Cervical Cancer Screening: Exploring Appalachian Patients' Barriers to Follow-up Care

Overview

Journal Soc Work Health Care

Publisher Routledge

Specialties Health Services
Social Sciences

Date 2014 Feb 4

PMID 24483330

Citations 11

Authors

Gretchen E Ely

Carol White

Kate Jones

Frances Feltner

Maria Gomez

Brent Shelton

Stacey Slone

Emily Van Meter

Christopher DeSimone

Nancy Schoenberg

Mark Dignan

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Abstract

This article describes a community-based Patient Navigation (PN) project conducted to identify potential barriers to seeking follow-up cervical cancer care in southeastern Kentucky. Patient navigators (PNs) were placed in cervical cancer programs within county public health departments where they interviewed patients about their perceived barriers to seeking follow-up care after receiving a positive Pap test result. Participants identified various potential barriers at three levels: the individual/personal level, the health care system level and the community/environmental level. One identified barrier that was unique to this study was a lack of consistency between follow-up recommendations and follow-up guidelines for patients under age 21. Implications are discussed.

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