The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2015 Dec;2(4):473-80. doi: 10.1007/s40615-015-0095-x. Epub 2015 Mar 18.
Asian Americans are now the most rapidly growing minority group in the USA. Over 60 % of Asian Americans in the USA are immigrants. Cancer has been the leading cause of death among Asian Americans since 1980. Understanding the barriers to screening is essential to reduce the unnecessary burden of cancer. Little is known about colorectal cancer screening behavior among foreign-born Asian Americans and how socio-demographic factors may influence the behavior. Even less is known about disaggregated Asian subgroups. Using data from the Chicago Asian Community Survey, a local health assessment survey of three Asian subgroups in Chicago, Chinese, Cambodian, and Vietnamese, this study found that the colorectal cancer screening rate were much lower among foreign-born Asian Americans in Chicago (30 %) than the national rate for the general population (59 %). Furthermore, we studied disaggregated data to determine colorectal cancer screening differences between communities. Findings from this study provide a critical evidence base to inform future research and intervention designs.
亚裔美国人现在是美国增长最快的少数族裔群体。在美国，超过 60%的亚裔美国人是移民。自 1980 年以来，癌症一直是亚裔美国人的主要死因。了解筛查障碍对于减轻癌症的不必要负担至关重要。对于外国出生的亚裔美国人的结直肠癌筛查行为以及社会人口因素如何影响这种行为，人们知之甚少。对于亚组的了解就更少了。本研究使用来自芝加哥亚裔社区调查的数据，这是对芝加哥三个亚裔亚组（中国人、柬埔寨人和越南人）的当地健康评估调查，发现芝加哥的外国出生亚裔美国人的结直肠癌筛查率（30%）远低于全国一般人群（59%）。此外，我们研究了分类数据，以确定社区之间结直肠癌筛查的差异。这项研究的结果为未来的研究和干预设计提供了重要的证据基础。
