You Do What You Got To Do: African-American Women's Perspectives of Managing Breast Cancer.

You Do What You Got To Do: African-American Women's Perspectives of Managing Breast Cancer. ABNF J. 2016 Autumn;27(4):92-98 Authors: Kennedy KS, Rollins P Abstract The purpose of this study is to build a grounded theory of the process of diagnosis, treatment, and coping in African-American women diagnosed with stage 1-3 breast cancer, and identifying factors that may lead to resiliency in these women. Factors promoting resiliency identified by the participants included having a voice, self-attunement, spirituality, pragmatism, and keeping positive. Based on the findings, the researchers suggest health care providers work to create patient-centered healthcare,facilities for cancer treatment, validate patient self-agency, encourage communion, and hire staff that have been previously diagnosed with breast cancer to act as mentors. PMID: 29890056 [PubMed]
Source: ABNF Journal : Official Journal of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty in Higher Education Inc - Category: Nursing Tags: ABNF J Source Type: research