Patient navigation to improve breast cancer screening in Bosnian refugees and immigrants

Percac-Lima, S. and Milosavljevic, Bosiljka and Oo, S.A. and Marable, D. and Bond, B. (2012) Patient navigation to improve breast cancer screening in Bosnian refugees and immigrants. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 14 (4), pp. 727-730. ISSN 1557-1912.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-011-9539-5

Abstract

Refugee women have low breast cancer screening rates. This study highlights the culturally competent implementation and reports the outcomes of a breast cancer screening patient navigation program for refuge/immigrant women from Bosnia. Refugees/immigrant women from Bosnia age 40–79 were contacted by a Serbo-Croatian speaking patient navigator who addressed patient-reported barriers to breast cancer screening and, using individually tailored interventions, helped women obtain screening. The proportion of women up-to-date for mammography was compared at baseline and after 1-year using McNemar’s Chi-Square test. 91 Serbo-Croatian speaking women were eligible for mammography screening. At baseline, 44.0% of women had a mammogram within the previous year, with the proportion increasing to 67.0% after 1-year (P = 0.001). A culturally-tailored, language-concordant navigator program designed to overcome specific barriers to breast cancer screening can significantly improve mammography rates in refugees/immigrants.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
Research Centres and Institutes:	Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD)
Depositing User:	Bosiljka Milosavljevic
Date Deposited:	12 Mar 2021 13:40
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 18:07
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/42732

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