Adapting a program to inform African American and Hispanic American women about cancer clinical trials.
The dearth of evidence-based clinical trial education programs may contribute to the under-representation of African American and Hispanic American women in cancer research studies. This study used focus group-derived data from 80 women distributed among eight Spanish- and English-language focus groups. These data guided the researchers' adaptation and refinement of the National Cancer Institute's various clinical trials education programs into a program that was specifically focused on meeting the information needs of minority women and addressing the barriers to study participation that they perceived. A "sisterhood" theme was adopted and woven throughout the presentation.
Sadler
Georgia Robins
GR
Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA. gsadler@ucsd.edu
Gonzalez
Jenny
J
Mumman
Manpreet
M
Cullen
Lisa
L
Lahousse
Sheila F
SF
Malcarne
Vanessa
V
Conde
Viridiana
V
Riley
Natasha
N
D001741:Black or African American; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000628:therapy; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D054626:Consumer Health Information; D054521:Cultural Competency; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D054525:Minority Health; D018579:Patient Selection; D016387:Women's Health