Class, race, ethnicity and information needs in post-treatment cancer patients

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 432-439

  Galarce, Ezequiel M ^a,b   Ramanadhan, Shoba ^b   Weeks, Jane ^b,c   Schneider, Eric C ^a,c   Gray, Stacy W ^b   Viswanath, Kasisomayajula ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Communication disparities; Health communication; Health disparities; Health information seeking; Shared decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SELF CARE; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SERVICES; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81555216814     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.01.030     Document Type: Article

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