Community-based participatory design of a community health worker breast cancer training intervention for South Florida Latinx farmworkers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Community health worker (CHW)-led education is an important strategy to increase awareness and access to breast cancer screening in medically-underserved communities. This study aimed to develop a context-specific, culturally-appropriate training intervention for South Florida CHWs to educate Latinx immigrant farmworkers on breast cancer and early detection.

Methods

A community-based participatory research (CBPR) study, conducted 2017-2019, informed the design of a training curriculum for CHWs and educational dissemination materials. Twenty-two CHWs were trained and knowledge gains were measuring using a one-group pre-and post-test design. Triangulated evaluation consisted of field observations of CHW-client interactions, CHW self-reports, and rapid assessment surv

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7571710 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature