ArticleWestern journal of nursing research2017
Western or Traditional Healers? Understanding Decision Making in the Hmong Population.
Article in Western journal of nursing research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Systematic Review: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Among Hmong Adults in the USA.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2018Pooled it
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- Barriers to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Management for Older Hmong Patients with Minimal English Language Skills: Accounts from Caregivers, Case Managers, and Clinicians.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
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- Sex differences in health status, healthcare utilization, and costs among individuals with elevated blood pressure: the LARK study from Western Kenya.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Healthcare Disparities Identified Between Hmong and Other Asian Origin Groups Living with Chronic Hepatitis B Infection in Sacramento County 2014-2017.Journal of community health · 2020Article
- Hmong Older Adults' Perceptions of Insider and Outsider Researchers: Does It Matter for Research Participation?Nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
Research has documented the influence of cultural values, beliefs, and traditional health practices on immigrants' health care utilization in their host countries. We describe our findings of how Hmong immigrants to the United States make decisions about whether and when to use traditional and/or Western health services. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 Hmong adults. We found their decisions depended on whether they classified the illness as spiritual or not and how they evaluated the effectiveness of different treatment options for their illness. Hmong participants' expectations for effective treatment in traditional or Western health care encounters combined with physical evidence of an illness influenced their decisions and often led them to shift from one type of care to the other. Understanding cultural differences in perceptions of the causes of illnesses and the link between perceived cause and treatment is important to improving care for the Hmong population.
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