title: Correlates of cervical cancer screening among Vietnamese American women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Vietnamese American women are at the greatest risk for cervical cancer but have the lowest cervical cancer screening rates. This study was to determine whether demographic and acculturation, healthcare access, and knowledge and beliefs are associated with a prior history of cervical cancer screening among Vietnamese women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Vietnamese women (n = 1450) from 30 Vietnamese community-based organizations located in Pennsylvania and New Jersey participated in the study and completed baseline assessments. Logistic regression analyses were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall levels of knowledge about cervical cancer screening and human papillomavirus (HPV) are low. Factors in knowledge, attitude, and beliefs domains were significantly associated with Pap test behavior. In multivariate analyses, physician recommendation for screening and having health insurance were positively associated with prior screening.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Understanding the factors that are associated with cervical cancer screening will inform the development of culturally appropriate intervention strategies that would potentially lead to increasing cervical cancer screening rates among Vietnamese women.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, College of Health Professions, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. grace.ma@temple.edu
authors.forename: Grace X
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Carolyn Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Ziding
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Yin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Wanzhen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Shaokui
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.forename: Cuc
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nguyen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001213:Asian; D001294:Attitude to Health; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009515:New Jersey; D010414:Pennsylvania; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology; D055815:Young Adult