Evidence-based interventions: research-tested strategies that are designed to increase lifesaving screening and reduce disparities without using limited resources on less effective activities.
Run by the Community Preventive Services Task Force (appointed by the CDC), The Community Guide is a website with intervention resources and strategies for improving health and preventing disease, including breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, etc. Click on the photos of evidence-based interventions below to enlarge them; links to printable pdfs are attached.
The Cancer Control Planet has many resources for providing evidence-based multicomponent interventions. The Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T. portal provides access to Web-based resources that can assist in:
- Assessing the cancer and/or risk factor burden within a given state (and has a link to state cancer profiles).
- Identifying potential partners that may already be working with high-risk populations.
- Understanding the current research findings and recommendations.
- Accessing and downloading evidence-based programs and products.
- Finding guidelines for planning and evaluation.
It includes topics such as:
Multi-Component Interventions: combining multiple evidence-based strategies (typically using two or more intervention approaches to reduce different structural barriers)
- Interventions to increased community demand: client reminders, client incentives, small media, mass media, group education, and one-on-one education
- Client reminders can be written (letter, postcard, email) or telephone messages
- Interventions to increase community access: reducing structural barriers and reducing client out-of-pocket costs
- Reducing out-of-pocket costs can be vouchers, reimbursements, or a reduction in co-pays
- Interventions to increased provider delivery of screening services: provider assessment and feedback, provider incentives, and provider reminders
One-on-One Education:
- Goal: informing, encouraging a patient to overcome barriers to cancer screening, motivating patients to seek recommended screening
- Delivered by: healthcare workers or health professionals, lay health advisors, volunteers
- Conducted by telephone or in person in medical, community, worksite, or household settings
- Often accompanied by supporting materials delivered by small media (such as brochures, flyers, or posters) or client reminders
Group Education: has only been found significantly effective in the case of breast cancer screening
- Goal: informing, encouraging a patient to overcome barriers to cancer screening, motivating patients to seek recommended screening
- Delivered by: healthcare workers or health professionals, lay health advisors, volunteers
- Methods: presentations or teaching aids, in lecture or interactive format, or the incorporation of role modeling
- Group education can be given to a variety of groups in different settings by different types of educators that may have different backgrounds and styles
