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| Project Leader: | Sergio Lemus slemus@tamu.edu Anthropology |
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Meeting Times:
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MF 1:00PM-1:50 |
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Team Size:
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5
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| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Co-authorship opportunities on publication, on campus presentations, community outreach, research skills competence
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Team Needs:
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Nvivo Qualitative Research, Grant Writing, Interviewing skills, transcription experience in Spanish/English. No need to have all skills to participate. |
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Description:
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The purpose of this study is to draw a more in-depth understanding of the coping strategies used by Latinos/as as they and their families experience the disease. The study also mobilizes the term Latino Hybrid Collectif as an analytical framework to investigate the paradox we see in the case between Latinos/as and cancer in the United States. The present study asks the following overarching guiding questions: a) how does immigration status affects or restricts access to health care programs from providers, and, if there is not access, what cultural strategies are utilized instead? b) are the coping strategies different for men as compared to women affected with cancer, and c) what role does religion or spirituality play in making or allowing patients and their families to live with and beyond the disease? |