Participants will participate in a peer ambassador program where a patient ambassador (mentor) will be paired with a mentee. The patient ambassador will be a patient with history of cancer who has participated in a clinical trial and can serve as an ambassador to facilitate discussions regarding education and awareness of clinical trials. This discussion will potentially assist mentees to make informed decisions about their engagement in discussing clinical trials, looking for clinical trials, and desire and acceptance of clinical trials. This will also allow ambassadors to gain information about perceived barriers regarding clinical trials.
This study will be a multi-institutional prospective cohort study conducted at Penn and Hopkins. The investigators seek to identify approximately 10 patient ambassadors, who will be trained to lead 1:1 discussion with patient mentees. Each ambassador will be paired with up to 10 mentees. Each ambassador-mentee pairing will have 1-2 encounters (meetings) over the course of 12 months.
