ArticleJournal of cancer survivorship : research and practice2021
Use of patient-reported controls for secular trends to study disparities in cancer-related job loss.
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- Prognostic factors for return to work in breast cancer survivors.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Work accommodations described by a racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of women undergoing treatment for breast cancer.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Trends in exercise initiation and participation among employed breast cancer survivors undergoing curative treatment.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2025Article
- Measuring Self-Efficacy to Request Cancer-Related Work Accommodations: Development and Validation of a Brief Survey Instrument.Psycho-oncology · 2024Article
- Vulnerabilities in workplace features for essential workers with breast cancer: Implications for the COVID-19 pandemic.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2022Article
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purposeRacial/ethnic minorities experience greater job loss than whites during periods of economic downturn and after a cancer diagnosis. Therefore, race/ethnicity-matched controls are needed to distinguish the impact of illness on job loss from secular trends
methodsSurveys were administered during and 4-month post-completion of breast cancer treatment. Patients were pre-diagnosis employed women aged 18-64, undergoing treatment for stage I-III breast cancers, who spoke English, Chinese, Korean, or Spanish. Each patient was asked to: (1) nominate peers who were surveyed in a corresponding timeframe (active controls), (2) report a friend's work status at baseline and follow-up (passive controls). Both types of controls were healthy, employed at baseline, and shared the nominating patient's race/ethnicity, language, and age. The primary outcome was number of evaluable patient-control pairs by type of control. A patient-control pair was evaluable if work status at follow-up was reported for both individuals.
resultsOf the 180 patients, 25% had evaluable active controls (45 patient-control pairs); 84% had evaluable passive controls (151 patient-control pairs). Although patients with controls differed from those without controls under each strategy, there was no difference in the percentage of controls who were working at follow-up (96% of active controls; 91% of passive controls). However, only 65% of patients were working at follow-up.
conclusionsThe majority of patients had evaluable passive controls. There was no significant difference in outcome between controls ascertained through either method IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS: Passive controls are a low-cost, higher-yield option to control for secular trends in racially/ethnically diverse samples.
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