Chinese-Australian women with breast cancer call for culturally appropriate information and improved communication with health professionals.

Cancer Reports
Janelle V LevesqueAfaf Girgis

Abstract

For culturally and linguistically diverse patients, breast cancer presents complex physical, psychosocial, and health care challenges, often exacerbated by a lack of culturally appropriate information and communication barriers with the treating team (even with the help of interpreters). This qualitative study aims to broadly explore the experience of breast cancer and coping strategies utilized by Chinese-Australian women. Twenty-four Chinese-Australian women with breast cancer participated in either a semi-structured interview or a focus group conducted in participants' preferred language, audio-recorded, transcribed, and subjected to thematic analysis. Two prominent themes emerged, related to information seeking, and communication with health care professionals. The theme of information needs and seeking highlighted unmet information needs and the multiple sources that are consulted for information. The second theme, communication with health care professionals, language barriers, and preferences, identified varying degrees of involvement in treatment decision-making, preference for information and interactions in Cantonese or Mandarin, and problems with interpreter services. Chinese women with breast cancer face significant...Continue Reading

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Jun 2, 2020·Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing·Janelle V LevesqueAfaf Girgis

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