Ethnicity and the prostate cancer experience: a qualitative metasynthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To summarize black and minority ethnic (BME) patients' and partners experiences of prostate cancer by examining the findings of existing qualitative studies.

Methods

We undertook a systematic metasynthesis of qualitative studies using a modified version of Noblit and Hare's "meta-ethnography" approach, with a 2000-2015 search of 7 databases.

Results

Thirteen studies of men from US and UK BME groups were included. We explored constructs with BME-specific features. Health care provider relationships, formation of a spiritual alliance with God (which enhanced the participants' feeling of empowerment and ability to cope with the cancer), and living on for others (generally to increase cancer awareness), often connected to spiritual regrowth, were the 3 construc

SUBMITTER: Rivas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5096040 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature