Research on anti-Muslim discrimination and health stalls for lack of data and measurement tools

Evidence

Despite years of growing animosity toward Muslims, our understanding of the health implications of anti-Muslim discrimination is limited (Samari, 2016). There is a dearth of research on this topic given the significant challenges in undertaking research on anti-Muslim discrimination and health, most notably the lack of health data on Muslims and absence of a scale for measuring the spectrum anti-Muslim discrimination in the U.S. — Naheed Ahmed, Measurement of Perceived Interpersonal…, 13

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing whether this measurement gap has since been closed by other instruments, and which ones cite this scale.
• SEED: Article angle: how the absence of a measurement instrument itself suppresses a public-health literature — a meta-story about what goes unstudied.