1. A Culturally Adapted Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Intervention Among Muslim Women in New York City: Results from the MARHABA Trial.
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Wyatt, Laura, Chebli, Perla, Patel, Shilpa, Alam, Gulnahar, Naeem, Areeg, Raveis, Victoria, Ravenell, Joseph, Kwon, Simona, Islam, Nadia, and Maxwell, Annette
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Asian Americans ,Breast cancer screening ,Cervical cancer screening ,Community-based participatory research ,Muslim Americans ,Humans ,Female ,Early Detection of Cancer ,Uterine Cervical Neoplasms ,Islam ,New York City ,Health Education ,Mass Screening ,Breast Neoplasms - Abstract
We examine the efficacy of MARHABA, a social marketing-informed, lay health worker (LHW) intervention with patient navigation (PN), to increase breast and cervical cancer screening among Muslim women in New York City. Muslim women were eligible if they were overdue for a mammogram and/or a Pap test. All participants attended a 1-h educational seminar with distribution of small media health education materials, after which randomization occurred. Women in the Education + Media + PN arm received planned follow-ups from a LHW. Women in the Education + Media arm received no further contact. A total of 428 women were randomized into the intervention (214 into each arm). Between baseline and 4-month follow-up, mammogram screening increased from 16.0 to 49.0% in the Education + Media + PN arm (p
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- 2023