Table 2.

Exploring cultural beliefs in discussing badnews*

What do you think might be going on? What do you call the problem What do you think has caused the problem? What do you think will happen with this illness? What do you fear most with this illness? If we needed to discuss a serious medical issue, how would you and yourfamily want to handle it? Would you [addressing patient] want to handle the information and decisionmaking, or should that be done by someone else in the family?

^*Modified from Kleinman et al²⁹