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- Title
Using Qualitative Methods to Elicit Recall of a Critical Time Period.
- Authors
Hatch, Maureen; Von Ehrenstein, Ondine; Wolff, Mary; Meier, Karen; Geduld, Andrea; Einhorn, Felicia
- Abstract
The article provides information on a study that examined the influence of body development and peripubertal events and exposures on the occurrence of breast cancer in a multiethnic population using qualitative methods. Breast cancer, the paradigmatic women's health problem, also serves to illustrate certain methodologic challenges facing researchers in the field. Collecting data on prenatal experiences or on exposures in early life or young adulthood is usually accomplished through questionnaire-based studies. Cultural norms affecting risk factors or protective factors presumably contribute to the ethnic variation in incidence, and some familiarity with lifestyle differences is required to generate reasonable hypotheses about what may underlie the variation in rates. A recent study of infant feeding practices between Hispanic and Anglo-American women found that the conceptions surrounding bottle and breast-feeding were significantly different in the two groups. Subjects' conceptions of what constitutes physical activity have been found to vary by race/ethnicity and the tendency to respond in a socially desirable manner.
- Subjects
BREAST cancer; WOMEN'S health; BREASTFEEDING; ETHNICITY; MULTICULTURALISM; CANCER patients
- Publication
Journal of Women's Health, 1999, Vol 8, Issue 2, p269
- ISSN
1059-7115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jwh.1999.8.269