Cultural beliefs about health professionals, attributions for mistreatment, and continuity of cancer-related care.

摘要

This research examined attributions for health care mistreatment, related emotions, and the role of cultural beliefs about health care professionals as determinants of cancer-related continuity of care among Anglo and Latino women in Southern California. This research was guided by Betancourt's model of culture adapted for the study of health behavior (Betancourt & Flynn, 2008) and Weiner's (1996) attribution theory of motivation and emotion. As predicted, higher levels of negative cultural beliefs about health professionals resulted in lower intentions for continuity of care indirectly through mediating psychological perceptions of intentionality for mistreatment, controllability of its causes, and anger toward the health professional.