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Leveraging Technology-Based Interventions to Identify Barriers to Breast Health Awareness
Cassidi Goll presents “Leveraging Technology-Based Interventions to Identify Barriers to Breast Health Awareness and Engagement in Preventative Practices Among Diverse Communities ” for the Holman22 virtual poster presentation.
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hello everyone my name is cassidy gall and i serve as the research operations and program manager in the department of surgeries technology-enabled clinical improvement center techie center for short i will be presenting our work titled leveraging technology-based interventions to identify barriers to breast health awareness and engagement in preventative practices among diverse communities this community-based participatory research project was carried out in collaboration with the techie center directed by dr carla pugh with dr elise adams and pamela ratliff with the stanford cancer institute and with rena bello and colleen carvalho with bay area cancer connections located in palo alto so according to a study published in january 2022 black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer in part due to delayed diagnosis and inadequate treatment focusing on black women this research seeks to identify barriers to breast health awareness and assess acceptance of a technology-based intervention to promote engagement in early detection this bi-directional community engagement research project used cross-sectional survey methods to assess breast health knowledge and perceptions as well as one's relationship to the use of evidence-based preventative breast health services such as a mammogram or clinical breast exam our study population included a diverse cohort of women attending community breast health events in the bay area put on by stanford cancer institutes breast cancer and african americans as well as bay area cancer connections pictured here is a screen capture of an educational video featuring a digital breast exam simulator that we shared with community groups before disseminating our survey instrument so the results of this study indicate that women not trained on how to perform breast self exams are more likely to have never received a mammogram 11 versus 3 percent only receive a mammogram for a suspected mass 26 percent versus ten percent and receive zero annual clinical breast exams fifty percent versus eleven percent and this information is based on the national breast cancer screening guidelines for women where we deemed women aged 40 and up to be eligible for mammography screening so that was the age group that was included in this analysis you see here our study also shows that black women are less likely to be trained on how to do breast self-exam compared to that of non-black women 92 versus 84 so among this diverse group of women from community settings this research demonstrates that women who had not been trained in breast self exams were less likely to receive early detection services regarding breast health our research team has determined that additional research evidence is needed to understand the links between breast self-exam training and the use of evidence-based life-saving preventative services to inform public policy so looking ahead we would like to build on this work and leverage the resulting findings to build community capacity to develop effective interventions to improve preventive care particularly among black women in addition we will return results to the community through presentations at annual cancer conferences hosted by stanford cancer institute and bay area cancer connections in addition to partner related events in the community we deeply appreciate the opportunity to share our work with all of you here today and we invite you to share any questions or comments that you may have by using the contact information at the bottom of our poster a very special thank you to our community partners and to the spectrum community engagement pilots grants program for funding this important work a very happy holman to all and thanks again you
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