Implementation of Liver Cancer Education Among Health Care Providers and Community Coalitions in the Cherokee Nation.

Autor: Momin B; Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, MS F-76, Atlanta, GA 30341. Email: fqv6@cdc.gov., Mera J; Cherokee Nation Health Services, Tahlequah, Oklahoma., Essex W; Cherokee Nation Health Services, Tahlequah, Oklahoma., Gahn D; Cherokee Nation Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, Tahlequah, Oklahoma., Burkhart M; Cherokee Nation Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, Tahlequah, Oklahoma., Nielsen D; ICF, Atlanta, Georgia., Mezzo J; ICF, Atlanta, Georgia., Millman AJ; Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Preventing chronic disease [Prev Chronic Dis] 2019 Aug 22; Vol. 16, pp. E112. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Aug 22.
DOI: 10.5888/pcd16.180671
Abstrakt: 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.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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