Developing and Evaluating Culturally Relevant Interventions to Improve Breast Cancer Screening

Description

The goal of this study is to evaluate the relative benefits of an intervention to promote breast cancer screening among women in the White Mountain Apache (WMA) community. Women will be randomized to receive CARE, a culturally tailored mammography education module, or CARE+COACH, which is the CARE education module plus access to an Apache paraprofessional women's health coach (i.e., patient navigator). The CARE intervention was developed through a community-based participatory research process. The primary outcome is mammography uptake within 2 months of a referral.

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The goal of this study is to evaluate the relative benefits of an intervention to promote breast cancer screening among women in the White Mountain Apache (WMA) community. Women will be randomized to receive CARE, a culturally tailored mammography education module, or CARE+COACH, which is the CARE education module plus access to an Apache paraprofessional women's health coach (i.e., patient navigator). The CARE intervention was developed through a community-based participatory research process. The primary outcome is mammography uptake within 2 months of a referral.

Developing and Evaluating Scalable and Culturally Relevant Interventions to Improve Breast Cancer Screening Among White Mountain Apache Women

Developing and Evaluating Culturally Relevant Interventions to Improve Breast Cancer Screening

Condition
Breast Cancer
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Whiteriver

Center for Indigenous Health, Whiteriver, Arizona, United States, 85941

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Referral for screening mammography from a Whiteriver Indian Health Service provider
  • * Self-identify as American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN)
  • * Female
  • * Live on within 60 miles of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation
  • * Women who have received a mammogram within the prior 12 months
  • * Women with a personal history of breast cancer
  • * Unable to participate in full intervention or evaluation due to an anticipated event (e.g., planned move)
  • * Unwilling to be randomized

Ages Eligible for Study

to

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,

Allison Barlow, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Study Record Dates

2025-12