title: Empowering Promotores de Salud as partners in cancer education and research in rural southwest Kansas.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe community-based participatory processes used to develop promotore training on cancer research, and to assess the feasibility of training promotores from rural communities to disseminate cancer research information.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective, cohort design.
  
  
  METHODS
  Rural communities in the state of Kansas.
  
  
  METHODS
  34 Spanish-speaking promotores attended an information session; 27 enrolled and 22 completed training.
  
  
  METHODS
  With input from a community advisory board, the authors developed a leadership and cancer curriculum and trained Spanish-speaking promotores to disseminate information on cancer research. Promotores completed pretraining and post-training surveys in Spanish to assess demographic characteristics and changes in knowledge of cancer, cancer treatment and cancer research studies, and intent to participate in cancer research.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cancer knowledge, awareness of cancer clinical trials, interest in participating in cancer clinical research studies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared to pretraining, after training, promotores were more likely to correctly define cancer, identify biopsies, describe cancer stages, and report ever having heard of cancer research studies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Completion rates of the training and willingness to participate in cancer research were high, supporting the feasibility of training promotores to deliver community-based education to promote cancer research participation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nursing professionals and researchers can collaborate with promotores to disseminate cancer education and research among underserved rural Latino communities in Kansas and elsewhere. Members of these communities appear willing and interested in improving their knowledge of cancer and cancer clinical trials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC).
authors.forename: Ana Paula
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Cupertino
authors.affiliation: KUMC.
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saint-Elin
authors.affiliation: JUNTOS.
authors.forename: Johana Bravo
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: de Los Rios
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, KUMC.
authors.forename: Kimberly K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Engelman
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, KUMC.
authors.forename: K Allen
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Greiner
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, KUMC.
authors.forename: Edward F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Ellerbeck
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: Anna M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Nápoles
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000193:education*; D003150:Community Health Workers / Q000193:education*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007615:Kansas; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012424:Rural Population; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Latinos; cancer research; community-based participatory research; immigrants; lay health workers; promotores de salud