Abstract
Facilitators and barriers to cervical cancer screening among 1.5 and 2nd-Generation Vietnamese-American women
Highlights
Despite knowledge of cervical cancer screening and prevention becoming more widespread in recent years, one demographic in particular continues to experience a major disparity with cervical cancer incidence
Knowledge of cervical cancer screening and prevention has become more prominently disseminated in recent years, Vietnamese American women continue to be disproportionately affected by cervical cancer incidence
Our exploratory study is the first study to target a sub-group of young Vietnamese-American women, of 1.5 and 2nd generation immigration status
Summary
Despite knowledge of cervical cancer screening and prevention becoming more widespread in recent years, one demographic in particular continues to experience a major disparity with cervical cancer incidence. According to early national data from the US Cancer Registry, cervical cancer prevalence in Vietnamese-Americans is the highest of any racial group (43 per 100,000); it is four times higher than all of the Asian groups combined and is more than double that of non-Hispanic white women [1,2]. It is not surprising that cervical cancer screening rates among Vietnamese- American women are among the lowest in the country. Researchers reported that only 55% of Vietnamese-American women had received a recent pap smear within the past 3 years [3]. This falls significantly short of the Healthy People 2020 goal for a cervical cancer screening rate of 93%. The overall screening rate among Asian-Americans is 70% and for non-Hispanic whites is 81% [4]
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