Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2386 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144274)
Principal Investigator: Akopian, David
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 168,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 1/1/23 - 12/31/26
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Engineering and Integrated Design
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Institute Sust Perv Urban Res
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Avanzando Equidad de Salud: Latino Cancer Health Equity Research Center (LCHERC)
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
CFDA: 0
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1; The goal of this randomized controlled research study is to assess the effectiveness of the HT Helper app, a bilingual, culturally tailored, personalized, interactive mobile application (app) in combination with patient navigation including SDoH screening and guidance to promote and improve adherence to hormonal therapy (HT) among Latina breast cancer patients experiencing SDOH such language barriers, low-income, lack of health insurance and low-education/health literacy. This theory-based intervention emphasizes the importance of increasing patient education, enhancing self-efficacy, facilitating communication with the medical team and helping patients to develop self-care skills to promote optimal adherence to hormone therapy to ensure that all patients experience the best treatment outcomes possible, including improvement in quality of life, overall survival and life expectancy. This innovative interactive, mobile-based and multi-communication intervention could result improvements in breast cancer outcomes by reducing recurrence, improving quality of life, overall survival and life expectancy among Latinas and other underserved breast cancer patients.
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