SF HINTS aims to enhance our current city-wide cancer control and prevention initiative, SF-CAN, with local administration of a health information seeking behavior survey with an emphasis on vulnerable populations. The primary goal is to better understand the extent to which populations with limited English proficiency and low health literacy have access to and use health information technology for their health communication needs.
Leveraging relationships with community-based partners, SF HINTS recruited over 1000 participants from diverse backgrounds. The survey was administered in four languages (English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese) and included roughly equal proportions of non-English and English-speaking participants. Among the English-language participants, approximately half of participants are African American. These data advanced our understanding of cancer prevention preferences and behaviors, and informed targeted outreach efforts that are needed to address cancer control within this diverse population.
Publications
Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Rivadeneira NA, Torres JM, Sarkar U & Hiatt RA. Socioeconomic status and colorectal cancer screening behaviors in a vulnerable multiethnic population. Ethn Health. 2020 Oct 29;1-17. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2020.1838454. PMID: 33121258.
Khoong EC, Rivadeneira NA, Hiatt RA, Sarkar U. The Use of Technology for Communicating With Clinicians or Seeking Health Information in a Multilingual Urban Cohort: Cross-Sectional Survey. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Apr 6;22(4):e16951. doi: 10.2196/16951. PMID: 32250280; PMCID: PMC7171563.
Barrett NJ, Rodriguez EM, Iachan R, Hyslop T, Ingraham KL, Le GM, Martin K, Haring RC, Rivadeneira NA, Erwin DO, Fish LJ, Middleton D, Hiatt RA, Patierno SR, Sarkar U, Gage-Bouchard EA. Factors associated with biomedical research participation within community-based samples across 3 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers. Cancer. 2020 Mar 1;126(5):1077-1089. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32487. Epub 2020 Jan 7. PMID: 31909824; PMCID: PMC7021578.
Rivadeneira NA, Hoskote M, Le GM, Nguyen TT, Nápoles AM, Pasick RJ, Sarkar U, Hiatt RA. Advancing Cancer Control in San Francisco: Cancer Screening in Under-Represented Populations. Am J Prev Med. 2020 Jan;58(1):e1-e9. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.08.024. PMID: 31862104
Khoong EC, Le GM, Hoskote M, Rivadeneira NA, Hiatt RA, Sarkar U. Health Information-seeking Behaviors and Preferences of a Diverse, Multilingual Urban Cohort. Med Care. 2019 Jun; 57 Suppl 6 Suppl 2:S176-S183. PMID: 31095058.