Educación de supervivencia para supervivientes de cáncer de mama latinas: empoderando a las supervivientes a través de la educación

Abstract

Objectives Nueva Luz is an English and Spanish quality of life (QOL) intervention developed to address the educational needs of Latina breast cancer survivors and provide strategies to assist in their transition into survivorship. Methods A qualitative approach was used to evaluate the English and Spanish educational intervention (Nueva Luz). A purposive sample of eight Latina breast cancer survivors was selected from the group who received the intervention to participate in a digitally recorded interview. Data was analyzed using thematic analysis. Results Findings provide evidence that the one-on-one tailored approach is a feasible and acceptable method of providing a bilingual psychosocial intervention. The provision of printed bilingual information along with the verbal instruction from a bilingual and culturally competent health care provider can be effective in helping Latina breast cancer survivor’s transition successfully into survivorship, improve QOL and contribute to better patient outcomes Conclusions The study informs our understanding of the cultural context in patient education content and delivery of psychosocial interventions. The findings may also have relevance for other ethnic minority cancer survivors.

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“…Among them, the lifetime risk for cancer is striking: 1 in 2 for men and 1 in 3 for women [2]. With growing numbers of Latinas surviving breast cancer [3,4], attention to quality of life (QOL) issues in this population has also increased [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. …”

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