Diversity in cancer care: exploring social categories in encounters between healthcare professionals and breast cancer patients

Nyholm, Nanna; Halvorsen, Ida; Mygind, Anna; Christensen, Ulla; Kristiansen, Maria

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“…Furthermore, studies have shown that HPs tend to use their own preconceptions in assessing patient resources rather than involving the patient, 19,20 that HPs were less likely to offer rehabilitation to patients whom they considered to have fewer resources, 22 and that health discourse emphasizing patients' proactivity and responsibility for their own health favoured the physically and socially more privileged 23 …”

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A qualitative study of mechanisms influencing social inequality in cancer communication

2021

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Objective To understand and describe mechanisms influencing social inequality in cancer communication between patients, companions and healthcare professionals. Methods The study was based on observations of 104 encounters and 30 semi‐structured interviews with nurses and medical doctors on three Danish oncology wards. Observations, interviews and subsequent analysis were guided by the theoretical framework of cultural health capital developed by Shim to investigate mechanisms that may generate social inequality in cancer communication. The analysis addressed both interactive processes and interpretative meanings. Results Information exchange was affected by (1) patient insight and preparation, (2) the presence of companions, and (3) communicating on patients' “home ground.” Patients who, on the basis of language and hygiene, were assessed to have low capacity, received less information. Lack of mutual exchange of information left healthcare professionals and patients with fewer opportunities to provide—or receive—the best treatment. Conclusion Exchange of information between patients, companions and healthcare professionals is co‐constructed in a mutual dynamic. To avoid social inequality in cancer communication, it is crucial that questions and answers allow proportionate insight into disease and treatment both for patients and for healthcare professionals.

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A qualitative study of mechanisms influencing social inequality in cancer communication

2021

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Diversity in cancer care: exploring social categories in encounters between healthcare professionals and breast cancer patients

Abstract: There is a need for a greater focus on improving encounters between breast cancer patients and healthcare professionals to ensure that rehabilitation needs are accommodated for among diverse patient groups.

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A qualitative study of mechanisms influencing social inequality in cancer communication

A qualitative study of mechanisms influencing social inequality in cancer communication

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