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Satya P Rao1, Ernesto Moralez2, Jennifer Livaudais-Toman3
1Department of Public Health Sciences, New Mexico State University, 3 HLS, P.O. Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001, 575-635-6265.
Abstract:
We implemented a home-based group educational intervention in the form of home health parties (HHPs) among Hispanic men and women in the Lower Yakima Valley of Washington State led by trained bilingual promotoras and compared participants' baseline and follow-up responses to questions related to communications about CRC screening. We also documented participants perceptions of the CRC related educational information presented as measures of effectiveness of the HHPs as well as possible indicators of their intentions to engage in timely CRC screenings. The group based educational sessions resulted in positive participants' perceptions about the benefits of the CRC related information and in improved communications about CRC screening. Results suggest the benefits of utilizing promotoras' cultural knowledge and awareness to present content about cancers such as CRC in ways that are easily understandable to Hispanic participants and that could result in improved communications and action about cancer screenings.
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