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

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 kno...

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Published inJournal of cancer education Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 10 - 15
Main Authors Choe, Sun, Lim, Rod Seung-Hwan, Clark, Karen, Wang, Regina, Branz, Patricia, Sadler, Georgia Robins
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer-Verlag 01.01.2009
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
American Sign Language
Analysis of Variance
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
California
Cancer
Cancer Research
Cervical cancer
Control Groups
Cross-Over Studies
Cultural Competency
Data Analysis
Deafness
Deafness - complications
Education of Hearing Disabled
Educational Measurement
Educational Status
Female
Grade 5
Health Education
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Middle Aged
Pharmacology/Toxicology
Sign Language
Single-Blind Method
Surveys and Questionnaires
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - prevention & control
Video Recording - statistics & numerical data
Vocabulary Development
Young Adult
California
Deaf Community
Cancer Knowledge
American Sign Language
Deaf People
Cervical Cancer
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Summary: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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ISSN:0885-8195
1543-0154
DOI:10.1080/08858190802665245