eprintid: 8796 rev_number: 6 userid: 6 dir: disk0/00/00/87/96 datestamp: 2011-11-10 19:55:58 lastmod: 2016-12-19 14:36:57 status_changed: 2011-11-10 19:55:58 type: thesis_degree metadata_visibility: show contact_email: lashawncurtis@yahoo.com item_issues_count: 0 eprint_status: archive creators_name: Curtis, LaShawn Marie creators_email: lashawncurtis@yahoo.com title: USING A MIXED-METHODS CASE STUDY DESIGN TO EXPLORE, EVALUATE, AND ENHANCE A CANCER PATIENT NAVIGATOR PROGRAM ispublished: unpub divisions: sch_gsph_behavioralcommhealthsci full_text_status: public keywords: cancer patient navigation; program evaluation; translation abstract: Background: Successful strategies for addressing inequalities in cancer care are greatly needed as critical racial/ethnic and socioeconomic cancer burden disparities persist in the United States. Patient navigation programs are a promising approach to reducing cancer care disparities. Methods: A mixed-methods evaluation was conducted to systematically collect, analyze and share information about the context, activities, and early impacts of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Cancer Centers' Minority Outreach Pilot Program (MOPP), a newly implemented cancer patient navigator intervention. The dissertation applies and integrates two evaluation frameworks: 1) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Framework for Program Evaluation, which provides an organizing structure and standards for conducting sound public health program evaluation, and 2) the RE-AIM framework, which helps to focus the evaluation on issues that are both relevant to stakeholders and critical to assessing the public health impact and generalizability of interventions. The evaluation employs a case study design that includes qualitative (e.g., program document review and informal and semi-structured interviews) and quantitative (e.g., descriptive statistical analysis of program database) methods to examine MOPP development and implementation. Results: The MOPP evaluation provided valuable qualitative and quantitative data related to program implementation achievements and challenges. Additionally, the evaluation produced useful products (e.g., logic model and data reporting templates) and led to immediate small-scale enhancements (e.g., database modifications). Results from the program evaluation suggest that MOPP is generally being implemented as planned. However, findings also called attention to key issues that should be monitored closely within the MOPP program, and, perhaps, within the larger patient navigation movement. These key issues include: the challenges of effectively navigating patients with substance abuse and the need to address the emotional burden of patient navigator work. Conclusion: The public health significance of the evaluation lies in its potential to strengthen MOPP's impact on reducing cancer care disparities in the UPMC patient population. In addition, publication of the evaluation research will contribute to the growing evidence base for cancer patient navigator interventions and address the need to develop the literature on patient navigation. date: 2008-09-28 date_type: completed institution: University of Pittsburgh refereed: TRUE etdcommittee_type: committee_chair etdcommittee_type: committee_member etdcommittee_type: committee_member etdcommittee_type: committee_member etdcommittee_type: committee_member etdcommittee_name: Trauth, Jeanette etdcommittee_name: Butler, James etdcommittee_name: Robertson, Lyn B etdcommittee_name: Documét, Patricia I etdcommittee_name: Goodman, Robert M etdcommittee_email: trauth@pitt.edu etdcommittee_email: jbutler9@pitt.edu etdcommittee_email: robertsonlk@upmc.edu etdcommittee_email: pdocumet@pitt.edu etdcommittee_email: rmg@indiana.edu etdcommittee_id: TRAUTH etdcommittee_id: JBUTLER9 etdcommittee_id: LYNNPCI etdcommittee_id: PDOCUMET etdcommittee_id: etd_defense_date: 2008-07-23 etd_approval_date: 2008-09-28 etd_submission_date: 2008-08-01 etd_access_restriction: immediate etd_patent_pending: FALSE assigned_doi: doi:10.5195/pitt.etd.2011.8796 thesis_type: dissertation degree: DrPH committee: Jeanette Trauth, MPA, MS, PhD (trauth@pitt.edu) - Committee Chair committee: James Butler, MEd, H (jbutler9@pitt.edu) - Committee Member committee: Lyn B. Robertson, RN, MSN, H (robertsonlk@upmc.edu) - Committee Member committee: Patricia I. Documét, MD, H (pdocumet@pitt.edu) - Committee Member committee: Robert M. Goodman, MA, MPH, PhD (rmg@indiana.edu) - Committee Member etdurn: etd-08012008-042942 other_id: http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-08012008-042942/ other_id: etd-08012008-042942 citation: Curtis, LaShawn Marie (2008) USING A MIXED-METHODS CASE STUDY DESIGN TO EXPLORE, EVALUATE, AND ENHANCE A CANCER PATIENT NAVIGATOR PROGRAM. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished) document_url: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/8796/1/CurtisLM.8-2008.pdf