Stigma towards functional disability and anxiety among patients with cancer: The moderating role of physicians' behaviors.

Objective: To explore the moderating role of physicians' behaviors in medical encounters with cancer patients in the association between physicians' public stigma towards functional disability and post-meeting patient anxiety.

Methods: A three time-point prospective nested study was conducted between November 2019 and July 2022 in two medical centres. Before the medical encounters, 32 physicians completed the Disability Attitudes in Health Care Scale, and 150 adult cancer patients completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), pre and post medical encounters.

Physicians' Stigma Towards Ethnicity of Patients with Cancer and Its Effects on the Health Outcomes: The Moderating Effect of Ethnic Dissimilar Medical Encounters.

Background: This study aimed to examine the moderating effect of ethnic patient-physician similarity versus dissimilarity on the relationship between physicians' stigma towards ethnicity and physicians' communication behaviors during medical encounters and patients' post-meeting anxiety.

Methods: A prospective nested study design with 146 encounters, including 146 patients with cancer and 32 oncology/surgery physicians, was conducted between November 2019 and July 2022 in two medical centers. Before the medical encounters, physicians were asked to complete sociodemographic, professional and the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaires (PEDQ-CV).

ACCESS: an empirically-based framework developed by the International Nursing CASCADE Consortium to address genomic disparities through the nursing workforce.

Efforts are needed across disciplines to close disparities in genomic healthcare. Nurses are the most numerous trained healthcare professionals worldwide and can play a key role in addressing disparities across the continuum of care. ACCESS is an empirically-based theoretical framework to guide clinical practice in order to ameliorate genomic disparities.

Medical encounters with patients diagnosed with cancer: The association between physicians' behavior and perceived patient centered care and anxiety.

Purpose: To evaluate the association between physicians' behavior and cancer patients' perceived patient-centered care (PCC) and anxiety following medical encounters.

Methods: A prospective study design with 100 encounters, including 100 cancer patients and 22 oncology/surgery physicians, was performed between November 2019 and July 2021. Before the medical encounters, patients were asked to complete the validated State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and physicians and patients completed sociodemographic and clinical data.

Privacy and utility of genetic testing in families with hereditary cancer syndromes living in three countries: the international cascade genetic screening experience.

Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and Lynch syndrome are associated with increased lifetime risk for common cancers. Offering cascade genetic testing to cancer-free relatives of individuals with HBOC or LS is a public health intervention for cancer prevention. Yet, little is known about the utility and value of information gained from cascade testing.