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.
Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA. gsadler@ucsd.edu
Georgia Robins
GR
Sadler
Jenny
J
Gonzalez
Manpreet
M
Mumman
Lisa
L
Cullen
Sheila F
SF
Lahousse
Vanessa
V
Malcarne
Viridiana
V
Conde
Natasha
N
Riley
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