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Use of cancer support groups among Latina breast cancer survivorsANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
J Cancer Surviv 1:193-204. 2007..Although Latina women diagnosed with breast cancer may be at greater risk of psychosocial morbidity compared to white women, few utilize support services such as support groups. Reasons for this under-use among Latinas are unknown...- Developing a culturally competent peer support intervention for Spanish-speaking Latinas with breast cancerANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 11:268-80. 2009..Creating such psychosocial programs with input from survivors and advocates who have similar self-identities to patients would improve quality of life in diverse and underserved populations... 
Information exchange and decision making in the treatment of Latina and white women with ductal carcinoma in situANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Department of Medicine, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Psychosoc Oncol 25:19-36. 2007..Satisfaction was associated with adequate information, expediency of care, and physicians' sensitivity to patients' emotional needs...- Overview of qualitative methods in research with diverse populations. Making research reflect the populationANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
University of California San Francisco, 3333California Street, Suite 335, San Francisco, California 94118 1944, USA
Med Care 44:S5-9. 2006 - Using cognitive interviews to develop surveys in diverse populationsANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations and the Center on Aging in Diverse Communities, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94118 1944, USA
Med Care 44:S21-30. 2006..Cognitive interviews are pretest methods to explore the conceptual equivalence of survey items. Systematic approaches for using these methods are emerging... - The effectiveness of an advance notice letter on the recruitment of African Americans and Whites for a mailed patient satisfaction surveyANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 335, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
J Aging Health 16:124S-36S. 2004..Evaluate an advance notice letter for enhancing patient satisfaction survey response rates in African Americans and Whites... - Advancing health disparities research: can we afford to ignore measurement issues?Anita L Stewart
Center for Aging in Diverse Communities and Medical Effectiveness Research Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Med Care 41:1207-20. 2003..To compare groups, mean scores must reflect true scores and have minimal bias, assumptions that have not been tested for many self-report measures used in this research... 
Recruiting ethnically diverse general internal medicine patients for a telephone survey on physician-patient communicationANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
Center for Aging in Diverse Communities, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:438-43. 2005..Limited evidence exists on the effectiveness of recruitment methods among diverse populations...- Patients' perceptions of cultural factors affecting the quality of their medical encountersANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations and the Center on Aging in Diverse Communities, University of California San Francisco UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944
Health Expect 8:4-17. 2005..The aim of this study was to identify key domains of cultural competence from the perspective of ethnically and linguistically diverse patients... - Interpersonal processes of care survey: patient-reported measures for diverse groupsAnita L Stewart
Center for Aging in Diverse Communities, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
Health Serv Res 42:1235-56. 2007..The survey was administered in English and Spanish to adult general medicine patients, stratified by race/ethnicity and language (African Americans, English-speaking Latinos, Spanish-speaking Latinos, non-Latino whites) (N=1,664). Study.. - Identification of limited English proficient patients in clinical careLeah S Karliner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0320, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1555-60. 2008..Standardized means to identify patients likely to benefit from language assistance are needed...