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Ovarian Cancer: Deaf and Hearing Women’s Knowledge Before and After an Educational Video

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Members of the Deaf community report language and cultural barriers to accessing health information and care. This study evaluated whether an ovarian cancer education video in American Sign Language with English captioning and voice-over could close the anticipated knowledge gap between Deaf and hearing women’s cancer knowledge. Consented Deaf (n = 55) and hearing (n = 52) women’s General, Ovarian, and Total Cancer Knowledge were assessed before and after viewing the video. At baseline, hearing women demonstrated significantly higher General, Ovarian, and Total Cancer Knowledge scores than Deaf women. By the post-test, all of Deaf women’s knowledge scores had increased, closing the baseline gap. However, hearing women’s post-video knowledge had also increased, thereby creating a new knowledge gap. The ovarian cancer education video offers an effective method to increase ovarian and general cancer knowledge for Deaf and hearing women.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the following sources of support for this study: NIH R25CA101317; NIH R25CA108731; the California Endowment; Alliance Healthcare Foundation 99–99; The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, San Diego Affiliate Grant Award; UCSD Academic Senate Grant; NIH 5P30CA023100; NIH U56CA92079/U56CA92081; 1U54CA132379/1U54CA132384; NIH/NCMHD 5P60MD000220; and NIH 5R25CA65745. This project was created by an educational partnership consisting of the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc., Bovee Productions, the National Association for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University. The authors would also like to thank the Deaf and hearing women who consented to be in this study, Wanda van der Vloedt, MD, for her help with database set-up and data entry, and Adrienne Kennedy, an undergraduate intern, for her assistance with this paper.

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  1. School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Lindsay G. Jensen, Nick Gallegos & Georgia Robins Sadler

  2. Moores UCSD Cancer Center, 3855 Health Science Dr, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0850, USA

    Lindsay G. Jensen, Melanie Nakaji, Nick Gallegos, Vanessa L. Malcarne & Georgia Robins Sadler

  3. Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA, 92182, USA

    Kadie M. Harry & Vanessa L. Malcarne

  4. SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, 6363 Alvarado St, Suite 103, San Diego, CA, 92120-4913, USA

    Vanessa L. Malcarne & Georgia Robins Sadler

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Jensen, L.G., Nakaji, M., Harry, K.M. et al. Ovarian Cancer: Deaf and Hearing Women’s Knowledge Before and After an Educational Video. J Canc Educ 28, 647–655 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-013-0529-2

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