Increasing Adherence to Follow-up of Breast Abnormalities in Low-Income Korean American Women

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Prospective intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00742755

DAMD17-03-1-067

Details and patient eligibility

About

Develop and evaluate a peer navigator intervention to assist Korean women with a potential breast abnormality, who have missed their first follow-up appointment, to complete all diagnostic follow-up tests.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to design an intervention to assist Korean American women who have been identified with a potential breast abnormality through the Breast Cancer Early Detection Program and who have missed their first follow-up appointment (at risk women). Intervention activities will include reminder phone calls or home visits by a trained peer navigator to explain the importance of follow-up procedures, emotional support, help with transportation to follow-up appointments, translations, organizing care for children or grandchildren during medical appointments, and other assistance to overcome barriers to follow-up identified during the initial phase of the study. The investigators will collect extensive process measures including number and type of intervention activities requested and delivered in order to estimate the feasibility for institutionalizing intervention activities. The investigators will conduct chart reviews and a follow-up survey to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention in increasing adherence to follow-up procedures.

Enrollment: 160 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being: a Korean American woman
• Screened through the Breast Cancer Early Detection Program
• With a potential breast abnormality
• Having missed a first diagnostic follow-up appointment

Exclusion criteria

• Not a Korean American woman
• Not screened through the Breast Cancer Early Detection Program
• No potential breast abnormality
• Not having missed a first diagnostic follow-up appointment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 1 patient group

Prospective Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Peer navigator intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Prospective intervention