Trial reportJournal of community health2011
Hepatitis B ESL education for Asian immigrants.
Trial report in Journal of community health, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Gender differences in the context of interventions for improving health literacy in migrants: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions for improving health literacy in migrants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Interventions for Hepatitis B and C: A Systematic Review of Vaccination, Screening, Health Promotion and Linkage to Care Within Higher Income Countries.Journal of community health · 2020Pooled it
- Assessing evidence of interventions addressing inequity among migrant populations: a two-stage systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2019Pooled it
- Improving access to health care for chronic hepatitis B among migrant Chinese populations: A systematic mixed methods review of barriers and enablers.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2017Pooled it
- Assessing the feasibility, acceptability and impacts of an education program on hepatitis B testing uptake among ethnic Chinese in Australia: results of a randomised controlled pilot study.BMC public health · 2021Trial
- Increasing hepatitis B screening for hmong adults: results from a randomized controlled community-based study.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2013Trial
- Appraisal of community-based interventions for hepatitis B in underserved populations using the quadruple aim of value-based medicine: a scoping review within the VH-COMSAVAC project.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effectiveness and implementation of decentralized, community- and primary care-based strategies in promoting hepatitis B testing uptake: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Hepatitis B screening and knowledge among Chinese and Vietnamese students in Australia.PloS one · 2024Article
- Utilizing RE-AIM to scope potential for feasible immigrant cancer literacy education.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Development and pilot testing of a health education program to improve immigrants' access to Canadian health services.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- A crowdsourced intervention to promote hepatitis B and C testing among men who have sex with men in China: A nationwide online randomized controlled trial.EClinicalMedicine · 2019Article
- Incorporating Health Literacy Into English as a Second Language Classes.Health literacy research and practice · 2019Article
- Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B Infection Among Immigrants in a Primary Care Clinic: A Case for Granular Ethnicity and Language Data Collection.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2017Article
- Analysis of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C Seromarkers Among Barbers in Tehran.Hepatitis monthly · 2016Article
- Knowledge of hepatitis B risk factors and prevention practices among individuals chronically infected with hepatitis B in San Francisco, California.Journal of community health · 2012Article
- Debunking the myth: low knowledge levels of HBV infection among Asian American college students.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursingArticle
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Asian communities in North America include large numbers of immigrants with limited English proficiency. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is endemic in most Asian countries and, therefore, Asian immigrant groups have high rates of chronic HBV infection. We conducted a group-randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a hepatitis B English as a second language (ESL) educational curriculum for Asian immigrants. Eighty ESL classes were randomized to experimental (hepatitis B education) or control (physical activity education) status. Students who reported they had not received a HBV test (at baseline) completed a follow-up survey 6 months after randomization. The follow-up survey assessed recent HBV testing and HBV-related knowledge. Provider reports were used to verify self-reported HBV tests. The study group included 218 students who reported they had not been tested for HBV. Follow-up surveys were completed by 180 (83%) of these students. Provider records verified HBV testing for 6% of the experimental group students and 0% of the control group students (P = 0.02). Experimental group students were significantly (P < 0.05) more likely than control group students to know that immigrants have high HBV infection rates, HBV can be spread during sexual intercourse and by sharing razors, and HBV infection can cause liver cancer. Our ESL curriculum had a meaningful impact on HBV-related knowledge and a limited impact on HBV testing levels. Future research should evaluate the effectiveness of ESL curricula for other immigrant groups and other health topics, as well as other intervention approaches to increasing levels of HBV testing in Asian immigrant communities.
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