ArticleJournal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education2022
Focused Training of Community Health Volunteers on Cervical Cancer in Rural Kisumu.
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- Community-based interventions for non-communicable diseases in Africa: a scoping review of scope, effectiveness, and implementation factors.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Cervical Cancer Screening Uptake Among Women Attending Outpatient Department in a Rural District Hospital in Uganda. A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of women's health · 2025Article
- The East Africa Consortium for human papillomavirus and cervical cancer in women living with HIV/AIDS.Annals of medicine · 2022Review
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The cancer disease burden is higher in the low- and middle-income countries like Kenya where uptake of screening services is low. Community health volunteers (CHVs) have been shown to be effective in improving uptake of health services and could also be used in cervical cancer screening. However, they still have inadequate knowledge hindering effective public education. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of focused training of the CHVs on their knowledge on cervical cancer and screening uptake among women of reproductive age. This was a quasi-experimental study in rural sub-counties of Nyando and Nyakach. Nyando was the intervention arm with 186 CHVs and Nyakach the control with 239 CHVs. Participants' knowledge on cervical cancer was assessed using a self-administered questionnaire. CHVs in the intervention arm were trained about cervical cancer and screening. Knowledge was re-assessed following a 6-month public education period. The focused training improved the CHVs' knowledge on cervical cancer to 60.9% compared to 13.4% in the control arm (p = 0.004) at the end-line. The knowledge was dependent on the level of education (χ
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