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CULTURALLY CONCORDANT CARE: CLINICIAN PERSPECTIVES ON PROVIDING CANCER CARE TO SOUTH ASIANS

In many South Asian (SA) cultures, cancer is stigmatized, and family members are expected to become primary caregivers. Clinicians need to be familiar with these SA needs and values to provide culturally concordant care. The South Asian Family Approaches to Disease (SAFAD) study aims to understand c...

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Autores principales: Singh, Nainwant, Manja, Veena, Pukhraj, Ambri, Risbud, Rashmi, Desai, Shreya, Schapira, Lidia, Lorenz, Karl, Trivedi, Ranak
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9771061/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2357
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author Singh, Nainwant
Manja, Veena
Pukhraj, Ambri
Risbud, Rashmi
Desai, Shreya
Schapira, Lidia
Lorenz, Karl
Trivedi, Ranak
author_facet Singh, Nainwant
Manja, Veena
Pukhraj, Ambri
Risbud, Rashmi
Desai, Shreya
Schapira, Lidia
Lorenz, Karl
Trivedi, Ranak
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description In many South Asian (SA) cultures, cancer is stigmatized, and family members are expected to become primary caregivers. Clinicians need to be familiar with these SA needs and values to provide culturally concordant care. The South Asian Family Approaches to Disease (SAFAD) study aims to understand cultural needs of SAs managing breast cancer. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with multidisciplinary clinicians at a major academic medical center about caregiver interactions, cultural dynamics affecting clinical practice, unmet patient needs, and perceptions of culturally concordant care. Participants included physicians(8), a nurse practitioner(1), a social worker(1), and a physician assistant(1) with experience in palliative care(5), hematology/oncology(4), breast cancer(3), critical care(2), and radiation oncology(1) with one to 42 years in practice. Participants identified as Caucasian/White(6), South Asian(3), African American/Black(1), and Chinese(1). Clinicians noted the following: 1)SAs have greater family involvement in care and may defer treatment decisions to family members; 2)SAs seek clinician support with cancer management and nutrition; 3)SA emotions and hesitation around sensitive topics may result in non-disclosure; 4)SAs have diverse caregiver roles; and 5)individual SA needs cannot be generalized within the diaspora. “There’s still some stigma… with breast cancer… [it] may lead a patient to not want to share their diagnosis… then set up a patient for having less support… [We can] help them feel more comfortable opening up selectively.” Understanding such cultural needs is essential to cultivating trust and providing person-centered care. Interventions and resources to promote culturally concordant cancer care can target education in these areas.
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spelling pubmed-97710612023-01-24 CULTURALLY CONCORDANT CARE: CLINICIAN PERSPECTIVES ON PROVIDING CANCER CARE TO SOUTH ASIANS Singh, Nainwant Manja, Veena Pukhraj, Ambri Risbud, Rashmi Desai, Shreya Schapira, Lidia Lorenz, Karl Trivedi, Ranak Innov Aging Abstracts In many South Asian (SA) cultures, cancer is stigmatized, and family members are expected to become primary caregivers. Clinicians need to be familiar with these SA needs and values to provide culturally concordant care. The South Asian Family Approaches to Disease (SAFAD) study aims to understand cultural needs of SAs managing breast cancer. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with multidisciplinary clinicians at a major academic medical center about caregiver interactions, cultural dynamics affecting clinical practice, unmet patient needs, and perceptions of culturally concordant care. Participants included physicians(8), a nurse practitioner(1), a social worker(1), and a physician assistant(1) with experience in palliative care(5), hematology/oncology(4), breast cancer(3), critical care(2), and radiation oncology(1) with one to 42 years in practice. Participants identified as Caucasian/White(6), South Asian(3), African American/Black(1), and Chinese(1). Clinicians noted the following: 1)SAs have greater family involvement in care and may defer treatment decisions to family members; 2)SAs seek clinician support with cancer management and nutrition; 3)SA emotions and hesitation around sensitive topics may result in non-disclosure; 4)SAs have diverse caregiver roles; and 5)individual SA needs cannot be generalized within the diaspora. “There’s still some stigma… with breast cancer… [it] may lead a patient to not want to share their diagnosis… then set up a patient for having less support… [We can] help them feel more comfortable opening up selectively.” Understanding such cultural needs is essential to cultivating trust and providing person-centered care. Interventions and resources to promote culturally concordant cancer care can target education in these areas. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9771061/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2357 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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CULTURALLY CONCORDANT CARE: CLINICIAN PERSPECTIVES ON PROVIDING CANCER CARE TO SOUTH ASIANS
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title_full CULTURALLY CONCORDANT CARE: CLINICIAN PERSPECTIVES ON PROVIDING CANCER CARE TO SOUTH ASIANS
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title_sort culturally concordant care: clinician perspectives on providing cancer care to south asians
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9771061/
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