Stigma and On-line Health Information Seeking of U.S. South Asian Cancer Survivors

The internet has replaced physicians as primary health information source for cancer-survivors.It is important to uncover barriers/facilitators to cancer information seeking, particularly on-line.Asian Americans are the fastest growing U.S racial/ethnic minority, 2) cancer is the leading cause of r...

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Published inStudies in health technology and informatics Vol. 216; p. 996
Main Authors George, Sheba M, Kagawa Singer, Marjorie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 2015
Subjects
Asia, Western - ethnology
Culture
Humans
Information Seeking Behavior
Neoplasms - ethnology
Neoplasms - psychology
Patient Education as Topic
Stereotyping
Survivors - psychology
United States
United States
Asia, Western
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Summary:The internet has replaced physicians as primary health information source for cancer-survivors.It is important to uncover barriers/facilitators to cancer information seeking, particularly on-line.Asian Americans are the fastest growing U.S racial/ethnic minority, 2) cancer is the leading cause of r death and 3) cancer knowledge is low among them and little research is done on their cancer information seeking strategies. This study aims to examine qualitatively cancer information-seeking patterns of the Asian American group, South Asians, using in-depth interview methods. Family members and social networks are highly engaged in providing informational support to South Asian cancer survivors. such collaborative information seeking is limited by stigma related to cancer and must be taken into consideration when developing culturally appropriate cancer health information seeking interventions in such communities.
ISSN:0926-9630
DOI:10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-996