Salud es vida: development of a cervical cancer education curriculum for promotora outreach with Latina farmworkers in rural Southern Georgia.
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.
Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, 30460-8015, USA. jluque@georgiasouthern.edu
John S
JS
Luque
Mondi
M
Mason
Claudia
C
Reyes-Garcia
Andrea
A
Hinojosa
Cathy D
CD
Meade
D000328:Adult; D003150:Community Health Workers; D005260:Female; D005845:Georgia; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D017058:Mexican Americans; D008875:Middle Aged; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines; D010379:Peer Group; D012424:Rural Population; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000821:virology
D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines