An Ecologic Model for Identifying Coping Resources to Manage Psychological Distress Among Spanish-Speaking Latina Women Newly Diagnosed With Breast Cancer.
Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, Anita L Stewart, Carmen Ortíz and 1 others
PMID 36067240WHAT IT FOUND
Newly diagnosed Spanish-speaking Latina women had less health distress when confident managing breast cancer treatment, confident in coping, and feeling neighborhood cohesion.
Among coping resources, anxiety was lower only with confidence managing treatment. Support-service engagement was not associated with distress or anxiety.
Key findings
01Greater confidence managing breast cancer treatment and greater coping confidence were associated with less health distress.
02Perceived neighborhood cohesion was associated with less health distress.
03Confidence managing breast cancer treatment was associated with less anxiety, while organization/community level resources, including support-service engagement, were not associated with health distress or anxiety.
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What it does not show
The sample was not representative of all Latina women with breast cancer because it was mainly Spanish-speaking Mexican immigrants. The data are cross-sectional, so the associations cannot show that coping resources reduce distress. The ecological framework was applied after the parent study was designed, and not all levels or variables from the original framework were measured.
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The supplied publication types list NIH intramural and non-U.S. government research support. No explicit author conflict-of-interest declaration is included in the supplied text.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that improving confidence, coping, or neighborhood cohesion will reduce distress. This is a cross-sectional analysis, so causality cannot be determined.