A Community-Engaged Process for Adapting a Proven Community Health Worker Model to Integrate Precision Cancer Care Delivery for Low-income Latinx Adults With Cancer

• Published in: Health promotion practice Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 491 - 501
• Main Authors: Wood, Emily H., Leach, Maria, Villicana, Gerardo, Goldman Rosas, Lisa, Duron, Ysabel, O’Brien, Dale G., Koontz, Zachary, Patel, Manali I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.05.2023; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Advance directives; Cancer; Caregivers; Community; Community Health Workers; Community Participation; Delivery of Health Care; Grounded theory; Health care; Hispanic or Latino; Humans; Integrated care; Interagency collaboration; Intervention; Interviews; Low income groups; Neoplasms - therapy; Oncology; Precision medicine; Primary care; Stakeholder Participation; goals of care; precision cancer care; community care; underserved; community health worker; Community engagement; Latinx; adaptation; cancer care delivery; oncology; personalized medicine; lay health worker; REAIM framework; advance care planning; CBPR

Introduction Disparities in precision cancer care delivery among low-income Latinx adults are well described. In prior work, we developed a community health worker-led goals of care and cancer symptom assessment intervention. The objective of this study was to adapt this intervention for a community...