Bender Melinda, Clark Maresha, Guevara Enrique, Chee Wonshik, Im Eun-Ok
The University of Texas at Austin, TX 78701, USA.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2006;122:878-9.
Health care inequities continue to plague African Americans. For African American cancer patients these inequities include access to health care, availability of treatment modalities, support groups, and participation in nursing cancer research. A support group setting is better for recruitment than a clinical setting. Referrals to the researcher from individuals who personally know the African American cancer patients generated the best response rates. If the researcher has no previous connection with the potential participant, interest in the study may be generated but recruitment is minimal or absent. Ethnically sensitive recruitment of African American cancer patients is therefore essential to improving participatory responses in cancer nursing research.
医疗保健不平等问题继续困扰着非裔美国人。对于非裔美国癌症患者来说，这些不平等包括获得医疗保健的机会、治疗方式的可及性、支持小组以及参与护理癌症研究的情况。与临床环境相比，支持小组环境更有利于招募。由认识非裔美国癌症患者的个人向研究人员推荐，能产生最佳的回应率。如果研究人员此前与潜在参与者没有联系，可能会引发对研究的兴趣，但招募人数极少或根本没有。因此，对非裔美国癌症患者进行具有种族敏感性的招募，对于提高癌症护理研究中的参与度至关重要。
