Implementation Barriers and Recommendations for a Multisite Community Health Worker Intervention in Palliative Care for African American Oncology Patients: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Palliative care remains underutilized by African American patients with advanced cancer. Community health workers (CHWs) may help improve palliative care outcomes among this patient population. Objectives: To explore barriers to success of a proposed CHW intervention and synthesize design and implementation recommendations to both optimize our intervention and inform others working to alleviate palliative care disparities. Design: Semi-structured qualitative interviews. Setting/Subjects: Key informants were health care professionals across clinical, leadership, and community health fields. Participants were recruited through purposive sampling from Baltimore, Maryland; Birmingham, Alabama; and Salisbury, Maryland. Me

SUBMITTER: Woods AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12372906 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature