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Impact of Seismic Activity on Access to Health Care in Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients from Puerto Rico

On 7 January 2020, the southern region of Puerto Rico was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, followed by continual seismic activity. Our team performed secondary analyses to explore the relationship between exposure to seismic activity, protection (support) received, and barriers to health care a...

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Autores principales: Peña-Vargas, Cristina, Toro-Morales, Yoamy, Valentin, Paola, López, María, Rodriguez-Castro, Zindie, Hernandez-Torres, Ruthmarie, Tollinchi-Natali, Nelmit, Torres-Blasco, Normarie, Pereira, Cristina, Armaiz-Pena, Guillermo N., Jim, Heather, Castro-Figueroa, Eida M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8998998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409926
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074246
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author Peña-Vargas, Cristina
Toro-Morales, Yoamy
Valentin, Paola
López, María
Rodriguez-Castro, Zindie
Hernandez-Torres, Ruthmarie
Tollinchi-Natali, Nelmit
Torres-Blasco, Normarie
Pereira, Cristina
Armaiz-Pena, Guillermo N.
Jim, Heather
Castro-Figueroa, Eida M.
author_facet Peña-Vargas, Cristina
Toro-Morales, Yoamy
Valentin, Paola
López, María
Rodriguez-Castro, Zindie
Hernandez-Torres, Ruthmarie
Tollinchi-Natali, Nelmit
Torres-Blasco, Normarie
Pereira, Cristina
Armaiz-Pena, Guillermo N.
Jim, Heather
Castro-Figueroa, Eida M.
author_sort Peña-Vargas, Cristina
collection PubMed
description On 7 January 2020, the southern region of Puerto Rico was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, followed by continual seismic activity. Our team performed secondary analyses to explore the relationship between exposure to seismic activity, protection (support) received, and barriers to health care access for cancer patients. Methods: The research team collected data from the database of a longitudinal case-control cohort parent study concerning the impact of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rican cancer patients. The participants from the parent study were recruited in community clinics. The extracted data was collected from 51 cancer patients who completed the parent study’s interviews from January–July 2020 (seismic activity period). Barriers to health care were assessed using the Barrier to Care Questionaries (BCQ), which is composed of five subscales: skills, marginalization, knowledge and beliefs expectations, and pragmatics. Exposure to seismic activity and protection was assessed using their respective subscales from the Scale of Psychosocial Impact of Disasters. Results: The results showed a significant relationship between exposure to seismic activity and barriers to health care (p < 0.001) and its five subscales (p < 0.01). These results shed light on potential access to care barriers that could hinder cancer patient treatment in the event of a natural disaster.
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spelling pubmed-89989982022-04-12 Impact of Seismic Activity on Access to Health Care in Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients from Puerto Rico Peña-Vargas, Cristina Toro-Morales, Yoamy Valentin, Paola López, María Rodriguez-Castro, Zindie Hernandez-Torres, Ruthmarie Tollinchi-Natali, Nelmit Torres-Blasco, Normarie Pereira, Cristina Armaiz-Pena, Guillermo N. Jim, Heather Castro-Figueroa, Eida M. Int J Environ Res Public Health Communication On 7 January 2020, the southern region of Puerto Rico was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, followed by continual seismic activity. Our team performed secondary analyses to explore the relationship between exposure to seismic activity, protection (support) received, and barriers to health care access for cancer patients. Methods: The research team collected data from the database of a longitudinal case-control cohort parent study concerning the impact of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rican cancer patients. The participants from the parent study were recruited in community clinics. The extracted data was collected from 51 cancer patients who completed the parent study’s interviews from January–July 2020 (seismic activity period). Barriers to health care were assessed using the Barrier to Care Questionaries (BCQ), which is composed of five subscales: skills, marginalization, knowledge and beliefs expectations, and pragmatics. Exposure to seismic activity and protection was assessed using their respective subscales from the Scale of Psychosocial Impact of Disasters. Results: The results showed a significant relationship between exposure to seismic activity and barriers to health care (p < 0.001) and its five subscales (p < 0.01). These results shed light on potential access to care barriers that could hinder cancer patient treatment in the event of a natural disaster. MDPI 2022-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8998998/ /pubmed/35409926 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074246 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Peña-Vargas, Cristina
Toro-Morales, Yoamy
Valentin, Paola
López, María
Rodriguez-Castro, Zindie
Hernandez-Torres, Ruthmarie
Tollinchi-Natali, Nelmit
Torres-Blasco, Normarie
Pereira, Cristina
Armaiz-Pena, Guillermo N.
Jim, Heather
Castro-Figueroa, Eida M.
Impact of Seismic Activity on Access to Health Care in Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients from Puerto Rico
title Impact of Seismic Activity on Access to Health Care in Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients from Puerto Rico
title_full Impact of Seismic Activity on Access to Health Care in Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients from Puerto Rico
title_fullStr Impact of Seismic Activity on Access to Health Care in Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients from Puerto Rico
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title_short Impact of Seismic Activity on Access to Health Care in Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients from Puerto Rico
title_sort impact of seismic activity on access to health care in hispanic/latino cancer patients from puerto rico
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8998998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409926
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074246
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