What Role Can Trained Volunteers Add to Chronic Disease Care of Immigrants?
Autor: | Nina Mamishi, Ellen Rosenberg, Gillian Bartlett, Tamara E. Carver |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Volunteers
medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Exploratory research Emigrants and Immigrants 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) Immigrants medicine Humans Family 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Original Paper Health professionals Health goals Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Life goals Chronic disease Home visits 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Family medicine Chronic Disease Quality of Life Health information Psychology |
Zdroj: | Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health |
ISSN: | 1557-1920 |
Popis: | To help primary care teams improve patient-centered care, we elicited health and life goals of immigrants with a chronic disease. We conducted an exploratory study of the (1) acceptability of home visits by volunteers to collect health information and (2) content of health and life goals within a primary care program for immigrants with chronic disease. Pairs of trained community volunteers visited 23 patients in their homes and asked them to identify three life goals and three health goals. We conducted content analyses of written notes. Health goals were related to disease prevention and symptom control, family well-being, own quality of life, own or family members’ work and/or financial situation. Life goals concerned family well-being, their own quality of life, work/financial situation and health. Given the limited time health professionals have with their patients, trained community volunteers could be important members of primary care teams caring for immigrants. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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