在受到严重影响的移民社区中,关于乙型肝炎和肝癌的现有知识,神话和看法
Thomas Chen1, Fiona Borondy-Jenkins2, Beatrice Zovich2
1Department of Internal Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, New York, United States.
Journal of virus eradication
|July 10, 2024
概括
在不同移民社区,关于乙型肝炎和肝癌的知识存在重大差距. 对文化敏感的教育对于减少差距,促进预防和改善这些弱势群体的早期发现至关重要.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 肝病学 肝病学是一种肝病学.
- 癌症流行病学 癌症流行病学
背景情况:
- 一些移民群体,包括来自东南亚,太平洋岛屿,撒哈拉以南非洲和加勒比地区的移民,在美国不成比例地经历了慢性乙型肝炎和原发性肝癌的高发病率.
- 教育举措至关重要,以提高对这些疾病及其相互联系的认识,促进这些社区内的保护性健康行为.
- 最终的目标包括减少疾病负担,减轻耻辱和消除健康差异.
研究的目的:
- 让受乙型肝炎和肝癌严重影响的社区参与,以确定知识缺陷.
- 为制定有针对性的健康教育计划提供信息,旨在减少耻辱,促进预防和早期发现肝癌.
- 解决跨不同群体的知识和行为差异.
主要方法:
- 进行了十五个虚拟焦点小组和两个关键告密者采访.
- 来自各种移民社区的参与者,包括密克罗尼西亚人,中国人,赫蒙族人,尼日利亚人,加纳人,越南人,韩国人,索马里人,埃塞俄比亚人,菲律宾人,海地人和法语西非人.
- 使用主题编码分析了定性数据.
主要成果:
- 确定了关于乙型肝炎,肝癌及其在亚洲,太平洋岛民,非洲和海地移民社区之间的联系的知识和意识的重大差距.
- 发现有限的知识和错误信息,加上耻辱,阻碍这些群体获得乙型肝炎和肝癌的诊断和预防医疗服务.
- 强调需要文化和语言上适当的卫生教育.
结论:
- 卫生教育必须是社区知情,文化敏感和可操作的,以有效地减少乙型肝炎和肝癌的健康差异.
- 研究结果可以指导创建定制的教育计划,重点关注乙型肝炎 - 肝癌联系,疫苗接种和查.
- 结果为医疗保健提供者提供了洞察力,以解决不同患者群体之间的知识差距.
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