UCLA/RAND Prevention Research Center

摘要 拟议项目的目标是开发一种创新干预措施来传播健康信息 利用重点小组和调查研究方法，向识字能力有限、得不到充分服务的少数群体提供教育。 我们建议开发一个简单的易于阅读（<五年级可读性）和高度说明的干预， 乳腺癌和宫颈癌筛查，并进行一项试点随机试验，以检验假设， 建议的干预措施在提高乳腺癌和宫颈癌知识方面更有效， 比目前美国癌症协会和国家癌症研究所的一般筛查材料。这 该项目意义重大，因为它将改善代表性不足的人的健康相关知识和成果。 少数群体它也有可能使少数群体有能力传播信息，影响态度， 筛查，治疗和并发症，并与家人分享疾病相关信息， 同龄人，他们能够提供更好的社会和家庭支持。参与这项研究的人可能有 更好的癌症相关知识，提高生活质量。此外，它还为其他 未来的研究。

Abstract The objective of the proposed project is to develop an innovative intervention to disseminate health information to minority underserved populations with limited literacy skills using focus group and survey research methods. We propose to develop a simple easy to read (< fifth-grade readability) and highly illustrated intervention on breast and cervical cancer screening as well as to conduct a pilot randomized trial to test the hypothesis that the proposed intervention is more efficacious at improving breast and cervical cancer knowledge and screening than the current general American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute materials. This project is significant in that it will improve health related knowledge and outcomes for underrepresented minorities. It also has the potential to give minorities the ability to disseminate information, impact attitudes toward screening, treatment and complications, and share disease-related information with their families and peers, who are then able to lend better social and family support. Those who participate in this study may have better cancer related knowledge, and improved quality of life. In addition, it builds the groundwork for additional future studies.