Authors: Angela Sauaia, Sung-joon Min, Tim Byers, David Lack, Cecilia Apodaca, Diego Osuna, Angela Stowe, Gretchen F McGinnis, and Lisa M Latts
The Tepeyac Project is a church-based health promotion project that was conducted from 1999 through 2005 to increase breast cancer screening rates among Latinas in Colorado. Previous reports evaluated the project among Medicare and Medicaid enrollees in the state. In this report, we evaluate the program among enrollees in the state’s five major insurance plans. Rates increased modestly over time and varied widely by insurance type. After adjusting for age, income, urban versus rural location, disability, and insurance type, we found that women exposed to the Promotora Intervention had a significantly higher increase in biennial mammograms than did women exposed to the Printed Intervention. For insured Latinas, personally delivering church-based education through peer counselors appears to be a better breast-health promotion method than mailing printed educational materials to churches.
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Resource Topic: Behavior Change and Communication, Community Assessment, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Faith Based Organizations, Minority Population, Program Evaluation
Resource Type: Journal articles, Research
Year: 2007
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Country: United States of America
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