1. A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Cervical Cancer Education Intervention for Latinas Delivered Through Interactive, Multimedia Kiosks.
- Author
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Valdez, Armando, Napoles, Anna M, Stewart, Susan L, and Garza, Alvaro
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Humans ,Vaginal Smears ,Risk Factors ,Health Knowledge ,Attitudes ,Practice ,Health Education ,Multimedia ,Adult ,Aged ,Middle Aged ,Uterine Cervical Neoplasms ,Female ,Early Detection of Cancer ,Young Adult ,Papanicolaou Test ,Hispanic or Latino ,Attitudes ,Cervical cancer ,Education intervention ,Health disparities ,Information technology ,Interactive ,Knowledge ,Latina/Hispanic ,Pap test ,Cervical Cancer ,Prevention ,Sexually Transmitted Infections ,Cancer ,Clinical Research ,Health Services ,Basic Behavioral and Social Science ,Infectious Diseases ,Behavioral and Social Science ,Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities ,Nursing ,Public Health and Health Services ,Public Health - Abstract
US Latina women experience disproportionately high cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates. These health disparities are largely preventable with routine pap tests and human papillomavirus (HPV) screening. This study tested the efficacy of a cervical cancer education intervention to improve risk factor knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and self-reported behavior related to cervical cancer screening among low-income Latinas who had not been screened in the past 2 years, compared to a usual care control group. Low-income Latinas who had not had a pap test in the prior 2 years were recruited from three Federally Qualified Health Centers and randomly assigned to intervention and control groups, with in-person assessment at baseline and 6-month follow-up. Women in the intervention group received a one-time low-literacy cervical cancer education program through an interactive, multimedia kiosk in either English or Spanish based on their language preference. Compared to the control group, the intervention group demonstrated greater knowledge (p
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- 2018