在患有癌症和移民背景的患者中使用补充和替代医学
Alex Wu1, Yunhong Wu2, Vijaya Natarajan1
1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
JCO global oncology
|June 22, 2023
概括
癌症患者使用补充和替代医学 (CAM) 来缓解症状. 这项研究发现,非裔美国患者的CAM使用率最高,受文化背景的影响,无论移民身份如何.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 综合医学是一个整体的医学.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 患有癌症的患者经常使用补充和替代医学 (CAM) 来治疗症状并寻找希望.
- 影响癌症患者中CAM使用的因素,特别是种族,种族和移民身份,需要进一步调查.
研究的目的:
- 评估种族,族群和移民地位对癌症患者使用CAM的影响.
- 了解社区癌症中心内的多样化的患者群体中CAM寻求行为的模式.
主要方法:
- 在纽约布鲁克林的一家社区癌症中心进行了前性问卷研究.
- 收集的数据包括人口统计,癌症信息,种族/种族,移民持续时间和心理社会因素,与CAM使用相关.
主要成果:
- 在658名癌症患者中,CAM使用率为66.11%.
- 非洲血统的患者报告使用CAM的比例较高 (72.73%) 与白人患者 (63.53%) 相比.
- 与美国出生的个人相比 (66.50%),亚洲出生的移民的CAM使用率较低 (53.77%),而拉丁美洲出生的患者的使用率更高 (74.83%). 祈祷和精神是最常见的CAM亚型.
结论:
- 在这个具有显著移民背景的队列中,非裔美国患者中使用CAM最为普遍.
- 非白人患者使用CAM与他们的种族背景有关,不管他们是否出生在美国.
- 文化根源似乎是癌症患者采用CAM疗法的重要决定因素.
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