Systematic Review of Mentoring to Prevent or Reduce Tobacco Use by Adolescents

Thomas, Roger E.; Lorenzetti, Diane; Spragins, Wendy

doi:10.1016/j.acap.2013.03.008

Cited by 22 publications

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“…A peer-to-peer mentoring program that aims to provide support based on the sharing of information and experiences may particularly benefit African American women with SLE. In studies of predominantly low income and minority populations, specifically, peer mentors have been shown to help support healthy behaviors, including breast feeding, smoking cessation, increased physical activity, and maintenance of weight loss (22,23), along with improved medication adherence and blood glucose monitoring in trials of people with diabetes mellitus (24,25). These studies highlight the potential of peer mentoring as a culturally sensitive means to improving health behaviors and outcomes in low income and minority groups in whom trust in the health care system may be lower than in the general population (15,24).…”

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Peer‐to‐Peer Mentoring for African American Women With Lupus: A Feasibility Pilot

Williams

Hyer

Ramakrishnan

et al. 2018

Arthritis Care & Research

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The intervention was well received. Training, the peer-mentoring program, and outcome measures were demonstrated to be feasible with modifications. This result provides preliminary support for the efficacy, acceptability, and perceived credibility of a peer-mentoring approach to improve disease self-management and health-related quality of life in African American women with SLE. Peer mentoring may augment current rheumatologic care.

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Peer‐to‐Peer Mentoring for African American Women With Lupus: A Feasibility Pilot

Williams

Hyer

Ramakrishnan

et al. 2018

Arthritis Care & Research

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“…In studies of predominantly low-income and minority populations, peer mentors have been shown to help support healthy behaviors including breastfeeding, smoking cessation, increased physical activity and maintenance of weight loss. 178,179,183–185,187,188,190–193,203–210 These studies highlight the potential of peer mentoring as a culturally sensitive means to improving health behaviors and outcomes in minority populations, 149,170,198,202,211,217 but there is no such peer mentoring intervention developed for patients with SLE. There is some evidence that peer mentoring has also led to improvements in positive affect, sleep, social coping and perception of bodily pain in rheumatic conditions.…”

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Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Williams

Egede

Faith

et al. 2017

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with significant mortality, morbidity and cost for the individual patient and society. In the United States, African Americans (AAs) have 3–4 times greater prevalence of lupus, risk of developing lupus at an earlier age and lupus-related disease activity, organ damage and mortality compared with whites. Evidence-based self-management interventions that incorporate both social support and health education have reduced pain, improved function and delayed disability among patients with lupus. However, AAs and women are still disproportionately affected by lupus. This article presents the argument that peer mentoring may be an especially effective intervention approach for AA women with SLE. SLE peers with a track record of success in lupus management and have a personal perspective that clinicians often lack. This commonality and credibility can establish trust, increase communication and, in turn, decrease disparities in healthcare outcomes.

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“…Moreover, physicians who are not specialists in adolescent medicine may lack the necessary training to care for this population [39]. Thus, when considering this underrepresentation, it may be possible to consider the use of peer-centered support groups, similar to some of the interventions used in tobacco prevention [40], given that these patients are more dependent and focused on their peers. Determining opportunity barriers to participation in clinical research relies heavily on the quality of communication between the patient and his/her provider.…”

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Participation in pediatric oncology research protocols: Racial/ethnic, language and age‐based disparities

Aristizabal

Singer

Cooper

et al. 2015

Pediatric Blood & Cancer

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Background Survival rates in pediatric oncology have improved dramatically, in part due to high patient participation in clinical trials. Although racial/ethnic inequalities in clinical trial participation have been reported in adults, pediatric data and studies comparing participation rates by socio-demographic characteristics are scarce. The goal of this study was to assess differences in research protocol participation for childhood cancer by age, sex, race/ethnicity, parental language, cancer type and insurance status. Procedure Data on enrollment in any protocol, biospecimen, or therapeutic protocols were collected and analyzed for newly diagnosed pediatric patients with cancer from 2008–2012 at Rady Children’s Hospital. Results Among the 353 patients included in the analysis, 304 (86.1%) were enrolled in any protocol. Enrollment in biospecimen and therapeutic protocols was 84.2% (261/310) and 81.1% (206/254), respectively. Logistic regression analyses revealed significant enrollment underrepresentation in any protocol for Hispanics compared to Non-Hispanic whites (81% vs. 91%; Odds Ratio [OR], 0.43; 95% Confidence Interval [CI], 0.21–0.90; p=0.021) and among children of Spanish-speaking vs. English-speaking parents (78% vs. 89%; OR, 0.45; 95%CI, 0.23–0.87; p=0.016). Compared to patients aged 0–4 years, significant underrepresentation was also found among patients 15–21 years old (92% vs.72%; OR, 0.21; 95% CI, 0.09–0.48; p<0.001). Similar trends were observed when analyzing enrollment in biospecimen and therapeutic protocols separately. Conclusions There was significant underrepresentation in protocol participation for Hispanics, children of Spanish-speaking parents, and patients ages 15–21. Research is urgently needed to understand barriers to research participation among these groups underrepresented in pediatric oncology clinical trials.

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Systematic Review of Mentoring to Prevent or Reduce Tobacco Use by Adolescents

Cited by 22 publications

References 19 publications

Peer‐to‐Peer Mentoring for African American Women With Lupus: A Feasibility Pilot

Peer‐to‐Peer Mentoring for African American Women With Lupus: A Feasibility Pilot

Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Participation in pediatric oncology research protocols: Racial/ethnic, language and age‐based disparities

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