Screening and early detection among racial and ethnic minority women

Smith, Eva D.; Phillips, James; Price, Marva M.

doi:10.1053/sonu.2001.25945

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“…Asian American women seem to experience similar barriers to Pap screening as other minority groups such as inadequate knowledge and lack of sources of usual care (5,6). However, given that 69% of Asian Americans are foreign born (7), they are likely to experience unique linguistic and cultural barriers to Pap screening (5,6,8).…”

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Disparities in Cervical Cancer Screening between Asian American and Non-Hispanic White Women

Wang

Sheppard

Schwartz

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Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &Amp; Prevention

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Background: Asian American women have higher cervical cancer mortality rates than non-Hispanic White women, yet have lower Pap screening rates than their White counterparts. This study examined whether ethnic differences in the use of Pap screening were associated with differences in cultural views, controlling for demographic and access factors. Methods: Cross-sectional survey data from the Commonwealth 2001 Health Care Quality Survey were used. Non-Hispanic White (n = 2,146) and Asian American women (including Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, and Japanese; n = 259) were included in this study. Eastern cultural views were measured by beliefs in the role of self-care and luck. Access factors (having health insurance, regular providers, and communication with providers) and demographics of patients and providers were measured. The outcome was receipt of a Pap test in the past 2 years.

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“…However, given that 69% of Asian Americans are foreign born (7), they are likely to experience unique linguistic and cultural barriers to Pap screening (5,6,8). Prior research shows that Asians have different views and practices in health care than Whites (9).…”

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Disparities in Cervical Cancer Screening between Asian American and Non-Hispanic White Women

Wang

Sheppard

Schwartz

et al. 2008

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &Amp; Prevention

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“…However, special populations including those of some racial and ethnic minorities, the socially disadvantaged, the disabled, new immigrants, and the elderly have displayed lower levels of participation in screening tests. 1,2 Therefore, the proposed training program will be targeted to reducing health disparities related to breast cancer screening in immigrant Asian women. The overall objective of the proposed study is to obtain scientific and systematic understanding of breast cancer screening practices and its associated factors among Asian women residing in southeastern…”

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Development of Tailored Intervention to Promote Breast Cancer Screening Among Immigrant Asian Women Residing in the U.S.

Wu¹

2006

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Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing this collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports (0704-0188), 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302. Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. PLEASE DO NOT RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YYYY) SPONSORING / MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5012 SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT NUMBER(S) DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENTApproved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ABSTRACTBreast cancer is the leading diagnosed cancer in Asian American women. American women are more likely to receive a diagnosis in the advanced stages of the disease, primarily because of late detection. The primary objective of the proposed project is to obtain a better understanding of those factors affecting breast cancer screening (BCS) practices among Asian women residing in southeastern Michigan. The preliminary findings from the focus groups meetings conducted in 40 women from Taiwan, Korea, Philippines and India showed that there are common and unique barriers toward BCS and these barriers are linked to their cultural background and health care received in their native countries. The information will be used to develop a culturally-sensitive instrument to measure BCS practices and correlates and administered to 188 Asian women. The results of this project contribute to the in-depth understanding of BCS utilization and factors affecting BCS practices in immigrant Asians.

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“…But very little is known about intercultural differences between breast cancer patients (Nicholson, 1996;Smith et al, 2001) and, even less, about differences between English-and Germanlanguage web sites as mirrors of intercultural differences in patients' needs. Though the Internet is propagated as a 'global medium' theoretically enabling millions of people worldwide to communicate and share information electronically, the Internet as used by cancer patients emerged as a 'local medium', limited by language barriers.…”

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Breast cancer: patient information needs reflected in English and German web sites

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Individual belief and knowledge about cancer were shown to influence coping and compliance of patients. Supposing that the Internet information both has impact on patients and reflects patients' information needs, breast cancer web sites in English and German language were evaluated to assess the information quality and were compared with each other to identify intercultural differences. Search engines returned 10 616 hits related to breast cancer. Of these, 4590 relevant hits were analysed. In all, 1888 web pages belonged to 132 English-language web sites and 2702 to 65 German-language web sites. Results showed that palliative therapy (4.5 vs 16.7%; P ¼ 0.004), alternative medicine (18.2 vs 46.2%; Po0.001), and disease-related information (prognosis, cancer aftercare, selfhelp groups, and epidemiology) were significantly more often found on German-language web sites. Therapy-related information (including the side effects of therapy and new studies) was significantly more often given by English-language web sites: for example, details about surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone therapy, immune therapy, and stem cell transplantation. In conclusion, our results have implications for patient education by physicians and may help to improve patient support by tailoring information, considering the weak points in information provision by web sites and intercultural differences in patient needs. In December 2000, 42% of the European females were using the Internet with a clear upward trend (Kögel and Longo, 2001). Notably, women older than 50 years turned out to be the most active group of Internet users (Pichler and Gilg, 2001). In April 2001, Harris Interactive published results indicating that 75% of all adults who had access to the Internet used the Internet to collect health and medical information (Taylor and Leitman, 2001). In the USA, 54% of the Internet users searched the Web for health-related information compared to 26% in Europe, as demonstrated by a survey of Health On the Net (HON) Foundation in 2001. More females (51%) than males (49%) used the Internet to search for health-related information (HON, 2002). The main obstacle for patients is 'that there is so much information on the Net, big parts of it are incomplete, misleading, or inaccurate' (Achenbach, 1996). Correspondingly, Silberg et al (1997) had criticised the information on the Internet as not peer reviewed and pointed out the dangers of relying on such invalidated information.Due to the high incidence of mamma carcinoma (Weir et al, 2003), breast cancer web sites attract a high number of information seekers. In addition, breast cancer patients have gained a higher awareness of their disease during the last decades. They demand breaking taboos considering breast cancer, they refuse to hide their illnesses any longer, and many develop a different attitude towards their disease, which is known as 'fighting spirit' (Greer, 2000). Breast cancer patients, therefore, can be considered pioneers of a new type of self-confident patients (Biel, 19...

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Screening and early detection among racial and ethnic minority women

Cited by 19 publications

References 38 publications

Disparities in Cervical Cancer Screening between Asian American and Non-Hispanic White Women

Disparities in Cervical Cancer Screening between Asian American and Non-Hispanic White Women

Development of Tailored Intervention to Promote Breast Cancer Screening Among Immigrant Asian Women Residing in the U.S.

Breast cancer: patient information needs reflected in English and German web sites

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