Engaging Diverse Underserved Communities to Bridge the Mammography Divide

Kansas Board of Regents

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer Screening

Treatments: Other: MI2 intervention arm; Other: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01267110

12371

Details and patient eligibility

About

Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the U.S.1 in spite of being preventable, easily detectable, and curable.2-11 Breast screening continues to be underutilized by the general population and especially by traditionally underserved minority populations. Two of the least screened minority groups are American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) and Latinas. American Indian/Alaska Native women have the poorest recorded 5-year cancer survival rates of any ethnic group and the lowest (or near-lowest) screening rates for major cancers.12 Furthermore, breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer mortality among Latina women.13 While breast cancer screening rates have increased nationally, there has been an increase in the gap in breast cancer screening utilization between individuals from minority versus majority racial/ethnic groups.

Full description

If you decide to participate in the program, your participation will last 4 months. You will complete the Healthy Living Kansas-Breast Health survey by computer. The survey will take about 20 minutes to complete. You will be randomly assigned (like flipping a coin) to one of two groups. The groups will receive different breast health information. After completing the survey, you agree to be contacted by telephone in 4 months to answer questions. You will be asked for your name, home address, and phone number.

You will be given information about breast cancer and mammography. You may or may not benefit from the information provided. Care will be taken to safeguard the information you provide but under rare circumstances confidentiality breaches may occur.

Enrollment: 261 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Latina or AI/AN woman residing in one of participating communities
• Aged ≥40 years of age
• Not up to date on mammography screening
• Home address & access to a working telephone
• Responded to 120-day post randomization follow-up call

Exclusion criteria

• Receipt of mammogram within past year
• Acute medical illness, history of breast cancer, 1st
• Cognitive impairment or inappropriate affect or behavior
• Another household member enrolled in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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261 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: MI2 intervention arm

Control

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Control