Muslim Americans Reaching for Health and Building Alliances (MARHABA): Patient Navigation Intervention to Increase Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Muslim Women in New York City

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Conditions studied: Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer

In brief

Studies have reported Muslims in the US and NYC face numerous language and healthcare access barriers. This is a randomized randomized controlled design will be used to test the efficacy of a Patient Navigation (PN) intervention to increase participation in breast and/or cervical cancer screening among Muslim women age 40 - 75 years living in NYC. Study participants will be randomized to an Lay Health Workers (LHW) led small media intervention arm (SM-LHW) or a LHW-led patient navigation plus small media intervention arm (PN-LHW). A specific aim of the study is to develop, implement and evaluate the efficacy of a two-arm, randomized control trial designed to increase receipt of breast and/or cervical cancer screening among Muslim women aged 40 -75 years in New York City (NYC).

Key facts

Study ID: NCT03081507
Run by: NYU Langone Health
People needed: 432
Starts: 2017-03-01
Expected to finish: 2018-09-28
Last updated by the study team: 2018-12-05

Who can join

Age: 40 and older, up to 65. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

self-identify as Muslim
female
residence in a NYC borough
self-report as having received a mammogram more than two years ago and are age 40-74 years
self-report having received a Pap test more than three years ago and are age 40-65 years

You may not qualify if…

Report a past or current diagnosis of breast or cervical cancer
Report having had a hysterectomy
Report having had breast reconstructive surgery

Where it is running

New York University School of Medicine — New York, New York, United States

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