WE-CARE Community Health Forums to Increase Breast Cancer Screening and Clinical Trial Participation for Rural and Low Income Women
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Educational Intervention, Patient Navigation, Supportive Care.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Breast Carcinoma. Basic parameters: 50 years — 74 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
A Community Engagement Approach to Increasing Breast Cancer Screening and Clinical Trial Participation in Low Income and Rural Populations ('WE-CARE')
Overview
This clinical trial tests how well the Women's Engagement for Cancer Awareness, Resources, and Education (WE-CARE) community health forums work to increase breast cancer screening and clinical trial participation for rural and low income women. Despite advances in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in the past decade, rural-dwelling and underserved women, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color continue to experience low rates of breast cancer screening. Since the survival rate for breast cancer is largely dependent on stage at which it is diagnosed, later stage breast cancer is correlated to a poorer prognosis and higher mortality rate. The WE-CARE community health forms address structural barriers through culturally tailored educational sessions on breast cancer risk, screening and clinical trials, survivor storytelling to humanize cancer and research and patient navigation to facilitate mammogram screening and address barriers. The WE-CARE community health forums may be an effective way to increase breast cancer screening and clinical trial participation for rural and low income women.
Interventions
- Other Educational Intervention
Attend education sessions at WE-CARE forum - Behavioral Patient Navigation
Receive navigation support - Other Supportive Care
Attend storytelling sessions at WE-CARE forum
Primary outcome measures
- Recruitment yield [Time frame: At time of forum]
- Exposure reach (community level reach) [Time frame: At time of forum]
- Retention [Time frame: From baseline to 3 months]
- Perceived participant satisfaction [Time frame: Immediately following completion of forum]
- Perceived barriers to engagement and community impact [Time frame: Immediately following completion of forum]
- Perceived facilitators to engagement and community impact [Time frame: Immediately following completion of forum]
- Perceived acceptability - AIM [Time frame: Immediately following completion of forum]
- Perceived appropriateness - IAM [Time frame: Immediately following completion of forum]
- Perceived feasibility - FIM [Time frame: Immediately following completion of forum]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Female
- Be between the ages of 50 and 74 years
- Have no prior history of breast cancer screening (i.e., who have either never received a mammogram or have not had one in the past five years)
- Reside in a rural community in Wisconsin or belong to low income (self-reported)
- Be able to speak and understand English or Spanish
- Be willing and able to provide informed consent
Exclusion criteria
- Women who have received a mammogram within the past five years
- Have a current or prior diagnosis of breast cancer
- Are currently undergoing treatment for any active malignancy
- Have cognitive or psychiatric impairments that, in the judgment of the study team, would preclude meaningful participation
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Mayo Clinic Health System-Eau Claire Clinic — Eau Claire
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07644702 · 25-008934