Can a culturally responsive model for research design bring us closer to addressing participation disparities? Lessons learned from cancer survivorship studies

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 130-137

  Ashing Giwa, Kimlin Tam ^a  

^a ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Culture; Ethnic minority; Health disparities; Multicultural research; Recruitment; Research design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MINORITY GROUP; MORBIDITY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCESS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SAFETY; SAMPLING; SOCIAL ASPECT; STAFF TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 14644436344     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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