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

Gretchen E. Ely; Carol White; Kate Jones; Frances Feltner; Maria Gomez; Brent Shelton; Stacey Slone; Emily Van Meter; Christopher DeSimone; Nancy Schoenberg; Mark Dignan

doi:10.1080/00981389.2013.827149

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

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-95
Number of pages	13
Journal	Social Work in Health Care
Volume	53
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2013.827149
State	Published - Feb 2014

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This research was supported by the National Cancer Institute R01 CA120606.

Keywords

Appalachian patients
cervical cancer
follow-up care
pap test
patient navigators

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Community and Home Care
Psychiatry and Mental health

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