title: Cancer Worry Among Urban Dominican Women: A Qualitative Study.
abstract: Two thirds of respondents of a recent survey, primarily self-identified urban immigrant Dominican females, indicated that cancer was the health problem they worried about the most.
  
  
  
  The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain a greater understanding of the cancer worry experienced by Dominican women.
  
  
  
  Giorgi's descriptive existential phenomenological framework and methodology guided the study.
  
  
  
  Washington Heights/Inwood community, New York City, New York.
  
  
  
  Thirty-eight urban Dominican immigrant women were included in the study.
  
  
  
  Data were gathered using focus group interviews. All interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed verbatim from Spanish to English. The transcripts were analyzed using Giorgi's existential phenomenological data analysis process.
  
  
  
  Four essences unfolded: Cancer as Destiny, Faith, Influential Relationships, and Knowledge Acquisition.
  
  
  
  New knowledge was generated on the contextual factors that influence cancer worry among a major Hispanic subgroup. Implications for nursing research and practice are described.
authors.affiliation: 1 Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.|2 Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Alsacia L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Sepulveda-Pacsi
authors.affiliation: 1 Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Grenny
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hiraldo
authors.affiliation: 2 Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Keville
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Frederickson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D004293:Dominican Republic / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D009519:New York City; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: Dominican immigrants; Giorgi’s phenomenological framework and methodology; Hispanic; WICER Project; cancer worry; community participatory research; focus group interviews; qualitative study; transcultural health; urban setting