The purpose of this study is to determine whether a faith-placed lay health advisor intervention is effective in increasing use of Pap smears among middle-aged and older Appalachian women.
Project development relied on principles of community based participatory research. Participants were recruited from faith institutions in four distressed Appalachian Kentucky counties. Investigators at the University of Kentucky worked closely with local staff who implemented study procedures in the field.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
345
The focus of the intervention was on reducing participants' self-identified barriers to obtaining Pap tests.
Faith Moves Mountains
Whitesburg, Kentucky, United States
Proportion of participants self-reporting receipt of Pap test
This measure is obtained at multiple timepoints during the study, but as the primary outcome it will be analyzed at the timepoint one month following the Early Intervention group's completion of the intervention.
Time frame: One month post-intervention
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