Pilot Evaluation of a Health Promotion Program for African Immigrant and Refugee Women: The UJAMBO Program

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 219-223 - 2012
Linda Piwowarczyk1, Hillary Bishop2, Kelley Saia3, Sondra Crosby3, Francine Tshiwala Mudymba4, Nimo Ibrahim Hashi5, Anita Raj2
1Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
2Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
3Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
4Congolese Women’s Association of New England, Lynn, USA
5Somali Development Center, Boston, USA

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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