Accustomed to enduring: experiences of African-American women seeking care for cardiac symptoms.
Heart Lung
; 34(1): 13-21, 2005.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15647730
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Understand the meaning of delayed treatment seeking in African-American women with unstable angina and myocardial infarction.METHODS:
Phenomenologic analysis of in-depth interview data and field notes on 12 African-American women hospitalized with unstable angina or myocardial infarction.RESULTS:
Women's interpretation of and response to symptoms were informed by experiences of marginalization and their self-understanding as people who were strong and who had endured life's hardships. When hospitalized, some women experienced trivialization of their complaints by clinicians and a focus on technological procedures over respectfully attending to their concerns, which provided further disincentives to seeking care. Three major themes emerged misrecognition and discounting of symptoms, enduring, and influence of faith.CONCLUSIONS:
Experiences of marginalization shape responses to symptoms, care-seeking behavior, and interpretation of subsequent care experiences for African-American women with cardiac disease, who may experience different symptoms as well as interpret them differently than members of other groups.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Women
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Patient Acceptance of Health Care
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Black People
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Angina, Unstable
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Myocardial Infarction
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
Language:
En
Journal:
Heart Lung
Year:
2005
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos