Webster R
Coronary Care Unit, Leicester General Hospital.
Nurs Crit Care. 1997 Sep-Oct;2(5):215-23.
The incidence of heart disease in the Asian population in the UK is high and mortality from coronary heart disease for both Asian men and women is also higher than for non-Asians. The need to provide more information on cardiac rehabilitation programmes is highlighted. Cultural factors influence how Asian people perceive the heart, health and health care practices. A number of methodological issues are pertinent to conducting research involving ethnic groups, namely inter vs intra group differences, victim blaming, sampling, measurement, language issues and researcher effect. The aim of the study is to design, refine and validate a number of tools for use with Asian people in relation to cardiac rehabilitation. Preliminary and tentative conclusions suggest that cardiac rehabilitation services need a higher profile within the Asian community and that established approaches to data collection may need to be challenged if accurate and relevant feedback is to be achieved.
在英国的亚洲人群中，心脏病发病率很高，亚洲男性和女性因冠心病导致的死亡率也高于非亚洲人。这凸显了提供更多关于心脏康复计划信息的必要性。文化因素影响着亚洲人对心脏、健康及医疗保健实践的认知。在开展涉及不同种族群体的研究时，有一些方法学问题至关重要，即组间差异与组内差异、指责受害者、抽样、测量、语言问题以及研究者效应。该研究的目的是设计、完善并验证一些用于亚洲人群心脏康复的工具。初步且暂定的结论表明，心脏康复服务在亚洲社区需要更高的关注度，并且如果要获得准确且相关的反馈，可能需要对既定的数据收集方法提出质疑。
