Psychosocial Correlates of Ever Having a Pap Test and Abnormal Pap Results in a Sample of Rural Appalachian Women

ConclusionsEducational efforts targeted in rural Appalachia would be supported by encouraging the benefits of early and consistent screening, altering the established norms of community fatalism and lack of personal control over prevention, and creating targeted messages through public campaigns that convince rural Appalachian women that cervical cancer is highly preventable and screenable.

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Source: The Journal of Rural Health - September 5, 2017 Category: Rural Health Authors: Kristen P. Mark, Richard A. Crosby, Robin C. Vanderpool Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research