Strength and courage: the development of a native American cancer survivor archive

J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2010 Aug;21(3):815-22. doi: 10.1353/hpu.0.0329.

Abstract

This report describes the first Native American cancer survivor archive and lessons learned from its development. Unusual not only in its holdings, this archive project is distinct as it is led by researchers and community health advocates without professional archival development training.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Psychological
  • Archives*
  • Community-Based Participatory Research
  • Connecticut
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Humans
  • Indians, North American / psychology*
  • Narration
  • Neoplasms / ethnology*
  • Neoplasms / psychology
  • Qualitative Research
  • Survivors / psychology*
  • Tape Recording