title: The impact of cervical cancer education for deaf women using a video educational tool employing American sign language, open captioning, and graphics.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Moores University of California, San Diego, Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA 92093-0850, USA.
authors.forename: Sun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Choe
authors.forename: Rod Seung-Hwan
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Branz
authors.forename: Georgia Robins
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Sadler
mesh_terms: 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