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Factors Influencing Medical Information Seeking Among African American Cancer Patients
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Qualitative research methods were used to explore factors that may affect medical information seeking, treatment engagement, and emotional adjustment among African American cancer patients. Focus group findings suggest that an array of cultural and socioeconomic factors plays important roles in the behavior of African American cancer patients. Participants described a number of important barriers and facilitators of medical information seeking and treatment participation. Factors linked to the health care-related behaviors and adjustment of African American cancer patients included limited knowledge and misinformation about cancer, mistrust of the medical community, concerns about privacy, lack of insurance, religious beliefs, and emotional issues such as fear and stigma associated with seeking emotional support. Recommendations are made that may assist mental and physical health providers in improving patient information and mental and physical health outcomes of African American cancer patients.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Matthews, A. K., Sellergren, S. A., Manfredi, C., & Williams, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- ORCID
- Matthews, Alicia K.
- Venue
- Journal of Health Communication
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2002-05
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 205-219
- ISSN
- 1081-0730 (ISSN-L)
- 1087-0415
- OpenAlex
- W2062414365
- Cited by
- 233
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 13.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Health Communication (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
- Keywords
- health information seeking, cancer, cultural factors, socioeconomic factors, treatment engagement, emotional adjustment, health misinformation, privacy concerns, lack of insurance, religious beliefs, emotional support, barriers and facilitators
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Black or African American, Female, Humans, Information Services, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Patient Education as Topic, Physician-Patient Relations, United States, Patient Satisfaction, Focus Groups
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
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