Circles of Care: Development and Initial Evaluation of a Peer Support Model for African Americans With Advanced Cancer

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 536-543

  Hanson, Laura C ^a   Armstrong, Tonya D ^b   Green, Melissa A ^a   Hayes, Michelle ^a   Peacock, Stacie ^c   Elliot Bynum, Sharon ^d   Goldmon, Moses V ^e   Corbie Smith, Giselle ^a   Earp, Jo Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Union Baptist Church and The Armstrong Center for Hope   (United States)

^c Project Compassion   (United States)

^d Community Health Coalition and Healing with CAARE Inc ^*  (United States)

^e SHAW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; community based participatory research; evaluation; formative evaluation; health behavior; lay health workers; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LAY HEALTH WORKERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PEER GROUP; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE/ETHNICITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VOLUNTEER;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EVALUATION; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LAY HEALTH WORKERS; RACE/ETHNICITY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PEER GROUP; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84884469870     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198112461252     Document Type: Article

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