science and practice. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
Details Lewis, A. (2009). Disability disparities: A beginning model. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1136 - 1143.
Details Lewis, A., Bethea, J. & Hurley, J. (2009). Integrating cultural competency in rehabilitation curricula in the new millennium: Keeping it simple. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1161 - 1169.
Details Lewis, A. N. & Shamburger, A. (2009). In Balcazar, F. & Suarez-Balcazar, Y. Taylor-Ritzler, T. Keys, C. Race, culture and disability: Rehabilitation science and practice (pp. 229-253). Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
Details Arango, J. C. & Niemeier, J. (2007). Cultural issues in the rehabilitation of TBI survivors: Recent research and new frontiers. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22(2), 73-74.
Details Beach, M. C., Hill-Briggs, F. & Cooper, L. (2006). Racial and ethnic differences in receipt and use of health information in encounters between patients and physicians. Medical Care, 44(2), 97 - 99.

 

Socioeconomic Restraints

  Citation
Details Davis, K.E., Lewis, A.N., Zhang, N. & Thompkins, A. (2010). In (pp. ). , : .
Details Parnes, P., Cameron, D., Christie, N., Cockburn, L., Goli Hashemi, A.E. & Yoshida, K. (2009). Disability in low-income countries: Issues and implications. Disbaility & Rehabilitation, 31(14), 1170 - 1180.

 

Other

  Citation
Details Amitabh, J., Williams, K., Hammond, F., Ketchum, J., Arango, J.C., Sander, A., Bushnick, T. & Balcazar, F. (2011). Confounders and effect modifiers of minority retention in the national traumatic brain injury model system database. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. (In Press).
Details Lewis, Allen (2009). Empowering minority group research. International Innovation Journal Article, , 63-65.
Details Lewis, A. N., Head, C., Shamburger, A., Armstrong, A. J. & West, S. L. (2007). Impact of Section 21 of 1992 Rehabilitation Act Amendments on diversity articles in rehabilitation journals. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 26, 89-96.