Breast Health in Chinese American Women

Georgetown University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: watch DVD; Behavioral: watch DVD and small group discussion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01292200

2010-185

R01CA142941-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This four-and-a-half-year study will test the efficacy of viewing a theoretically based and culturally sensitive video followed by group discussion (vs. single viewing) in increasing mammography use. The results of this study will lead cancer control efforts to effectively decrease breast cancer screening disparities experienced by Chinese-America women.

Full description

We will conduct a 4.5-year community-based RCT to study the impact of intervention approaches (small-group video discussion vs. single video mode) on mammography used among Chinese immigrant women. The small-group video discussion will be led by trained Chinese community health educators and trained bilingual research staff using a standardized structured protocol at all sites. In the single video mode, we will mail the intervention materials to women to view and/or read at home. We will recruit 974 Chinese women through our strong and well-established Chinese community partnerships in the metropolitan areas of Washington, DC (Lead PI: Dr. Judy Wang, Georgetown University-GU), New York (Site PI: Dr. Grace Ma at Temple University), and southern California (Site PI: Dr. Annette Maxwell, University of California, Los Angeles-UCLA). Participants' eligibility are listed under "eligibility criteria". We will not enroll US-born Chinese women as they are least likely to face cultural and language barriers to mammography and less likely to engage in our small-group discussion, which will be conducted in Chinese languages. Also, we will not enroll short-term visitors as our study involves four interviews over a 2-year period.

Enrollment: 954 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 42+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. First generation Chinese women
2. Aged 42 and older
3. Have not had a mammogram in the past 2 years
4. Have never had breast cancer
5. Lived in the metropolitan DC, southern CA, and NY suburb; AND
6. Have no mammography screening scheduled in the next 6 month from time of enrollment

Exclusion criteria

1. Short-term visitors
2. US-born Chinese Americans

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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954 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

watch DVD and small group discussion

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will watch the video in a group and discuss the video.

Treatment:

Behavioral: watch DVD and small group discussion

watch video only

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

watch a 22 minutes long video at home by herself.

Treatment:

Behavioral: watch DVD