Study designs, measures and indexes used in studying the structural racism as a social determinant of health in high income countries from 2000–2022: evidence from a scoping review

Ahmed, Md Koushik; Scretching, Desiree; Lane, Sandra D.

doi:10.1186/s12939-022-01796-0

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 4 Full list of Indexes reported in the studies

From: Study designs, measures and indexes used in studying the structural racism as a social determinant of health in high income countries from 2000–2022: evidence from a scoping review

Measurement Scale/Indexes	References
1. Affective Racial Attitude Scale	[44]
2. Akaika Information Criteria (AICc)	[48]
3. Anger and Hopelessness Scale	[43]
4. Beck Depression Inventory Scale	[70]
5. Census Track based Reddling Index	[42]
6. Census Track Neighborhood Crosswalk	[72]
7. Census track Socioeconomic Disadvantage Index	[42]
8. Cognitive Function Score Index	[52]
9. Community Belonging Scale	[70]
10. Community Violence Scale	[70]
11. Concentration of Extremes Index	[29, 51, 63]
12. Contemporary Racism Awareness Scale	[44]
13. County Structural Racism Index	[50]
14. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status	[42]
15. Dichotomized Scale	[31]
16. Dissimilarity Index	[23, 31, 41]
17. Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale	[69]
18. Ethnic Attitude Scale	[44]
19. Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS)	[1, 18, 43, 52],
20. Everyday Unfair Treatment Scale	[43]
21. Experiences of Discrimination (EOD) Scale	[1, 18, 43, 50, 70]
22. Feelings of Warmth Scale	[44]
23. Felony Incarcerations	[42]
24. Five Segregation Scale	[46, 79]
25. Framingham risk score (FRS)	[75]
26. Frequency of Discrimination Experience Index	[54]
27. Gendered Racial Microaggression Scale	[71]
28. Generic Survey Index	[42]
29. Geographical Location Index	[13]
30. Global Moran Index (I)	[48]
31. Hardship Index	[67]
32. Implicit Association Test-IA	[44]
33. Index of macro-level factors	[66]
34. Index of Race Related Stress (IRRS)	[23, 56, 67, 78]
35. Index of race related stress-brief and five factor wellness Inventory	[42]
36. Institutional Racism subscale of the Index of Race-Related Stress-Brief Version (IRRS-B)	[42]
37. Isolation Index	[23, 30, 69]
38. Knowledge and Attitude towards Immigrants Scale	[44]
39. Legal Coding Scheme Index	[5]
40. Likert Scale	[32]
41. Local Moran's Index (LISA)	[48]
42. Major Life Discrimination [MLD] Scale	[68]
43. Measurement Instrument	[56]
44. Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Awareness Scale	[44]
45. Multidimensional inventory of black identity (MIBI): public regard subscale	[1]
46. Nadanolitization scale	[1]
47. Negative Social Interaction Scale	[43]
48. Neighborhood Satisfaction Scale	[43]
49. New Racism Scale	[44]
50. Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire (PEDQ)	[1]
51. Perceived Lifetime Discrimination Scale	[69]
52. Perceived Racism Scale (PRS)	[1, 78]
53. Residential Redlining Index	[42]
54. Racial Discrimination Scale	[42]
55. Racial Preference Scale	[44]
56. Racism and Life Experience Scale—Brief Version (RaLES-B)	[82]
57. Racism and life experience scales (RaLES)	[1]
58. Racism Reaction Scale (RRS)	[82]
59. Redlining Index of Mortgage Discrimination	[42]
60. Relative Proportion Index	[42]
61. Scale on Beliefs about Race Related Policies	[44]
62. Scale on Race-based Meritocracy	[44]
63. Scale on Self-Perception on Racism among Providers	[44]
64. Schedule of Racist Life Events (SRE) and Perceptions on Racism Scale (PoRS)	[1, 82]
65. Segregation index	[65]
66. Self- Reported Scale	[42]
67. Semantic Differential Situational Attitude Scale	[44]
68. Social Distance Scale	[44]
69. Survey Instrument	[51]
70. Vignettes	[44]
71. Visible Ethnic Identity Attitude Scale	[44]
72. White Racial Identity Attitude Scale	[44]
73. Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP)	[44]

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