229943 Delivering guidelines for evidence-based care to African American breast cancer survivors: The UMSOM-SNŽI research partnership

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 : 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Renee Royak-Schaler, PhD , School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Karen Jackson , Sisters NetworkŽ Incorporated, Houston, TX
Kim Nesbitt, MA , School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Lisa Gardner, MS , School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Susan Hadary , School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Stacy Garrett-Ray, MD , School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Cynthia Drogula, MD , School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Min Zhan, PhD , School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Colleen Pelser, PhD , Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
     
This presentation outlines benchmarks in the development, implementation, and evaluation of Strategies for Health After Breast Cancer: A Survivorship Guide for African American Women. This video educational program was produced by an established academic-community research partnership between the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the Sisters NetworkŽ Incorporated (SNŽI), a national African American (AA) breast cancer survivorship organization. Strategies for Health presents the patient, provider, and health care system factors associated with breast cancer disparities for African American women. It outlines the Institute of Medicine Guidelines for Survivorship Care in group discussions, individual testimonials, patient-physician vignettes, and educational messages which outline the evidence-based medical care and lifestyle changes necessary for breast cancer patients and survivors to improve their quality of life and reduce their risk of recurrence. Members of the SNŽI discuss their experiences with making plans of care, to meet the unique needs and lifestyles of African American breast cancer patients. Since 2005, the UMSOM-SNŽI Partnership has addressed breast cancer disparities and survivorship care for AA breast cancer survivors using community-based participatory research approaches. It is a partnership whose collaborative research projects: (1) have national funding, impact, and sustainability; (2) are multidisciplinary; (3) disseminate evidence-based guidelines, appropriate for utilization in clinical and community settings; and (4) demonstrate the capacity for effective and sustained collaboration. Specific roles and responsibilities of the UMSOM-SNŽI partners in the production and evaluation process of Strategies for Health will illustrate the community-based participatory research process.

Learning Areas:
Clinical medicine applied in public health
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Provision of health care to the public
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe how the constructs of social epidemiology and community-based participatory research are applied in establishing academic-community research partnerships. 2. Describe the relevance of using mixed qualitative and quantitative research designs to address mortality disparities for African American women, and deliver guidelines for evidence-based survivorship care. 3.Explain education and training requirements of participants in academic-community research partnerships. 4. Apply social and behavioral theory and models in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of CBPR educational interventions.

Keywords: Breast Cancer, Community-Based Partnership

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I conduct academic-community partnership research which addresses breast cancer disparities, and served as Principal Investigator of the project described in this abstract.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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