374
Participants
Start Date
October 31, 2006
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2010
Study Completion Date
January 31, 2011
Patient Assistance
Patients will be surveyed to assess their knowledge about cancer \& its treatment, experience with \& access to health care system, trust, depression, social support \& self-efficacy. A Brief Screening Needs Assessment will be done to ascertain practical, informational or psychosocial needs; based on their responses, an individualized action plan to connect with patient assistance programs will be created for the intervention group. We will ask intervention patients if they connected with any programs in their action plan. For those who didn't connect, we will give their name to an outreach worker. The outreach worker will call patients and identify reasons for not contacting the assistance programs.
Information only
Control patients will be sent a pamphlet about breast cancer \& its treatment. We will call all patients 2 weeks later and ask if they received the packet. If they didn't, we will send the packet again.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Metropolitan Hospital, New York
Columbia University, New York
Harlem Hospital Center, New York
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Montefiore Medical Center, New York
Elmhurst Hospital Center, Queens
Queens Hospital Center, Queens
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NIH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
OTHER