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Talking to Employers and Medical Staff About Breast Cancer Treatment and Your Job
Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Summary
The purpose of this study is learn more about how being treated for breast cancer affects patients' employment. Researchers are testing an early version of a mobile app designed to help breast cancer patients keep their jobs during and after treatment. The app provides advice for patients to use when having conversations about breast cancer with their employers and their doctors. The app is called TEAMWork (Talking to Employers And Medical staff about Work). In this study, the investigators are asking breast cancer patients who are about to receive treatment or who are currently receiving treatment to tell us what aspects of the app work well, so that they can learn how to improve it.
Official title: Breast Cancer and the Workforce: Talking to Employers and Medical Staff About Work (TEAMWork)
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
546
Start Date
2018-06-07
Completion Date
2026-06
Last Updated
2026-03-24
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
TEAMWork App
The 2-pronged approach of the intervention is operationalized through 2 menus, 1 focused on interactions with the employer and the other with the clinic team. Each menu has a list of features from which participants can choose to learn about a particular topic. A "My notes" button allows participants to take notes directly on the app. These notes will not be available to the research team, such that participants may use the tool without concerns about privacy. The workplace accommodations menu includes sample videos using trained actors to demonstrate how to approach an employer to request accommodations. Additional features include suggestions for accommodations that may be helpful, templates for letters participants can use when requesting accommodations, links to relevant websites, information about legal protections, and contact information for lawyers and firms that provide pro bono assistance.
Information Booklet
Participants in the control arm will receive a booklet that includes the information in the app that can practicably be converted to paper. These participants will not have access to the multimedia aspects of the intervention, such as the videos, but they will have all of the relevant information in the app described above, including suggestions for accommodations, written templates for letters, links to websites, information about legal protections, and contact information for pro bono legal assistance. The booklet will also contain information about chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery, recommendations for management of common symptoms, and advice for communicating with the clinic team. The information booklet will be provided entirely on paper, although participants may independently access websites recommended in the booklet. The booklet content will mirror the app with regard to cultural responsiveness and appropriateness for different job types and characteristics.
Locations (9)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Consent and Follow-up)
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Consent and Follow-up)
Middletown, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Consent and Follow up)
Montvale, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent and Follow-up)
Harrison, New York, United States
Queens Cancer Center of Queens Hospital
Jamaica, New York, United States
Bellevue Hospital Center (Data Collection Only)
New York, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
The Bronx, New York, United States
Montefiore Medical Center
The Bronx, New York, United States