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Community Health Outreach to Increase Cervical Cancer Education and Self-Collection Screening Program for Karenni and Hmong Women in Wisconsin, the CHOICESS Study

Trial Status: administratively complete

This clinical trial investigates whether educational workshops paired with self-collected human papillomavirus (HPV) screening works in improving cervical cancer screening rates in Karenni and Hmong women in Wisconsin. Karenni and Hmong immigrant women in the United States have low rates of cervical cancer screening. Factors such as modesty, fatalism, lack of knowledge, and lack of access are barriers to screening and treatment for cervical cancer. Offering a method for women to self-collect samples for HPV screening may help improve cervical cancer screening rates in Karenni and Hmong women.