Is CIS Reaching CT Native Americans? Understanding Cancer Information Seeking

描述(由申请者提供)：描述：在美国所有种族或民族中，美洲原住民的癌症存活率最低。这项研究将集中于了解康涅狄格州的美洲原住民中谁需要、寻找和获得与癌症有关的信息。这项研究的结果将有助于癌症信息服务改善对目前未充分利用1-800-4-癌症电话服务和实时帮助网站(https://cissecure.nci.nih.gov/livehelp/welcome.asp)，的美洲原住民的服务，并提供有关卫生保健提供者对癌症信息服务的认识和使用的基线数据。此外，我们将调查这一高危人群的成员如何在家庭及其社区内分享信息。最后，这项探索性研究将考察这些美洲原住民社区的癌症信息需求和行为如何提供关于哪些干预措施将在独联体网络中开发、测试和传播的形成性数据。在我们与新英格兰独联体的合作努力中，这项拟议的研究中所学到的信息将被用来开发一门关于康涅狄格州美洲原住民癌症信息传播的文化合适的课程。将开发教育材料和相关的研究方法，以便在康涅狄格州、东北部和整个美国的其他土著城市和部落社区中复制和验证它们的使用。作为这项研究的结果，所获得的信息将被用于开发R01赠款申请，以测试开发的课程与更大部分的东北美洲原住民人口。与公共卫生相关：这项拟议的项目将提高癌症倡导者、研究人员、卫生专业人员和政策制定者的能力，以了解和帮助康涅狄格州美洲原住民的癌症教育需求。这个以社区为基础的研究项目还应该增加康涅狄格州印第安人对独联体服务的利用。结果将为全国公共健康教育工作者重新定位和评估教育材料和相关方法提供基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Description: Native Americans have the poorest cancer survival rates of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. This study will focus on understanding who among Connecticut's Native Americans needs, seeks, and obtains cancer-related information. The results of this study will help the Cancer Information Service (CIS) to improve its service to Native Americans who currently underutilize the 1-800-4-CANCER phone service and Live Help web site (https://cissecure.nci.nih.gov/livehelp/welcome.asp), and to provide baseline data about health care providers' awareness and use of CIS. Additionally, we will investigate how members of this at- risk population share information within families and their communities. Finally, this exploratory study will examine how cancer information needs and behaviors of these Native American communities may provide formative data on which interventions will be developed, tested, and disseminated within the CIS network. In our collaborative efforts with CIS of New England, the information learned in this proposed study will be used to develop a culturally appropriate curriculum on cancer information dissemination among Native Americans in Connecticut. Education materials and associated research methods will be developed so they can be replicated and validated for use among other Native urban and tribal communities in Connecticut, the Northeast, and throughout the United States. The information learned as a result of this study will be used in the development of an R01 grant application to test the developed curriculum with a larger segment of the Northeastern Native American population. Relevance to Public Health: This proposed project will enhance the abilities of cancer advocates, researchers, health professionals, and policy makers alike to understand and assist the cancer education needs of Connecticut Native Americans. This community based research project should also increase utilization of CIS services by Connecticut Native Americans. Results will provide the foundation for Public Health educators throughout the nation to relocate and evaluate education materials and associated methodologies.