Implementing Women's Cancer Screening Programs in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations

Strategies for Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening Amongst First Nations Communities in Northwest Ontario, Canada

“…This screening approach seems more "culturally sensitive" than the Pap test. In line with "cultural sensitivity" and as reported earlier by other groups from Australia (Reath & Carey, 2008) and the UnitedStates (Lantz et al, 2003;Smith, Christopher, LaFramboise, Letiecq, & McCormick, 2008), our community informants were adamant about the need for female rather than male health care providers. The role of health care providers in building trusting relationships cannot be emphasized enough.…”

“…The older women who seem to be the hard-to-reach group could also get gentle reminders by their younger family members. As also noted in a study from the United States (Lantz et al, 2003), we learned that role models could also be "Champions" who are cancer survivors and therefore have a story to tell.…”

Balancing Empiricism and Local Cultural Knowledge in the Design of Prevention Research

“…As such, CBPR has been employed in many recent AIAN prevention studies. [59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68] …”

Community-Based Participatory Research With Native American Communities: The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program

“…A literature review of CBPR with Native American communities showed that most published efforts to date have focused on substance abuse prevention and treatment (Ellis, 2004;Mohatt et al, 2004;Santiago-Rivera, Skawennio Morse, Hunt, & Lickers, 1998). Examples of CBPR with Native American communities can also be found in the areas of environmental health (Severtson, Baumann, & Will, 2002), breast cancer screening (Lantz et al, 2003), diabetes and obesity prevention (Davis & Reid, 1999;Satterfield et al, 2003), and suicide prevention (Fisher & Ball, 2002Jumper-Thurman, Plested, Edwards, Foley, & Burnside, 2004). Some publications discuss specific health outcomes of interventions whereas others focus on describing the processes by which CBPR approaches have been used.…”

“…Some publications discuss specific health outcomes of interventions whereas others focus on describing the processes by which CBPR approaches have been used. Lantz et al (2003) describe the efforts of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program to implement comprehensive cancer screening programs within tribal communities using a program model developed by state health departments. The researchers used participatory research processes, including key informant interviews and focus groups, to make the screening program more successful.…”