A Comparison of Two Native American Navigator Formats: Face-to-Face and Telephone
Open Access
- 1 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Cancer Control
- Vol. 12 (4_suppl), 28-33
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1073274805012004s05
Abstract
The study was designed to test the relative effectiveness of a Navigator intervention delivered face-to-face or by telephone to urban Native American women. The effectiveness of the intervention was evaluated using a design that included a pretest, random assignment to face-to-face or telephone group, and posttest. The Social Cognitive Theory- based intervention was a tailored education program developed to address individual risk factors for breast cancer. At posttest, self-reported mammograms in the past year increased from 29% to 41.3% in the telephone group and from 34.4% to 45.2% in the face-to-face group. There was no difference in change from pretest to posttest between the telephone and face-to-face groups. Navigators can be effective in increasing adherence to recommendations for screening mammography among urban American Indian women.Keywords
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