Using a Community-based Participatory Approach to Reduce Disparities in Cervical Cancer Prevention, Screening, and Diagnosis Among Hispanic Women in Cleveland
Using a Community-based Participatory Approach to Reduce Disparities in Cervical Cancer Prevention, Screening, and Diagnosis Among Hispanic Women in Cleveland
This study offers Hispanic women who are eligible for cervical cancer screening residing in the Cleveland metropolitan area one of two possible community outreach-based cervical cancer screening modalities, self-collection home HPV test or clinic-based pap test, which is the current standard of care, to assess if these strategies improve cervical cancer screening rates in this population group.
This study is an observational community outreach-based feasibility study. The study intervention that is being evaluated includes two different strategies of cervical cancer screening: 1) a self-collection home HPV test and 2) an in-office pap test. Study subjects who choose the self-collection home HPV test will be provided with the following materials: 1) research information sheet that explains the study objective, the expected timeline of the results, 2) a letter recommending a routine pap test regardless of whether they chose to complete the self-sampling HPV test, 3) educational materials on how to self-collect and return a sample, and 4) a FDA-approved self-sampling kit. Self-collected samples will be tested by the FDA-approved procedure. Study subjects will be asked to choose the screening method of their preference: a self-collection HPV testing kit at home and return the kit within 1 month to the study team or a pap test at a local clinic, which is scheduled within a month. The at-home test only includes vaginal swab and not collection from the cervix. The study team will be notified of the results of HPV test or of pap test and inform the study subjects. If the study subject reports the study team of the loss of her home HPV test kit, it will be recorded as a study outcome of "loss of home HPV test kit". Study subjects who do not return their HPV test kit within 4 weeks will receive 3 reminder calls within a week.
Study subjects who choose an in-office pap test will be scheduled for an annual gynecological exam that includes a pap test at a local clinic that the participant prefers by the study team. The standard-of-care in gynecology at the local clinic involves annual gynecological exam. Study subjects who choose an in-office pap test will receive two appointment reminder calls by the study team a week and three days prior to the scheduled appointment, respectively. No returning of the self-sampling home HPV kit and no show to the scheduled appointment for pap test will be recorded as study outcomes, and these study subjects will be considered enrolled in the study.
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