Clinical trial · Interventional
Community-Based Cervical Cancer Prevention and Education Among Women Living With HIV
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The long-term goal is to build a sustainable, community-based outreach program to promote cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV (WLH), thereby reducing related morbidity and mortality. The strategy for achieving this goal is to develop an intervention incorporating health literacy approaches and principles of community-based participatory research. Health literacy is a relatively new concept that has been applied mainly toward identifying high-risk individuals rather than toward changing health behaviors and outcomes. The proposed intervention is the first to integrate health literacy into educating WLH to promote cervical cancer screening. Community Health Workers (CHW) support has also rarely been incorporated into cancer screening interventions targeting WLH, making the proposed intervention a uniquely comprehensive approach. Building on recent successful testing by the investigators of a health literacy-focused intervention to promote cervical cancer screening in recent immigrant women, the investigators will test whether health literacy-focused interventions delivered by trained CHWs will be effective in promoting health literacy and increasing Pap test rates in a new population, WLH. The investigators hypothesize that, compared to WLH in the control group, WLH who receive the health literacy-focused CHW intervention will demonstrate: (1) higher rates of Pap test, (2) greater levels of health literacy, (3) higher levels of cervical cancer knowledge, and (4) higher self-efficacy.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cervical Cancer | Malignant Cervical Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health-Literacy Focused Education Session | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- OTHER
- label
- Intervention Group
- description
- Intervention includes: Trained community health workers will deliver 1) 1.5-2 hour health literacy training offered in a group format at an approved community site that is most convenient to the majority of participants ; and 2) monthly phone follow-up and navigation assistance for 6 months. We will offer a Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) mobile app for participant's adolescent/young adult child (11-26 yrs), as an option rather than part of the standardized protocol. The app will be introduced at the end of the health literacy group training session for the intervention group; those who choose to download the app will be given a link with study specific password. They will be encouraged to go through the key HPV related contents with their children at home at a time that is most convenient for them.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Health-Literacy Focused Education Session
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control Group
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Completion of Pap test (medical records)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 65 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * HIV infection Able to read and write English 12+ months since Pap test Willing to provide written consent to allow the team to audit medical records for Pap test use Exclusion Criteria: * Had undergone a hysterectomy Pregnant
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