ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2023
Breast Cancer Champions: a peer-to-peer education and mobile mammography program improving breast cancer screening rates for women of African heritage.
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- A health belief model-based community health education on mammography screening among reproductive-aged women in Ethiopia: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- A global scoping review of interventions to increase participation in screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer between 2016 and 2025.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Interventions to Improve Breast Screening Uptake for Black African Women in High Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Review
- Acceptability of breast cancer risk assessment for women aged 30-49: Views of women from six under-served groups.PloS one · 2026Article
- Community-based peer education as a tool for the prevention of breast cancer: a narrative review.Ecancermedicalscience · 2026Review
- A Population Survey on Barriers and Facilitators to Breast Cancer Screening Based on the Theoretical Domains Framework.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Barriers to breast cancer-related care among women in Pakistan: a systematic review.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Need for Culturally Competent and Responsive Cancer Education for African Immigrant Families and Youth Living in the United States.JMIR cancer · 2024Article
- Facilitators to cervical cancer screening in a minority, urban, underserved population.Gynecologic oncology reports · 2024Article
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introductionNationally, women of African heritage die at higher rates from breast cancer than women of other races or ethnicities. We developed Breast Cancer Champions (BCC) a peer-to-peer education program, which recruited 12 women and deployed them into the community in August 2020 during the height of the COVID pandemic. BCC aims to improve breast cancer screening rates for women of African heritage through peer-to-peer education, which has proven successful for addressing cancer-related health disparities.
methodsBCC community experts, or "Champions," are peer-to-peer educators that conduct awareness and screening events in their communities. Champion's education activities were tracked by bi-weekly check-in calls, which recorded the activity type, location, and the number of participants for each event. We used spatial and statistical analyses to determine the efficacy of the program at increasing screening rates for women within the area of Champion activity versus women outside of their activity area.
resultsOver 15 months, Champions conducted 245 in-person or online events to engage women in their community for screening. More women of African heritage were screened in areas Champions were active during the intervention compared to historical data comparing areas outside of the Champion activity in the prior 15 months (X
conclusionBCC successes could be attributed to pivoting to online community building when in-person events were restricted and enabling Champions to design and conduct their own events, which increased outreach possibilities. We demonstrate improved screening outcomes associated with an updated peer-to-peer education program.
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