Inclusion of Vietnamese Americans: Opportunities to understand dementia disparities by Oanh L. Meyer, Van Ta Park, Alka M. Kanaya, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Ladson Hinton, Quyen Q. Tiet, Quyen Vuong, Stephanie Nguyen, Danielle Harvey, Rachel A. Whitmer

“…Abstract There is a dearth of research on cognitive aging and dementia in Asian Americans, particularly Vietnamese Americans, who are the fourth largest Asian subgroup in the United States. …”
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Focus on The Distant Shores of Freedom: Vietnamese American Memoirs and Fiction by Renée Dickason

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Perceived Risk of Diabetes Among Vietnamese Americans With Prediabetes: Mixed Methods Study by Angelina Nguyen, Marylyn Morris McEwen, Lois J Loescher

“…Snowball sampling was used to recruit 10 Vietnamese Americans with prediabetes and achieve data saturation. …”
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Identifying Facilitators and Barriers to Increasing COVID-19 Vaccination and Trial Participation in Vaccinated Vietnamese Americans

“…Purpose: To identify facilitators and barriers to COVID-19 immunization and COVID-19 clinical trial participation in the vaccinated Vietnamese American population in Houston, TX. Methods: Community-based qualitative study using focus groups and key informant interviews. …”
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Factors Associated with Hepatitis B Medication Adherence and Persistence among Underserved Chinese and Vietnamese Americans by Aisha Bhimla, Lin Zhu, Wenyue Lu, Sarit Golub, Chibuzo Enemchukwu, Elizabeth Handorf, Yin Tan, Ming-Chin Yeh, Minhhuyen T. Nguyen, Min Qi Wang, Grace X. Ma

“…Results: Among 165 participants, 77.6% were Chinese and 22.4% were Vietnamese Americans. HBV-related knowledge/information, motivation, and self-efficacy were all positively associated with having medium/high medication adherence. …”
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Social support and community embeddedness protect against post-disaster depression among immigrants: a Vietnamese American case study by NhuNgoc K. Pham, Mai Do, Jannette Diep

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Assessing the impact of a health education outreach project on cervical cancer awareness among Vietnamese-American women in San Diego by Eduardo Fricovsky, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Binh Tran, Phuong Thao Nguyen, Tuyet Phan, Natalie Chang

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Exploring Intergenerational Communication on Social Media Group Chats as a Cancer Prevention Intervention Opportunity Among Vietnamese American Families: Qualitative Study by Huong Thien Duong, Suellen Hopfer

“…ConclusionsThe findings of this study inform the development of a social media intervention for increasing preventive cancer screening in Vietnamese American families.…”
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Digital Storytelling Intervention to Promote Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Among At-Risk Asian Immigrant Populations: Pilot Intervention Study by Angela Chia-Chen Chen, Sunny Wonsun Kim, Lihong Ou, Michael Todd, Linda Larkey

“…Despite disparities in HPV-associated cancers in Korean Americans and Vietnamese Americans, their vaccination rates remain low. …”
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Developing a Culturally and Linguistically Congruent Digital Storytelling Intervention in Vietnamese and Korean American Mothers of Human Papillomavirus–Vaccinated Children: Feasib... by Sunny Wonsun Kim, Angela Chia-Chen Chen, Lihong Ou, Linda Larkey, Michael Todd, Yooro Han

“…Further research is needed to test the efficacy and effectiveness of digital stories as an intervention for Vietnamese American and Korean American mothers of unvaccinated children. …”
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The objectifying gaze: a lacanian reading of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees by Nurfarah Hadira Abdul Hadi, Asl, Moussa Pourya

“…The white gaze has traditionally enjoyed the privilege to objectify and fix the diasporic subject both racially and ethnically, foregrounding a relationality that naturalizes the immigrant as the inferior subject. The Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen recounts similar unsettling experiences and sufferings of the Vietnamese (refugees) in his debut short story collection The Refugees (2017). …”
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Vietglish: translanguaging in Vietnamese and English by Nguyen, B-LL

“…<p>This dissertation investigates the translanguaging patterns of five Vietnamese-American individuals residing in the state of California, focusing on the attitudes, motivations, and insights of these participants on their use of Vietnamese as a heritage language. …”

Differences in Subjective Memory Impairment, Depressive Symptoms, Sleep, and Physical Activity in African American and Asian American Elderly by Minsun Lee, Jin-Hyeok Nam, Elizabeth Yi, Aisha Bhimla, Julie Nelson, Grace X. Ma

“…<b>Results</b>: Vietnamese Americans reported the highest SMI score. Depressive symptoms, sleeping hours, and PA levels were significantly associated with SMI. …”
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Leveraging genomic diversity for discovery in an electronic health record linked biobank: the UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative by Ruth Johnson, Yi Ding, Vidhya Venkateswaran, Arjun Bhattacharya, Kristin Boulier, Alec Chiu, Sergey Knyazev, Tommer Schwarz, Malika Freund, Lingyu Zhan, Kathryn S. Burch, Christa Caggiano, Brian Hill, Nadav Rakocz, Brunilda Balliu, Christopher T. Denny, Jae Hoon Sul, Noah Zaitlen, Valerie A. Arboleda, Eran Halperin, Sriram Sankararaman, Manish J. Butte, UCLA Precision Health Data Discovery Repository Working Group, UCLA Precision Health ATLAS Working Group, Clara Lajonchere, Daniel H. Geschwind, Bogdan Pasaniuc

“…Results We identify 5 continental-scale GIA clusters including European American (EA), African American (AA), Hispanic Latino American (HL), South Asian American (SAA) and East Asian American (EAA) individuals and 7 subcontinental GIA clusters within the EAA GIA corresponding to Chinese American, Vietnamese American, and Japanese American individuals. …”
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Editorial: Community Engagement Is Key to Promoting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Health

“…Using data from the Household Pulse Survey collected in 2021, Zhang et al found that Asian Americans have the highest rate of COVID-19 vaccination, but age, gender, and education gradients exist.23 The authors also cautioned on the vaccination hesitation among subgroups of Asian Americans.23 Nguyen et al conducted a community-based qualitative study using focus groups and key informant interviews among a Vietnamese American community in Houston, Texas and concluded that promoting science-based information through trusted messengers, improving awareness and access, and showcasing benefits to the community could increase the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among Vietnamese Americans.24 Samoa et al used data from the AA and NH/PI COVID-19 Needs Assessment Project and found that vaccine hesitancy ranged from 23% among NH/PIs to 57% among Tongans, with consistent associations between socioeconomic status and vaccine hesitancy among Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Multi-ethnic NH/PIs.25 The collection of articles has contributed to our understanding of the health disparities experienced by AAs and NH/PIs and pointed to the urgent need to address the disparities, as Ka'ai et al noted.14 First, anti-Asian hate crimes have surged after the emergence of COVID-19 and exacerbated the physical and mental suffering among AAs.14,21 The works highlighted by the Biden Administration in addressing anti-Asian bias, xenophobia, and harassment need to be applauded and sustained.26 Second, LEP among AAs has been a barrier to accessing prevention and health care services,18 including mental health and genetic testing.27?…”
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Improving Long-Term Adherence to Monitoring/Treatment in Underserved Asian Americans with Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB) through a Multicomponent Culturally Tailored Intervention: A Ran... by Grace X. Ma, Lin Zhu, Wenyue Lu, Elizabeth Handorf, Yin Tan, Ming-Chin Yeh, Cicely Johnson, Guercie Guerrier, Minhhuyen T. Nguyen

“…Results: The study sample consisted of 358 Chinese and Vietnamese Americans living with CHB, including 181 in the intervention group and 177 in the control group. …”
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