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<\/a><\/p>\nDr. Brooke EE Montgomery, behavioral researcher in the Boozman College of Public Health Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, is part of a research team that will study the relationship between the racial income gap and racial disparities in chronic diseases of low-income Black men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Black men ages 45 and older will be the focus of the research. The study will include some participants who previously have been incarcerated. Each participant will be interviewed and surveyed three times during the 12-month study. Some of the men will be randomly selected to receive a financial stipend, which is downloaded onto a card, to use through the duration of the study. They will also have to complete a weekly financial log of how they use the stipend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll study the health habits, commonalities and differences between the people who get the money and the ones who don\u2019t,\u201d Montgomery said.<\/p>\n
The researchers will collaborate with long-standing community partners to carry out the project, which will be conducted exclusively in Pulaski County.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy focusing on Pulaski County, we can use both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods to thoroughly evaluate the importance of addressing the racial income gap and how it relates to health among men who are more likely to have a shared geographic and historical context. Our goal is to advance antiracist health research as well as to inform policies that promote health equity and dismantle structural racism and discrimination across multiple systems of oppression.\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cThrough this grant, we\u2019ll also learn how income effects secondary measures related to their mental and physical health and how the men function in society.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre they\u00a0going start engaging more in their communities? Will they be happier? How will the funding effect what they do with their children and families? Those are some examples of the questions we\u2019ll look to answer through this research grant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zaller noted that \u201chaving limited finances can force people to put their health on the backburner, especially individuals who are coming out of the criminal justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n
This grant is the first of its kind in Arkansas and the first NIH grant that will focus on rigorously testing ways to dismantle structural racism.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve received the opportunity to wed the Southern Public Health and Criminal Justice Research Center\u2019s mission with research as a means to learn how we can promote racial justice,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cI envision this as a tool for supporting numerous endeavors in the participants\u2019 life. We are here to help people. That\u2019s what this research, this grant is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n
The R01 grant and the forthcoming research project are a means to provide well-documented numerical solutions to issues that lead to other problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the grant, we\u2019re going to find out if just being financial stability is enough for people to prioritize their health,\u201d Zaller said.<\/p>\n
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