The Role of Health Literacy in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients’ Surgical Journey: A Qualitative Study
Cancer providers and patients highlighted the role of health literacy in all phases of the surgical journey, particularly in creating barriers to understanding key components of cancer care. Interventions to address these barriers will be critical to improve care for low health literacy patients.
Authors
- Ivan Herbey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6191-5624)
- Yu-Mei M. Schoenberger
- Nataliya V. Ivankova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5742-7035)
- Maria Pisu
- Wendelyn M. Oslock (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2169-5625)
- Bayley A. Jones (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8863-4029)
- Gianina Crystal Hernandez-Marquez
- Daniel Chu
- Burkely P. Smith
- Nathan English
- Luke Mondia
Institutions
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Birmingham VA Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Surgery Open
- Published
- 2026-01-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/as9.0000000000000643
- Primary Topic
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00