Supportive Care Needs in Asian Americans With Metastatic Cancer Study

Supportive Care Needs in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean Americans With Metastatic Cancer: Mixed Methods Protocol for the DAWN Study

Examines the unmet supportive care needs of Asian Americans with metastatic cancer

Cupertino CA – May 6, 2024 – The Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC), in collaboration with Jacqueline H J Kim, PhD, Lisa Bang, BS, Amy Ko, BS of the Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; Marjorie Kagawa Singer, PhD of the Department of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Becky Nguyen, MPH, MPA of Vietnamese American Cancer Foundation, Fountain Valley, CA; Sandy Chen Stokes, MSN of the Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care, Cupertino, CA; Qian Lu, PhD of the Department of Health Disparities Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; and Annette L Stanton, PhD of the Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, announces the publication of Supportive Care Needs in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean Americans With Metastatic Cancer: Mixed Methods Protocol for the DAWN Study1 in the JMIR Publications, JMIR Research Protocols on April 22, 2024 in Vol 13 (2024). This study is one of the first to examine the unmet supportive care needs of Asian Americans, specifically, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean Americans with metastatic cancer through interviewing patients or survivors, caregivers, and health care professionals for a more comprehensive understanding, using culturally and linguistically appropriate study materials and community-based participatory research principles.

The DAWN: Describing Asian American Well-Being and Needs in Cancer1 study was funded for two years, from June 2020 to June 2022, by the NIH-National Cancer Institute with supplement funding from the UCLA Institute of American Cultures and Asian American Studies Center.

The perspectives of patients or survivors, caregivers, community members, and health care professionals, will help advocate for this understudied population and inform the next steps to develop, test, and disseminate supportive care resources and interventions that are culturally relevant. Future findings related to this protocol will describe and understand the supportive care needs of Chinese, Vietnamese, and K patients or survivors with metastatic cancer and will help develop culturally appropriate psychosocial interventions that target known predictors of unmet supportive care needs in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean Americans with metastatic cancer.

1Kim J, Kagawa Singer M, Bang L, Ko A, Nguyen B, Chen Stokes S, Lu Q, Stanton A

Supportive Care Needs in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean Americans With Metastatic Cancer: Mixed Methods Protocol for the DAWN Study

JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e50032

URL: https://www.researchprotocols.org/2024/1/e50032

DOI: 10.2196/50032

About CACCC

Providing compassionate care, community service, education and outreach to the Chinese community and to the healthcare professionals who serve them, since 2005, the Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC) is comprised of 200 organizations and over 5,500 individuals, globally. CACCC is the first coalition devoted to addressing end-of-life care concerns of the Chinese community. Recognized internationally, CACCC provides education and support in advance care planning, hospice and palliative care, mindful self-care, loss and grief, Doctor Talk, Spiritual Forum, Heart to Heart® Café Facilitator training and more. For information, visit caccc-usa.org or email info@caccc-usa.org or call (866) 661-5687.

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