Abstract
Background. Deaf women encounter barriers to accessing cancer information. In this study, we evaluated whether deaf women's knowledge could be increased by viewing a graphically enriched, American Sign Language (ASL) cervical cancer education video. Methods. A blind, randomized trial evaluated knowledge gain and retention. Deaf women (n = 130) completed questionnaires before, after, and 2 months after viewing the video. Results. With only a single viewing of the in-depth video, the experimental group gained and retained significantly more cancer knowledge than the control group. Conclusions. Giving deaf women access to the ASL cervical cancer education video (http://cancer.ucsd.edu/deafinfo) significantly increased their knowledge of cervical cancer.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors thank the following organizations that made the participant recruitment process possible: Gallaudet University; Deaf Community Services of San Diego, Inc. (DCS) in San Diego; Center on Deafness Inland Empire (CODIE) in Riverside; Orange County Deaf Equal Access Foundation (OC DEAF) in Cypress (Orange County); Deaf program with Disability Support Programs and Services at San Diego Mesa College in San Diego; the National Center on Deafness at California State University Northridge in Northridge; and the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc. (GLAD).
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Supported by The Alliance Healthcare Foundation, the California Endowment, the SIRA Medical-Student Aging Research Training Program; the National Cancer Institute grants R25 CA101317, R25 CA108731, R25 CA65745 and Cancer Center Core grant 5 P30 CA023100-22; the National Institutes of Health's Division of National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities EXPORT grant P60MD00220; and the Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership Program grants U56 CA92079 and U56 CA92081.