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REDUCING CANCER HEALTH DISPARITIES
AMONG CHICAGO-AREA LATINOS/AS
A COMMUNITY-ENGAGED RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP
BETWEEN ALAS-WINGS LATINA ASSOCIATION FOR
BREAST CANCER AND NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Judy Guitelman1 , David Victorson, PhD2,6, Jennifer Banas, MPH, EdD3, Ninna Haas, MA4, Sandra Gutierrez, MS2, Adelina Barajas1, Alonso Valerio1, Carly Maletich, MA2,
Evelyn Cordero2, Jenni Antonicic1, Silvita Diaz Brown1, Kristin Osborn1, Jill Kuehn1, Julia Pedersen1,5, Melinda Ring, MD2,6
1 ALAS-WINGS, 2Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine; 3Northeastern Illinois University; 4BrightOutcome; 5YogaCare, 6Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Northwestern Medicine
Joint Service on NIHSupported Steering Committee
Initial Dissemination
-Banas, J., Victorson, D., Gutierrez, S,
Guitelman, J. (2013). Using Community
Engaged Research and eHealth Applications
to Support Low Health Literacy Hispanic
Cancer Survivors: Results from Initial
Qualitative Focus Groups. Poster
presentation at the annual meeting of the
Institute for Healthcare Advancement Annual
Meeting, Irvine, CA.
As a result of this partnership, Ms. Guitelman joined the
advisory board of Dr. Victorson’s NIH grant INTERCAMBIOS
(5R13HD07549402), which seeks to bring academic and
community leaders together to brainstorm solutions related to
obesity and chronic stress among Chicago-area Latinos/as.
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-Victorson, D., Banas, J., Gutierrez, S., &
Guitelman, J. (2013). Hispanic cancer
survivor preferences for a new eHealth
symptom management application
“MAESTRA” – Results from user-centered
design focus groups. Quality of Life Research
(22), p. 50.
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-Banas J, Victorson D, Guitleman J, Gutierrez,
S, Cordero E, Haas N. (Under Review). Initial
development of an mHealth Application to
Connect Newly Diagnosed Hispanic Cancer
Patients with Matched Peer Survivors:
Results from Focus Groups and Individual
Interviews with Spanish Language
Stakeholders. Journal of Cancer Education
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R21 Submissions
Through this work, we submitted a community engaged research
based R21 grant proposal to develop and pilot test a new mHealth
support tool called “MAESTRA”, which will enable one-to-one peer
support between Spanish-speaking women recently diagnosed with
breast cancer (mentees) and matched breast cancer survivor peers
(mentors). MAESTRA means “teacher or mentor” in Spanish and
stands for “mHealth Application to Enhance Support, Treatment
Readiness and Adjustment.” This proposal has received an impact
scores of 39 and 37.
Partnership Initiation
Ms. Judy Guitelman and Dr. David Victorson began a community-engaged research
partnership over four years ago through a pilot project within an NIH-funded P-20 grant
(NU NEIGHBORS, 5P20CA16558804), which sought to identify unmet support needs of
limited English speaking Latinas with breast cancer and determine whether mHealth
solutions existed to meet these needs. During this study, we created an MOU, Ms.
Guitelman co-led several focus groups with Spanish-speaking breast cancer survivors,
and both partners were involved with data analysis, interpretation, and dissemination.
Co-PI’s on a Spanish-language
Yoga Research Trial
Through INTERCAMBIOS, they learned of their mutual work and
interests in yoga therapy, and received a grant from the Osher Center
for Integrative Medicine and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer
Center for pilot funding to evaluate ALAS-WING’s yoga support
program with breast cancer survivors and their support providers. The
specific purpose is to examine the biopsychosocial impact of a
Spanish language community yoga intervention for Hispanic cancer
survivors and their care providers on self-reported outcomes of quality
of life and biomarkers of stress and cardiovascular risk.
Initial Dissemination
-Victorson, D, Guitelman, J, Gutierrez, B, Barajas, A, Valerio, A, Maletich,C, Antonicic, J, Diaz
Brown, S, Osborn, K., Kuehn, J, Pedersen, J, Ring, M. (2014). Developing and Evaluating a
Spanish-Language Community-Based Yoga Program to Address Overweight/Obesity and
Related Stressors Among Cancer Survivors Using A Community Engaged Research
Approach. Poster presented at the “Building Health Equity throughout Chicago through
Community Engaged Research” Symposium, Rush University Medical Center.
-Gutierrez S, Guitelman J, Rodriguez W, Valerio A, Rodriguez E, Maletich C, Ring M, Victorson
D. (2016). Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes among Overweight/obese Latino Cancer
Survivors using a Culturally Tailored Yoga Program: Preliminary Findings from a NonRandomized Pilot Study. Abstract accepted to the Integrative Medicine for the Underserved
(IM4US) 2016 Annual Conference.
-Maletich C, Guitelman J, Valerio A, Rodriguez E, Rodriguez W, Gutierrez S, Ring
M, Victorson D. (2016). Creating a Culturally Tailored Spanish Language Yoga Program for
Latinos with Cancer Using a Community Engaged Research Approach. Abstract accepted to
the Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US) 2016 Annual Conference.