• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.79-92
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• 2008

Purpose: Recommendation for regular Pap test in the past 3 years as a cue to action affects on an increased likelihood of receiving a cervical cancer screening in that period. This study performed to estimate the association with healthcare access, healthcare provider status, and physician recommendation for Pap test in the past 3 years among Korean American women. Method: Korean Health survey was carried out in 2002. These population-based telephone surveys were conducted with Korean American women who resided in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, California (n=865). We preformed multiple logistic regression analyses to estimate predictors of physician recommendation for Pap test by SAS 8.2. Results: Korean women in two California Counties were 37.9% who received physician recommendation for Pap test in the past 3 years. The predictors on physician recommendation for Pap test in the past 3 years were health insurance coverage, visiting number to doctor in the past year, and healthcare provider status. For healthcare access, no matter who had enrolled in public or private health insurances, the women were more likely to get the recommendation for Pap test from their regular healthcare provider. Particularly, for ethnicity of healthcare provider, the women were more likely to get the recommendation for Pap test from non-Korean female doctors (OR=6.21, 95% CI=2.63, 14.66), Korean male doctors (OR=2.19, 95% CI=1.30, 3.68), and non-Korean male doctors (OR=2.07, 95% CI=1.15, 3.71). Conclusion: (삭제) Effect of healthcare access and healthcare provider status on recommendation for Pap test among Korean American women in two California Counties would contribute to our understanding of developing strategies to promote adherence of Pap test and reduce morbidity and mortality far cervical cancer among Korean American women in the U.S.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.23-37
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• 2007

Background: Even though cervical cancer poses a significant global cancer burden, successful implementations for early detection offer an opportunity to prevent deaths and reduce the cancer burden. In Korea, cervical cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer among adult women, but it is one of the few cancers in which a consensus-approved screening test exists for early diagnosis, Pap test, that can be combined with highly efficacious treatment regimens for early-stage disease. Purpose: This study was carried out to identify the cognitive-behavioral factors associated with cervical cancer screening behavior among adult women, aged 40 to 59, and to develop tailored messages and to evaluate the effectiveness of stage-matched educational program. Method: A total of 283 women who aged 40 years or older was recruited in Seoul, from September, 1st to November, 14th, 2003. The intervention group (N=162) and the control group (N=121) were selected from five sub-districts in Seocho-gu, Seoul. Building on the TTM, a quasi-experimental study was conducted to test the effectiveness of stages-matched intervention addressed at the five stages of cervical cancer screening behavior. Women in the intervention group were randomly assigned to one of two conditions, internet or postal services. Results: In our results, 88.9% of participants had received a Pap test at least once in their life-time, and 65.4% had got it in the past two years. With regard to cognitive-behavioral factors, the stages-matched educational program increased attitude and process of change for cervical cancer screening. The percentage changed was the largest in maintenance stage. With regard to delivery methods for tailored messages, the print materials were more effective at increasing screening adherence than the e-mail. Whereas the postal service group showed remarkable the change of behavior stage, the internet service group did not. Also it was not shown any difference of the satisfaction with stages-matched educational program between internet and postal service groups. Conclusion: This study suggested that cervical cancer screening behavior could be changed by tailored messages which had developed with cognitive-behavioral factors. The stages-matched educational program was effective to promote the screening adherence for cervical cancer.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.129-138
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate the most cost-effectiveness screening strategies for cervical cancer in Korea. We calculated the age-specific cervical cancer incidence rate from Korea Central Cancer Registry (2003), and then estimated the schedule sensitivity, detection probability, and screening and confirmative costs of each screening strategy based on the stochastic process (Lee and Zelen, 1998). The efficiency of the screening strategy was evaluated by incremental cost-effectiveness analysis. The most effective strategy was every 3 years pap smear test between the age of 35 and 65 years in the cervical cancer screening. The findings of this study will be helpful to evaluate efficiency of cancer screening strategies, and to provide the theoretical background of development and assessment of early detection of cancer in Korea.

• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.214-222
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• 2009

Objectives: This study was performed to evaluate the effect of navigator education program for cancer screening, which is designed for improvement in knowledge of cancer, perceived self efficacy and communication skill of the breast and cervical cancer screening for middle-aged and aged women in urban areas. Cancer screening navigator is lay health advisor who are educated for providing information, emotional support about cancer screening at the community. Methods: The subjects were 33 women at the age of 40-69 and educated for 12 hours through the education program. The control group subjects were 30 women. For statistical analysis, descriptive statistics and paired t-test were used with SPSS WIN 14.0. Results: Contents of education program were case of cancer early detection, benefit of breast cancer screening, benefit of cervical cancer screening, health care system for cancer screening, role of cancer screening navigator, communication skill, transtheoretical model and role play. Knowledge of cancer(t=4.267, p=0.000) and communication skill(t=4.947, p=0.000) of the women increased significantly after implementing the 12 hours education program. Conclusion: The results suggest that navigator education for cancer screening has an effect in increasing knowledge of cancer, and communication skill scores.

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.375-375
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• 2001

• 건강소식
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• v.26 no.2 s.279
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• pp.6-13
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• 2002

세계에서 매년 약 1,000만명의 새로운 암환자가 발생하고 있으며, 650만명이 암으로 사망하고 있다. 우리나라에서도 매년 약 85,000명의 새로운 암환자가 등록되고 있으며, 55,000명이 암으로 사망하고 있다. 이는 우리나라 전체 사망자의 20%를 차지하는 수치로서 사망원인으로는 단연 1위에 해당한다. 이처럼 암 발생과 암으로 인한 사망이 급격하게 증가함에 따라 암을 일으키는 원인인자를 밝히고 이러한 원인을 제거하여 암을 예방하려는 노력들이 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 실제로 몇몇 암의 경우에는 그 발생 원인들이 일부 밝혀지고 있는데, 대표적으로 금연을 통하여 폐암의 발생을 예방하고 간염백신 접종을 통해 간암을 예방하는 경우 등이다. 한편, 세계보건기구에서는 의학적인 관점에서 암 발생인구 가운데 1/3은 예방가능하고, 1/3은 조기진단만 되면 완치가 가능하며, 나머지 1/3의 환자도 적절한 치료를 한다면 완치가 가능한 것으로 보고하고 있다. 특히 우리나라에서 가장 흔한 위암, 유방암, 자궁경부암, 대장암 등은 조기에 발견할 경우 거의 완치가 가능하기 때문에, 이러한 암들에 대해서 정기적으로 검진을 실시할 겨우 암으로 인한 사망을 상당수 줄일 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 이에 정부는 2002년부터 저소득층을 대상으로 위암, 유방암, 자궁경부암에 대해 조기검진을 무료로 실시하고 있으며, 암 예방 교육 및 홍보를 통하여 국민들에게 암에 대한 정확한 지식과 조기검진의 중요성을 전달하고, 나아가 생활양식의 변화를 유도하여 암을 예방하도록 하는 마스터플랜을 추진하고 있다.

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.378-378
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• 2001

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.487-488
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• 2002

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.239-239
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• 2001

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.240-241
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• 1999