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 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.
Choe
Sun
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Moores University of California, San Diego, Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA 92093-0850, USA.
Lim
Rod Seung-Hwan
RS
Clark
Karen
K
Wang
Regina
R
Branz
Patricia
P
Sadler
Georgia Robins
GR
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002140:California; D018592:Cross-Over Studies; D054521:Cultural Competency; D003638:Deafness / Q000150:complications*; D060345:Education of Persons with Hearing Disabilities; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012813:Sign Language; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control; D014741:Video Recording / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult