163979 Case for Including Patient Perspectives in Policy-revelant Health Access Research: Lessons from the Haitian Breast Cancer Study of Mamography Access and Adherence

Saturday, November 3, 2007: 10:45 AM

Mathilda B. Ruwe, MD, MPH, PhD , California State University, Fresno, Central Valley Health Policy Institute, Fresno, CA
Traditional approaches of analyzing patient perspectives qualitatively without linking them to policy-relevant outcomes fail to establish the role of socio-cultural factors in health policy interventions; while researcher-derived quantitative measures may not be sensitive enough. A study entitled "Cultural concepts of cancer mammography access and adherence" is used to demonstrate an approach for combining patient-derived qualitative data and policy-relevant quantitative data.

Learning Objectives:
Upon course completing participants will: 1)Appreciate the value in combining qualitative and quantitative measures 2)Understand how to develop valid, empirically active quantitative variables from qualitative data. 3)Describe how to integrate qualitative and quantitative measures 4)Understand how to develop policy-relevant dependent variables

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