ArticlePreventive medicine reports2017
Impact of a brief intervention on cervical health literacy: A waitlist control study with jailed women.
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Sexual Health Empowerment for Cervical Health Literacy and Cancer Prevention
Sexual Health Empowerment for Jail-Involved Women's Health Literacy and Prevention
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions for the detection, monitoring, and management of chronic non-communicable diseases in the prison population: an international systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Cervical Cancer Screening Access, Outcomes, and Prevalence of Dysplasia in Correctional Facilities: A Systematic Review.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2019Pooled it
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- Abnormal Pap Follow-Up among Criminal-Legal Involved Women in Three U.S. Cities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Managing Technology, Content, and User Experience: An mHealth Intervention to Improve Women's Health Literacy after Incarceration.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2021Article
- Incarceration Exposure and Barriers to Prenatal Care in the United States: Findings from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of a Kansas City, Jail-Based Intervention to Improve Cervical Health Literacy and Screening, One-Year Post-Intervention.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2020Article
- Voter Registration and Jail-Incarcerated Women: Are Justice-Involved Women Civically Engaged?Women & criminal justice · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Jailed women are four-five times more likely to have had cervical cancer compared to women without criminal justice histories. Previous research has shown that an important contributor to cervical cancer risk, and perhaps lack of follow-up, is incarcerated women's low health literacy about broader reproductive health issues. Little work has been done to address this disparity. Thus, the objective of this study was to test the effectiveness of an intervention to improve incarcerated women's cervical health literacy and ultimately address cervical cancer disparities. Using a waitlist control design, we compared changes in cervical health literacy (knowledge, beliefs, self-efficacy, and confidence for screening and follow-up) among 188 incarcerated women who completed a 10-hour intervention between 2014 and 2016 in three Kansas City jails. We used bivariate tests and multivariate analyses that controlled for baseline cervical health literacy level and key covariates. Women in the intervention group showed significant gains in seven out of eight cervical health literacy domains (all p < 0.01), whereas the control group only improved in one domain (p < 0.01). When controlling for covariates, the intervention group had less barriers, perceptions of seriousness, susceptibility to disease, and increased self-efficacy for cervical health screening and follow-up, compared to the control group (all p < 0.05). A brief intervention is an effective way to improve jailed women's cervical health literacy, but should be provided alongside systemic efforts that expand access to correctional preventive health services, including the human papillomavirus vaccine, community-based cancer screenings, and health insurance after women leave jails and transition back to communities.
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