Journal article
Developing skin cancer education materials for darker skin populations: crowdsourced design, message targeting, and acral lentiginous melanoma
Journal of behavioral medicine, Vol.46(3), pp.377-390
06/2023
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-022-00362-x
PMID: 36125669
Abstract
Despite decreased susceptibility, darker skin individuals who develop melanoma have worse survival. This disparity in melanoma mortality is the largest for any cancer, and partly driven by a lack of patient education materials targeted to darker skin populations in whom acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is the most common subtype. To address this communication disparity, the current study reports a multi-phase design process that leverages crowdsourcing and message testing to develop ALM-focused patient education materials for darker skin populations. Crowdsourced design was utilized to develop a pool of designs (phase 1), the pool was narrowed and thematically analyzed (phase 2), and select designs were evaluated via a message experiment (N = 1877). For darker skin populations, designs that depicted people enhanced knowledge of ALM through message memorability. The current study engages melanoma disparities by providing ALM patient education materials for darker skin populations vetted via a multi-phase process.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Developing skin cancer education materials for darker skin populations: crowdsourced design, message targeting, and acral lentiginous melanoma
- Creators
- Sean J. Upshaw - The University of Texas at AustinJakob D. Jensen - Univ Utah, Dept Commun, Salt Lake City, UT USAElizabeth A. Giorgi - Univ Utah, Dept Commun, Salt Lake City, UT USAManusheela Pokharel - Texas State Univ, Dept Commun Studies, San Marcos, TX USAHelen M. Lillie - University of IowaDallin R. Adams - Univ Utah, Dept Commun, Salt Lake City, UT USAKevin K. John - Brigham Young Univ, Sch Commun, Provo, UT 84602 USAYelena P. Wu - Univ Utah, Dept Dermatol, Salt Lake City, UT USADouglas Grossman - University of Utah
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of behavioral medicine, Vol.46(3), pp.377-390
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10865-022-00362-x
- PMID
- 36125669
- ISSN
- 0160-7715
- eISSN
- 1573-3521
- Number of pages
- 14
- Grant note
- 1DP2EB022360-01; 3P30CA042014-29S7 / NIH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 09/20/2022
- Date published
- 06/2023
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984309752502771
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