Community Health: Faculty Publications
Salud es Vida: Development of a Cervical Cancer Education Curriculum for Promotora Outreach with Latina Farmworkers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2011
Publication Title
American Journal of Public Health
DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2011.300324
ISSN
1541-0048
Abstract
We developed and evaluated a lay health worker curriculum intended to educate Hispanic farmworker women on cervical cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV), and the HPV vaccine. We pilot tested the curriculum in 2010 with 7 volunteer promotoras for readability, attractiveness, content, comprehension, cultural appropriateness, persuasion, structure and organization of lessons, balance between didactic and participatory activities, and ease of diffusion to community members. Peer-led cervical cancer prevention education is a practical option for low-income, Hispanic farmworker women in newer immigrant-receiving areas of the United States with fewer Spanish-speaking health professionals.
Recommended Citation
Luque, John S., Mondi Mason, Claudia Reyes-Garcia, Andrea Hinojosa, Cathy D. Meade.
2011.
"Salud es Vida: Development of a Cervical Cancer Education Curriculum for Promotora Outreach with Latina Farmworkers."
American Journal of Public Health, 101 (12): 2233-2235.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300324 pmid: 22021295
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