Engaging the community on colorectal cancer screening: Additional factors identified by African Americans as potential barriers during focus groups

CONCLUSIONS: Focus group discussion identified multiple barriers for colorectal cancer screening. Notably, differences in the perceptions of African-American community members and non-African-American health care learners about racial disparity in health care, physician respect toward patients and insufficient physician discussion were revealed. The integration of bi-directional focus group learning can be considered as a potential strategy to assist in the development of focused screening interventions.PMID:37852880 | DOI:10.1016/j.jnma.2023.09.010

Source: Journal of the National Medical Association - October 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ankit Patel Valeria Martinez Lebron Ana Pabalan Samuel A Schueler Jehan El-Bayoumi Chavon Onumah Marie L Borum Source Type: research