Community Awareness Resources and Education - Project 1

Reducing Cervical Cancer in Appalachia

To increase early detection of cervical cancer by increasing the proportion of Appalachian women, age 18 and older, who receive Pap smears at appropriate intervals and return for follow-up care when necessary.

The overall goal of Project 1 is to increase early detection of cervical cancer by increasing the proportion of Appalachian women, age 18 and older, who receive Pap smears at appropriate intervals and return for follow-up care when necessary. The project was implemented in Appalachian Ohio, a mainly rural and underserved area with a population comprised of 1.5 million adults, aged 18 and older, and used community-based participatory research (CBPR) and community relationships already established in the area by Center investigators.

Inclusion Criteria:

• women age 18 and older

  • who have visited participating clinics during the last two years and
  • who consider themselves to be a current patient of that clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not a resident of the selected Ohio Appalachia county
• Under the age of 18