Internet Use among Chinese-American Breast Cancer Survivors
| Autor: | Jenny K. Yi, Marion P. Zahn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Oncology
China medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) education Patient characteristics Breast Neoplasms Multilingualism Health literacy Health Promotion Education Breast cancer Internal medicine medicine Humans Chinese americans Internet Internet use Asian business.industry Information seeking Communication Barriers Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Texas Health Literacy Family medicine Female The Internet Health information business Psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Quarterly of Community Health Education. 31:359-368 |
| ISSN: | 1541-3519 0272-684X |
| DOI: | 10.2190/iq.31.4.d |
| Popis: | This study describes information seeking behaviors and patient characteristics associated with Internet use by 72 Chinese-American breast cancer survivors diagnosed in the past 5 years and living in Houston, Texas. Face-to-face interviews showed that only 56% used the Internet for health information; only 9% used e-mail or visited a website to communicate with a doctor's office or get online provider advice. Results indicate that health providers who want to reach breast cancer patients with limited English skills need to take into account this low use of Internet resources and web-based information. Particularly important is the need to develop and make available culturally effective and appropriate health information in the native languages of the patients to promote greater health literacy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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