Cancer beliefs and patient activation in a diverse, multilingual primary care sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Greater patient activation, defined as having the knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage one's health, is associated with cancer control behaviors. Cancer risk beliefs may be associated with patient activation, and delineating this relationship could inform cancer control interventions across diverse patient subgroups. This study examines associations between cancer risk beliefs, language preference, and patient activation within a multilingual urban primary care setting.

Design

Patients 18 years and older within a New York City public hospital serving a large proportion of non-native-born Americans were surveyed regarding their cancer risk beliefs and patient activation in Haitian Creole, Spanish, or English based on language preference during a health care

SUBMITTER: Hay JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5400010 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature