Pilot Evaluation of a Health Promotion Program for African Immigrant and Refugee Women: The UJAMBO Program
Tóm tắt
The UJAMBO Program was a series of one session group workshops with Congolese and Somali women in the United States built around a DVD using African immigrant women's stories which provided basic information about mammography, pap smears and mental health services for trauma. The current study is an evaluation of the UJAMBO program addressing the impact on participants'knowledge of these health services and their intentions to use these services.
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