Impact of Institutional- and Individual-Level Discrimination on Medical Care and Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Survivors

Abstract

During this reporting period, we completed analysis and reported on the qualitative focus group and one-on-one interviews, finalized the survey and cognitive guide for testing the survey in the cognitive phase, completed translation of the survey and cognitive guide documents into Spanish, Chinese and Tagalog, and completed 36 total cognitive interviews with breast cancer survivors from 7 racial/ethnic groups. Because of the complexities of issues that were identified in the qualitative analysis, we decided to include more survey items than originally intended to be tested in the cognitive phase and, to reduce participant fatigue, we split the cognitive survey guide into two interviews, with the goal of testing each overall section of the survey on 3 participants. We conducted a thorough analysis of the aggregate cognitive data, tested revisions to problematic questions on remaining cognitive participants, further revised, and ultimately finalized the survey instrument. We have developed training materials and protocol for the final, epidemiologic, study phase.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA549841

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  • Scarlett Gomez

Organizations

  • Cancer Prevention Institute of California

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • African Americans
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Fertility
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Instructions
  • Intestinal Diseases
  • Lung Diseases
  • Medical Personnel
  • Native Americans
  • Physicians
  • Quality Of Life
  • Therapy
  • Vascular Diseases

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