Ethnic Differences in the Impact of Breast Cancer on Employment Status, Financial Situation, and Quality of Life

Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn more about how being treated for breast cancer affects patients' employment, financial situation, and quality of life on a short-term basis and on a long term basis. Most studies of employment after breast cancer have focused on Caucasian women.This study will evaluate the impact of breast cancer on the lives of women from different ethnic groups.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

survey web-based or telephone interview

Patients will be asked to complete a questionnaire at baseline, and then one at follow up, 3-4 months after treatment completion. The patient will be contacted one and two years after the completion of their follow up questionnaire for a brief one-question survey regarding current employment status. A member of the study team will call a subset of patients who have completed both baseline and follow-up surveys to clarify responses to previous questions. Patients will be considered lost to follow- up if surveys A or C have not been completed two years from the participant's consent date (participants who enroll but do not complete survey A are not prompted for survey C). Deviations will not be filed until the end of the study, as there are opportunities over the course of study follow- up to collect previously missing information.

BEHAVIORAL

survey web-based or telephone interview

Patients will be asked to complete a questionnaire at baseline, and then one at follow up, 3-4 months after treatment completion. All three follow-up contact methods (email, postcard, call) contain the same question regarding current employment status with minor modifications in formatting. However, the employment question asked in all three follow-up contact methods is shown in the Postcard\_Template document. Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic study staff will be working from home. Therefore, calls will be made via MSK-approved platforms (e.g. Jabber, etc.). Participants who express concerns or request assistance related to COVID-19 will be referred to publicly available resources as needed (e.g., call 311 for access to health care or food panties, etc.) and will be noted in internal tracking logs. The data collected for these internal tracking logs will be managed through a REDCap database.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The City College of New York

  collaborator OTHER

• NYC Health & Hospitals/ Lincoln Medical Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• New York Presbyterian Queens

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation

  collaborator OTHER

• Queens Medical Associates

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Victoria Blinder, M.D., M.Sc. · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

64 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2010-05-31

Primary Completion

2026-05-31

Completion

2026-05-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations