Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to evaluate the racial and ethnic diversity of study participants in recent pediatric cancer communication literature.

Methods

We systematically searched for communication studies in pediatric oncology published between January 2018 and September 2020, limiting analysis to US studies. We considered race and ethnicity as separate categories in our analysis. Two authors screened studies and abstracted characteristics of race and ethnicity reporting and enrollment.

Results

Of 98 articles included in this analysis, many studies failed to report participants' race (21/98) and ethnicity (40/98). Most studies ascertained race and ethnicity by self-report (51/98); 25 studies did not describe how they ascertained race and ethnicity. White participants were o

SUBMITTER: Sisk BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9203904 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature