Quality of life outcomes from a randomized controlled trial of patient navigation in Latina breast cancer survivors

• Published in: Cancer medicine (Malden, MA) Vol. 9; no. 21; pp. 7837 - 7848
• Main Authors: Ramirez, Amelie G., Muñoz, Edgar, Long Parma, Dorothy, Perez, Arely, Santillan, Alfredo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2020; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; behavioral science; Bilingualism; Breast cancer; Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis; Breast Neoplasms - ethnology; Breast Neoplasms - therapy; Cancer Survivors; Cancer therapies; Chemotherapy; Clinical Cancer Research; Clinical trials; Culturally Competent Care - ethnology; Female; Health care access; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice - ethnology; Health Promotion; Hispanic or Latino; Humans; Intervention; Medical research; Medical screening; Middle Aged; Nurses; Original Research; Patient Education as Topic; Patient Navigation; Patients; Population; Quality of Life; Survival; Texas - epidemiology; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; Texas; United States > US; breast cancer; clinical trials; behavioral science; quality of life

Introduction Breast cancer survivorship is a life‐long process involving challenges to health‐care communities and individuals, especially Latinas. Patient Navigation has shown some success in meeting these challenges. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of an enhanced Patient Navig...