Communication Inequalities on HPV, Cervical Cancer, and the HPV Vaccine

关于 HPV、宫颈癌和 HPV 疫苗的沟通不平等

• 批准号: 7459190
• 负责人: HOWARD K. KOH
• 金额: $ 8.01万
• 依托单位: HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-06 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7459190
• 关键词: Address; Affect; African; Awareness; Behavior; Benefits and Risks; Boston; Breast; Caregivers; Communication; Communication Barriers; Communities; Community Hospitals; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Development; Diagnosis; Discrimination; Economics; Educational workshop; Exposure to; Face; Family; Focus Groups; Friends; Future; Goals; Health; Health Campaign; Health Services; Health Services Accessibility; Hearing; Human; Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine; Human Papillomavirus; Human papilloma virus infection; Image; Incidence; Individual; Inequality; Infection; Information Technology; Information and Media; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Mainstreaming; Malignant Neoplasms; Malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri; Mass Media; Massachusetts; Methods; Minority; Minority Groups; Patients; Perception; Personal Communication; Positioning Attribute; Preventive; Process; Provider; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Radio; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Safety; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Shapes; Source; Strategic Planning; Teaching Hospitals; Television; Time; Trust; Underserved Population; United States; Vaccination; Vaccines; Virus; Woman; Work; aged; base; cancer health disparity; cancer risk; community based participatory research; experience; girls; health disparity; member; minority health; mortality; outreach; prevent; racism; socioeconomics; vaccine safety

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research indicates that human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection that causes over 70% of cervical cancer cases, disproportionately affects Black women and women of African descent in the United States. Concomitantly, research shows that a "knowledge gap" exists, whereby Black women are significantly less likely to have heard of HPV than their White counterparts. Inadequate access to culturally appropriate health and cancer information may not only reduce racial/ethnic minority women's HPV awareness, but may hinder their abilities to utilize information to prevent and reduce HPV and cervical cancer risks. The proposed study will identify and document the communication needs around HPV infection and vaccination among low-socioeconomic position (SEP) Black women who are primary caregivers of young women and girls aged 7-20. Using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, we will work collaboratively with our community partner, Boston REACH 2010 Breast and Cervical Cancer Coalition (Boston REACH 2010 Coalition) to develop and conduct focus groups that will help to assess HPV and vaccination communication needs to raise community awareness. These activities should prove very useful in strategic communication and outreach with low -SEP Black women in Boston. Along with focus groups, we will systematically disseminate our findings to the Boston REACH 2010 partners, as well as the broader MassCONECT communities, through community-based workshops. The goal of this study is to identify and target HPV communication barriers for low-SEP racial/ethnic minority women in order to reduce HPV and cervical cancer health disparities among this group.

描述（由申请人提供）：研究表明，人乳头瘤病毒 (HPV) 是一种性传播感染，导致 70% 以上的宫颈癌病例，对美国黑人妇女和非洲裔妇女的影响尤为严重。与此同时，研究表明存在“知识差距”，即黑人女性听说过 HPV 的可能性明显低于白人女性。无法充分获取适合文化的健康和癌症信息不仅可能会降低种族/少数族裔妇女对 HPV 的认识，而且可能会妨碍她们利用信息预防和降低 HPV 和宫颈癌风险的能力。拟议的研究将确定并记录低社会经济地位 (SEP) 黑人女性关于 HPV 感染和疫苗接种的沟通需求，这些女性是 7-20 岁年轻女性和女孩的主要照顾者。 我们将采用基于社区的参与性研究 (CBPR) 方法，与社区合作伙伴波士顿 REACH 2010 乳腺癌和宫颈癌联盟 (Boston REACH 2010 Coalition) 合作，建立和开展焦点小组活动，帮助评估 HPV 和疫苗接种沟通需求，以提高社区意识。事实证明，这些活动对于波士顿低 SEP 黑人女性的战略沟通和外展非常有用。我们将与焦点小组一起，通过社区研讨会，系统地向 Boston REACH 2010 合作伙伴以及更广泛的 MassCONECT 社区传播我们的研究结果。 本研究的目的是确定并针对低 SEP 种族/少数民族女性的 HPV 传播障碍，以减少该群体之间的 HPV 和宫颈癌健康差异。