Advance Care Planning With Black Women with Breast Cancer: A Community Health Worker Model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the importance of advance care planning (ACP), a process that optimizes future medical treatment and end-of-life care, for at-risk populations, rates of patient-provider ACP conversations are extremely low among Black women with breast cancer. Community health workers (CHWs) are well-positioned to support patients in engaging in ACP conversations with their providers; yet research on integrating CHWs to promote ACP is scant. The current study examined multilevel facilitators and barriers to successful ACP conversations among Black women from the perspective of providers and CHWs who serve this community.

Methods

Providers and CHWs were recruited from an academic medical center in a large urban city. Retrospective qualitative data on barriers and facilitato

SUBMITTER: Tan MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10020146 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature