Louis A. Penner|John F. Dovidio|Nao Hagiwara|Tanina Foster|Terrance L. Albrecht|Robert A. Chapman|Susan Eggly
An Analysis of Race-related Attitudes and Beliefs in Black Cancer Patients: Implications for Health Care Disparities
research concerned relationships among black cancer patients health care attitudes behaviors eg adherence decisional control preferences racerelated attitudes beliefs shaped general life experiences ie perceived discrimination racial identity b experiences interacting health care systems ie physician mistrust suspicion medical care perceived discrimination racial identity medical suspicion correlated weakly one another mistrust suspicion correlated moderately racerelated attitudes beliefs associated health care attitudes behavior patterns association varied physician mistrust medical suspicion independently correlated adherence decisional control preferences discrimination correlated control preferences associations among patients different racial attitudesbeliefs complex previously assumed interventions target patient attitudesbeliefs health care disparities might productive focus mistrust suspicion specific health care providerssystems correlates identified study