Ethnic differences in choices of health information by cancer patients using complementary and alternative medicine: An exploratory study with correspondence analysis

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 851-862

  Kakai, Hisako ^a   Maskarinec, Gertraud ^a   Shumay, Dianne M ^a   Tatsumura, Yvonne ^a   Tasaki, Katsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asians; Cancer; Complementary medicine; Ethnicity; Health information; Japanese Americans; Pacific Islanders

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; RACIAL DISPARITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BOOK; CANCER PATIENT; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNET; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; PUBLICATION; TELEPHONE; TELEVISION;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; COMMUNICATION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CULTURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0037305322     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00086-2     Document Type: Article

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