Publications by authors named "C El-Khoury"
Importance: Cervical cancer screening is a crucial public health intervention, but screening disparities exist for women with physical disabilities (WWPD).
Objective: To explore the experiences of WWPD with both traditional speculum examination-based screening and at-home self-sampling for cervical cancer screening.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This qualitative study enrolled 56 WWPD to test self-sampling kits, provide feedback via a survey, and participate in a qualitative interview.
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- Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) is an eating disorder focused on the quality of food rather than quantity, leading to varied and inconsistent assessment tools, affecting healthcare support for individuals with ON.
- The study aims to develop the first culturally relevant assessment tool for ON (LONI) in the Lebanese population, addressing limitations of existing scales.
- The LONI demonstrated strong reliability and validity, with a unidimensional structure that is effective for measuring ON traits across diverse populations.
Background: Despite the importance of community involvement in research, little formal training in community outreach and engagement (COE) is offered to cancer research trainees. A collaboration between the Office of COE and the Office of Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Jefferson led to the COE-CRTEC Trainee Working Group, a unique program in which trainees in cancer research each created a novel COE initiative.
Methods: Four cancer research trainees were selected to serve as COE Program Liaisons (CPLs), each aligned with one of the four cancer center research programs.
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- Racial disparities in prostate cancer care were studied, revealing improved MRI utilization for detection over time, particularly from 3.8% in 2012 to 32.6% in 2019 among nearly 91,000 patients.
- The gap in MRI use between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White patients narrowed significantly, though rural residents remained less likely to receive the procedure.
- The study suggests focusing public health interventions on geographical disparities, as income and education also influence MRI usage, and emphasizes the need for further research into the causes of these inequities.
: PCa is one of the cancers that exhibits the widest disparity gaps. Geographical place of residence has been shown to be associated with healthcare access/utilization and PCa outcomes. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are widely being utilized for PCa disparities research, however, inconsistencies in their application exist.
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