How did we adapt a cervical cancer 筛选 program for a new audience?

挑战

Among the major ethnic groups in the U.S., Hispanic women have the highest rate of cervical cancer, but African American women are more likely to die of this disease.

Cervical cancer 筛选 is a critical first in obtaining treatment. Screening helps health care providers to identify women who have cervical cancer and connect them with cancer treatment. 然而, providing cervical cancer 筛选 to women who do not have ready access to health care services can be difficult.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asked 趣赢平台 to adapt a successful cervical cancer 筛选 program for use with African American women.

解决方案

趣赢平台 is supporting CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control in adapting AMIGAS, a community-based intervention that educates Hispanic women about cervical cancer 筛选. 趣赢平台 is modifying AMIGAS resources to reflect the needs of African American women who have rarely or never been screened for cervical cancer.

趣赢平台 performed the following:

• Convened an advisory group of community health workers from around the country, which guided development of the adapted intervention
• Conducted literature reviews to guide improvements in cervical cancer 筛选 for medically underserved African American women
• Revised existing AMIGAS materials on cervical cancer 筛选, 人乳头状瘤病毒, and 人乳头状瘤病毒 testing and developed new materials

结果

In consultation with CDC and the community health worker advisory group, 趣赢平台 created Face Your Health—an evidence-based educational intervention for African American women ages 21-65.

Face Your Health components include:

• An instructional toolbox with lesson plans and teaching aids to guide community health workers in educating African American women about risk factors for cervical cancer, 包括人乳头状瘤病毒感染, 以及筛查的好处.
• 项目资源, 其中包括游戏, 信息牌, 事实表, 任命卡, 常见问题, and a glossary on cervical cancer, 筛选, 解释测试结果.