Event Title
Poster: Health and Cancer Beliefs and Attitudes among Urban Chinese
Location
Moakley Atrium
Start Time
9-5-2012 3:45 PM
End Time
9-5-2012 5:00 PM
Description
Research demonstrates disparities in healthcare access and cancer outcomes in underserved populations. It is crucial to understand attitudes and experiences about health and cancer in these populations. Many Chinese Americans, particularly immigrants, have low incomes, lack health insurance and rarely participate in preventive screening, clinical trials and cancer treatment. We held urban community based focus groups in English and Cantonese with foreign and American born Chinese ages 18 to 79, to learn more about Chinese Americans’ health beliefs. Focus groups were analyzed and results reported in 4 categories: health paradigms, cancer care and barriers, communication, and recommendations for improved prevention, screening and care. Major findings: persistence of belief in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in new immigrants and acculturated Chinese, desire to see TCM and Western Medicine (WM) used together for treatment and curing disease, reasons for caution about WM and reluctance to participate in WM prevention, care and cancer clinical trials.
Poster: Health and Cancer Beliefs and Attitudes among Urban Chinese
Moakley Atrium
Research demonstrates disparities in healthcare access and cancer outcomes in underserved populations. It is crucial to understand attitudes and experiences about health and cancer in these populations. Many Chinese Americans, particularly immigrants, have low incomes, lack health insurance and rarely participate in preventive screening, clinical trials and cancer treatment. We held urban community based focus groups in English and Cantonese with foreign and American born Chinese ages 18 to 79, to learn more about Chinese Americans’ health beliefs. Focus groups were analyzed and results reported in 4 categories: health paradigms, cancer care and barriers, communication, and recommendations for improved prevention, screening and care. Major findings: persistence of belief in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in new immigrants and acculturated Chinese, desire to see TCM and Western Medicine (WM) used together for treatment and curing disease, reasons for caution about WM and reluctance to participate in WM prevention, care and cancer clinical trials.