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HCV Screening Behaviors and Infection Status among Vietnamese Americans
Grace X Ma1, Guo Yolanda Zhang2, Mary Y Jung3
1Department of Public Health and Center for Asian Health, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Objectives:
The aim of this study was to identify socio-economic and acculturation factors associated with hepatitis C (HCV) screening and infection among US Vietnamese Americans.
Methods:
Participants were recruited from 7 Vietnamese community-based organizations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The analysis ultimately included 309 participants who participated in a HCV education intervention program.
Results:
Overall, 82.5% (255 of 309) intervention participants completed HCV screening over the 6 months prior to the post-intervention assessment. In multivariate-adjusted analysis, participants who lived in Vietnam for 40 years versus 20 years were more likely to receive HCV screening; unemployed individuals were less likely to receive HCV screening than employed people. Among screened participants, 7.5% had HCV infection.
Conclusions:
These findings will guide future culturally and linguistically appropriate interventions to reduce HCV infection and HCV-related liver cancer.
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