The KinFact intervention - a randomized controlled trial to increase family communication about cancer history.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knowing family history is important for understanding cancer risk, yet communication within families is suboptimal. Providing strategies to enhance communication may be useful.

Methods

Four hundred ninety women were recruited from urban, safety-net, hospital-based primary care women's health clinics. Participants were randomized to receive the KinFact intervention or the control handout on lowering risks for breast/colon cancer and screening recommendations. Cancer family history was reviewed with all participants. The 20-minute KinFact intervention, based in communication and behavior theory, included reviewing individualized breast/colon cancer risks and an interactive presentation about cancer and communication. Study outcomes included whether participants repo

SUBMITTER: Bodurtha JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4195404 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature