1. Implementation of Liver Cancer Education Among Health Care Providers and Community Coalitions in the Cherokee Nation
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David Gahn, Alexander J. Millman, Jennifer L Mezzo, Behnoosh Momin, Danielle Nielsen, Jorge Mera, Whitney Essex, and Margie Burkhart
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Program evaluation ,Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health Personnel ,Psychological intervention ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cherokee ,Program Evaluation Brief ,Intervention (counseling) ,Preventive Health Services ,Health care ,medicine ,Health Services, Indigenous ,Humans ,Community Health Services ,030212 general & internal medicine ,0101 mathematics ,Descriptive statistics ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,Public health ,Liver Neoplasms ,010102 general mathematics ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Hepatitis C ,Quality Improvement ,United States ,language.human_language ,Family medicine ,Scale (social sciences) ,Indians, North American ,language ,business ,Delivery of Health Care ,Program Evaluation - Abstract
Introduction The Cherokee Nation Comprehensive Cancer Control Program collaborated with the Cherokee Nation Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Elimination Program within Cherokee Nation’s Health Services to plan and implement activities to increase knowledge and awareness of liver cancer prevention among health care providers and the Cherokee Nation community. From August 2017 to April 2018, the 2 programs implemented liver cancer prevention interventions that focused on education of health care providers and community members. We used descriptive statistics to analyze data collected from a brief, retrospective pre–post survey for each intervention. We assessed overall awareness and knowledge of liver cancer and ability and intention to address it on a scale of 1 to 5. Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes didactic sessions resulted in a 1.1-point improvement, provider education workshops resulted in a 1.4-point improvement, and presentations at community coalition meetings resulted in a 1.7-point improvement. Our study shows that HCV interventions can be used by public health and medical professionals interested in controlling HCV and related diseases such as liver cancer.
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- 2019