Peer navigation improves diagnostic follow-up after breast cancer screening among Korean American women: results of a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test an intervention to increase adherence to diagnostic follow-up tests among Asian American women.

Methods

Korean American women who were referred for a diagnostic follow-up test (mainly diagnostic mammograms) and who had missed their follow-up appointment were eligible to participate in the study. Women from two clinics (n = 176) were randomly allocated to a usual care control arm or a peer navigator intervention arm. A 20-min telephone survey was administered to women in both study arms six months after they were identified to assess demographic and socio-economic characteristics and the primary outcome, self-reported completion of the recommended follow-up exam.

Results

Among women who completed the survey at six-month follow-up, self-reported comple

SUBMITTER: Maxwell AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2959157 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature