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Trial reportJournal of health communication2014

Development and validation of the assessment of health literacy in breast and cervical cancer screening.

Hae-Ra Han, Boyun Huh, Miyong T Kim, Jiyun Kim, Tam Nguyen

Registry-linked trialOpen access · greenAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of health communication, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03726619 (e-CHEC-uP), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03726619 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

e-CHEC-uP: Scaling up an Efficacious Cancer Screening Intervention for Women With Limited English

TypeinterventionalSponsorJohns Hopkins UniversityRan2019 to 2020Enrolled40ConditionsBreast Cancer, Cervical CancerArmse-CHEC-uP, CHEC-uP
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Interventions for improving health literacy in migrants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  8. Community-based health literacy focused intervention for cervical cancer control among Black women living with human immunodeficiency virus: A randomized pilot trial.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023
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  13. Development of the Swahili Cancer Health Literacy Test for use in the African context.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2026
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  18. Cancer Screening Program Delivered by Community Health Workers for Chinese Married Immigrant Women in Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  20. Exploring Health Literacy and the Correlates of Pap Testing Among African Immigrant Women: Findings from the AfroPap Study.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Hae-Ra Hana The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing , Baltimore , Maryland , USA.
Boyun Huh
Miyong T Kim
Jiyun Kim
Tam Nguyen
Boston College · USGachon University · KRJohns Hopkins Medicine · USThe University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

Better Breast and Cervical Cancer Control for Korean American WomenR01CA129060 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HAN, HAE-RA · 2009 to 2012
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA129060NCI NIH HHS R01CA129060
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For many people limited health literacy is a major barrier to effective preventive health behavior such as cancer screening, yet a comprehensive health literacy measure that is specific to breast and cervical cancer screening is not readily available. The purpose of this article is to describe the development and testing of a new instrument to measure health literacy in the context of breast and cervical cancer screening, the Assessment of Health Literacy in Cancer Screening (AHL-C). The AHL-C is based on Baker's conceptualization of health literacy and modeled from the two most popular health literacy tests, the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine and the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults. The AHL-C consists of four subscales; print literacy, numeracy, comprehension, and familiarity. We used baseline data from 560 Korean American immigrant women who participated in a community-based randomized trial designed to test the effect of a health literacy-focused intervention to promote breast and cervical cancer screening. Rigorous psychometric testing supports that the AHL-C is reliable, valid, and significantly correlated with theoretically selected variables. Future research is needed to test the utility of the AHL-C in predicting cancer screening outcomes.

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AdultAsianBreast NeoplasmsEarly Detection of CancerEducational MeasurementEmigrants and ImmigrantsFemaleHealth LiteracyHumansMiddle AgedPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsUterine Cervical Neoplasms

Identifiers

PMID25315598
PMCPMC4751992
OpenAlexW2011518305

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