Educational Module and Decision Counseling Program in Increasing Mammography Screening Rates in Formerly Homeless Women With Serious Mental Illness

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University23 enrolled

Overview

This pilot clinical trial studies how well an educational module and decision counseling program works in increasing mammography screening rates in formerly homeless women with serious mental illness. An educational module and decision counseling program may be an effective tool and have the potential to help with early detection and treatment.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Increase mammography screening rates in women age 40 and over with experiences of homelessness and serious mental illness (SMI). II. Increase knowledge, decease psychological distress, and advance decision stage and intention to get a mammogram in study participants.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

SCREENING

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Breast - Female

Interventions

Educational InterventionOTHER

Receive a research team member-led breast cancer and mammogram educational module

CounselingOTHER

Undergo a web-based decision counseling session

Informational InterventionOTHER

Receive a "next steps" document

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 40 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 30 formerly homeless women with a diagnosis of a serious mental illness in the Pathways to Housing or Project HOME supportive housing programs * Only women that have never received a mammogram are eligible to participate (self-report) * Participants must be willing to participate in all aspects of research Exclusion Criteria: * Participants cannot be decisionally impaired, actively psychotic, or have unstable mental illness that prevents participation in the decisional counseling session * Women who have had a mammogram will be excluded from the study

Locations (1)

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Change in decisional conflict score assessed by pre- and post-intervention survey

Will estimate the mean pre/post change, along with a 95% confidence interval, and will test this change via a paired t-test. Will use linear regression to assess what factors (including socio-demographics and decision counseling score) are associated with the change.

Time frame: Baseline up to 1 month

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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