作者
Tung T Nguyen, Stephen J McPhee, Susan Stewart, Ginny Gildengorin, Lena Zhang, Ching Wong, Annette E Maxwell, Roshan Bastani, Vicky M Taylor, Moon S Chen
发表日期
2010/7
期刊
Journal of general internal medicine
卷号
25
页码范围
694-700
出版商
Springer-Verlag
简介
BACKGROUND
Chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis B-associated liver cancer is a major health disparity among Vietnamese Americans, who have a chronic hepatitis B prevalence rate of 7–14% and an incidence rate for liver cancer six times that of non-Latino whites.
OBJECTIVE
Describe factors associated with hepatitis B testing among Vietnamese Americans.
DESIGN
A population-based telephone survey conducted in 2007–2008.
PARTICIPANTS
Vietnamese Americans age 18–64 and living in the Northern California and Washington, DC areas (N = 1,704).
MAIN MEASURES
Variables included self-reports of sociodemographics, health care factors, and hepatitis B-related behaviors, knowledge, beliefs, and communication with others. The main …
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