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The impact of cervical cancer education for deaf women using a video educational tool employing American Sign Language, open captioning, and graphics

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Background. Deaf women encounter barriers to accessing cancer information. In this study, we evaluated whether deaf women’s knowledge could be increased by viewing a graphically enriched, American Sign Language (ASL) cervical cancer education video. Methods. A blind, randomized trial evaluated knowledge gain and retention. Deaf women (n=130) completed questionnaires before, after, and 2 months after viewing the video. Results. With only a single viewing of the in-depth video, the experimental group gained and retained significantly more cancer knowledge than the control group. Conclusions. Giving deaf women access to the ASL cervical cancer education video (http://cancer.ucsd.edu/deafinfo) significantly increased their knowledge of cervical cancer.

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  1. San Diego (UCSD Cancer Center, Moores University of California, La Jolla, CA

    Sun Choe BA, MD, Rod Seung-Hwan Lim BS, Karen Clark MS, Regina Wang MD, Patricia Branz BS & Georgia Robins Sadler BSN, MBA, PHD (Clinical Professor of Surgery, Associate Director of Community Outreach)

  2. UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA

    Sun Choe BA, MD, Rod Seung-Hwan Lim BS, Regina Wang MD & Georgia Robins Sadler BSN, MBA, PHD (Clinical Professor of Surgery, Associate Director of Community Outreach)

  3. Rebecca and John Moores, UCSD Cancer Center, 9500 Gilman Drive #0850, 92093-0850, La Jolla, CA

    Georgia Robins Sadler BSN, MBA, PHD (Clinical Professor of Surgery, Associate Director of Community Outreach)

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Supported by The Alliance Healthcare Foundation, the California Endowment, the SIRA Medical-Student Aging Research Training Program; the National Cancer Institute grants R25 CA101317, R25 CA108731, R25 CA65745 and Cancer Center Core grant 5 P30 CA023100-22; the National Institutes of Health’s Division of National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities EXPORT grant P60MD00220; and the Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership Program grants U56 CA92079 and U56 CA92081.

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Choe, S., Lim, R.SH., Clark, K. et al. The impact of cervical cancer education for deaf women using a video educational tool employing American Sign Language, open captioning, and graphics. J Canc Educ 24, 10–15 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1080/08858190802665245

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