title: Increasing cervical cancer screening in a Hispanic migrant farmworker community through faith-based clinical outreach.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Partnerships between academic medical centers and faith-based community organizations have been associated with increased screening rates in low-income minority women. We describe clinical outcomes of an outreach partnership between a cancer center and a faith-based outreach clinic offering gynecologic screening services in central Florida to increase cervical cancer screening adherence in a priority population of primarily Hispanic farmworker women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data sources included a retrospective chart review. This descriptive study examined patterns of cervical cancer screening behavior among the patient population of the faith-based outreach clinic.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings suggest that among this group of patients, the demographic factors that predict adherence with cervical cancer screening recommendations are number of years having lived in the United States and marital status. Women residing in the United States for more than 5 years were significantly more adherent with cervical cancer screening recommendations compared with women who have resided in the United States for 5 years or less (p = .05), and married women were more likely to be adherent than unmarried women (p = .02).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The partnership was successful in increasing cervical cancer screening adherence in this medically underserved population. When enabling barriers to screening adherence are removed through faith-based clinical outreach and engaged continuously for a number of years, uninsured, low-income Hispanic women are more likely to receive recommended preventive services.
authors.affiliation: Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA. jluque@georgiasouthern.edu
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Luque
authors.forename: Dinorah Martinez
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Tyson
authors.forename: Talar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Markossian
authors.forename: Ji-Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Proctor
authors.forename: Janelle
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Menard
authors.forename: Cathy D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Meade
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D000328:Adult; D000383:Agriculture; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult