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Indigenous Australians’ Experiences of Cancer Care: A Narrative Literature Review

To provide the latest evidence for future research and practice, this study critically reviewed Indigenous peoples’ cancer care experiences in the Australian healthcare system from the patient’s point of view. After searching PubMed, CINAHL and Scopus databases, twenty-three qualitative studies were...

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Autores principales: Sanjida, Saira, Garvey, Gail, Ward, James, Bainbridge, Roxanne, Shakeshaft, Anthony, Hadikusumo, Stephanie, Nelson, Carmel, Thilakaratne, Prabasha, Hou, Xiang-Yu
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9779788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36554828
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416947
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author Sanjida, Saira
Garvey, Gail
Ward, James
Bainbridge, Roxanne
Shakeshaft, Anthony
Hadikusumo, Stephanie
Nelson, Carmel
Thilakaratne, Prabasha
Hou, Xiang-Yu
author_facet Sanjida, Saira
Garvey, Gail
Ward, James
Bainbridge, Roxanne
Shakeshaft, Anthony
Hadikusumo, Stephanie
Nelson, Carmel
Thilakaratne, Prabasha
Hou, Xiang-Yu
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description To provide the latest evidence for future research and practice, this study critically reviewed Indigenous peoples’ cancer care experiences in the Australian healthcare system from the patient’s point of view. After searching PubMed, CINAHL and Scopus databases, twenty-three qualitative studies were included in this review. The inductive approach was used for analysing qualitative data on cancer care experience in primary, tertiary and transitional care between systems. Three main themes were found in healthcare services from Indigenous cancer care experiences: communication, cultural safety, and access to services. Communication was an important theme for all healthcare systems, including language and literacy, understanding of cancer care pathways and hospital environment, and lack of information. Cultural safety was related to trust in the system, privacy, and racism. Access to health services was the main concern in transitional care between healthcare systems. While some challenges will need long-term and collective efforts, such as institutional racism as a downstream effect of colonisation, cultural training for healthcare providers and increasing the volume of the Indigenous workforce, such as Indigenous Liaison Officers or Indigenous Care Coordinators, could effectively address this inequity issue for Indigenous people with cancer in Australia in a timely manner.
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spelling pubmed-97797882022-12-23 Indigenous Australians’ Experiences of Cancer Care: A Narrative Literature Review Sanjida, Saira Garvey, Gail Ward, James Bainbridge, Roxanne Shakeshaft, Anthony Hadikusumo, Stephanie Nelson, Carmel Thilakaratne, Prabasha Hou, Xiang-Yu Int J Environ Res Public Health Review To provide the latest evidence for future research and practice, this study critically reviewed Indigenous peoples’ cancer care experiences in the Australian healthcare system from the patient’s point of view. After searching PubMed, CINAHL and Scopus databases, twenty-three qualitative studies were included in this review. The inductive approach was used for analysing qualitative data on cancer care experience in primary, tertiary and transitional care between systems. Three main themes were found in healthcare services from Indigenous cancer care experiences: communication, cultural safety, and access to services. Communication was an important theme for all healthcare systems, including language and literacy, understanding of cancer care pathways and hospital environment, and lack of information. Cultural safety was related to trust in the system, privacy, and racism. Access to health services was the main concern in transitional care between healthcare systems. While some challenges will need long-term and collective efforts, such as institutional racism as a downstream effect of colonisation, cultural training for healthcare providers and increasing the volume of the Indigenous workforce, such as Indigenous Liaison Officers or Indigenous Care Coordinators, could effectively address this inequity issue for Indigenous people with cancer in Australia in a timely manner. MDPI 2022-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9779788/ /pubmed/36554828 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416947 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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