一项随机对照试验测试了亚裔美国女性乳腺癌幸存者的虚拟程序
Eun-Ok Im1, Wonshik Chee2, Sudeshna Paul3
1The University of Texas at Austin, 1710 Red River St, Austin, TX, 78712, USA. eunok.im@austin.utexas.edu.
Nature communications
|October 14, 2023
概括
一个为亚裔美国女性乳腺癌幸存者量身定制的虚拟计划显著减少了他们的需求并改善了生活质量. 这种文化敏感的方法有效地解决了独特的生存挑战.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 健康差异 在健康上的差异
- 数字健康数字健康
背景情况:
- 亚裔美国女性乳腺癌幸存者 (AABC) 面临着独特的生存需求.
- 根据文化定制的干预措施对于应对这些具体挑战至关重要.
- 虚拟程序为AABC幸存者护理提供了一个可扩展的解决方案.
研究的目的:
- 评估AABC的文化定制虚拟程序 (TICAA) 的有效性.
- 评估TICAA对幸存者的需求,症状和生活质量的影响.
- 确定虚拟,文化敏感的支持是否改善了AABC的结果.
主要方法:
- 一个随机临床试验 (NCT02803593),从2017年1月到2020年6月,涉及199名AABC.
- 干预组接受了TICAA加上美国癌症协会 (ACS) 网站;对照组仅接受了ACS网站12周.
- 通过SCNS-34SF (需要),MSAS-SF (症状) 和FACT-B (生活质量) 测量结果;治疗意图分析.
主要成果:
- 干预组从基线到4周和12周的生存需求显著减少.
- 虽然没有统计学意义,但干预组的症状有所减少,而对照组的症状有所增加.
- 从基线到12周的干预组中观察到生活质量的显著改善.
结论:
- 一个文化定制的虚拟计划 (TICAA) 有效地改善了亚裔美国女性乳腺癌幸存者的生活质量.
- 虚拟,文化敏感的干预措施可以成功地解决AABC未满足的生存需求.
- 这项研究支持使用数字健康解决方案,以提高不同人群的癌症生存率.
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