Gray, J.; Petrucci, C.; Engel, C.; Green-Washington, N.; Buermeyer, N. Development of Systemic Interventions to Decrease Breast Cancer Risk: A Group Concept Mapping Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2024, 21, 318.
Gray, J.; Petrucci, C.; Engel, C.; Green-Washington, N.; Buermeyer, N. Development of Systemic Interventions to Decrease Breast Cancer Risk: A Group Concept Mapping Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21, 318.
Gray, J.; Petrucci, C.; Engel, C.; Green-Washington, N.; Buermeyer, N. Development of Systemic Interventions to Decrease Breast Cancer Risk: A Group Concept Mapping Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2024, 21, 318.
Gray, J.; Petrucci, C.; Engel, C.; Green-Washington, N.; Buermeyer, N. Development of Systemic Interventions to Decrease Breast Cancer Risk: A Group Concept Mapping Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21, 318.
Abstract
As breast cancer continues to take a devasting public health toll, most primary prevention approaches are targeted at individual actions. We have proposed, instead, developing systemic, population approaches to preventing the disease. We used a combined qualitative-quantitative methodology, Group Concept Mapping (GCM), to identify Importance and Feasibility ratings of systemic interventions across a wide spectrum of approaches and stakeholders. Participants (n=351) from across the state of California sorted 84 potential interventions into topical piles, and then rated each intervention on perceived Importance and Feasibility. Multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis identified eleven clusters or themes of interventions. Participants rated interventions on Importance and Feasibility differently depending on the region of the state in which they lived. The results of this study underscore the importance of sharing health information with and seeking public health solutions from community partners in general and from beyond the urban areas usually studied.
Keywords
breast cancer; primary prevention; community-partnered participatory research; group concept mapping; community public health
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
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