TY - JOUR
T1 - An Interprofessional Approach to Training in Cervical Cancer Screening in a Low Resource Setting of Rural Haiti [12H]
AU - Mansour, Trina
AU - Tustison, Kimberly
AU - Debay, Marc
AU - Tran, Mai Linh
AU - Ngo, Anh Tuan
AU - Li, Angie
N1 - program. The first step consisted of a two-week workshop providing didactic and supervised clinical training to healthcare professionals. METHODS: A US-based interprofessional team developed a comprehensive curriculum focusing on visual inspection with acetic acid, cytology-based screening, colposcopy, cryotherapy and loop electrosurgical excisional procedure. 3 Ob/Gyns, 2 general practitioners, 3 nurse-midwives and 2 nurses were trained.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - INTRODUCTION: Cervical cancer continues to be a public health concern mostly affecting low-resource countries and has a high prevalence in Haiti, where no national prevention program exists. To address this gap, Hospital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) launched a cervical cancer screening and treatment program. The first step consisted of a two-week workshop providing didactic and supervised clinical training to healthcare professionals. METHODS: A US-based interprofessional team developed a comprehensive curriculum focusing on visual inspection with acetic acid, cytology-based screening, colposcopy, cryotherapy and loop electrosurgical excisional procedure. 3 Ob/Gyns, 2 general practitioners, 3 nurse-midwives and 2 nurses were trained. The course consisted of half-day didactic sessions and half-day supervised clinical practice sessions during the first week. The second week involved high-volume practice of skills. Pre-and post-tests were utilized during didactics, and clinical competency assessment were utilized at the end of each week. These tools will also be used during the 6-month follow-up evaluation. RESULTS: All trainees attended all didactic and clinical training sessions. They screened a total of 988 women. Based on the pre-and post-tests, trainees demonstrated an average increase of knowledge of cervical cancer screening by 9.5%. They all demonstrated satisfactory clinical competency by the end of the second week. CONCLUSION: Implementation of an interprofessional training event in a low-resource setting proved to be effective in teaching healthcare professionals to perform cervical cancer screening and treatment services on a clinically competent level. Results of the 6-month.
AB - INTRODUCTION: Cervical cancer continues to be a public health concern mostly affecting low-resource countries and has a high prevalence in Haiti, where no national prevention program exists. To address this gap, Hospital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) launched a cervical cancer screening and treatment program. The first step consisted of a two-week workshop providing didactic and supervised clinical training to healthcare professionals. METHODS: A US-based interprofessional team developed a comprehensive curriculum focusing on visual inspection with acetic acid, cytology-based screening, colposcopy, cryotherapy and loop electrosurgical excisional procedure. 3 Ob/Gyns, 2 general practitioners, 3 nurse-midwives and 2 nurses were trained. The course consisted of half-day didactic sessions and half-day supervised clinical practice sessions during the first week. The second week involved high-volume practice of skills. Pre-and post-tests were utilized during didactics, and clinical competency assessment were utilized at the end of each week. These tools will also be used during the 6-month follow-up evaluation. RESULTS: All trainees attended all didactic and clinical training sessions. They screened a total of 988 women. Based on the pre-and post-tests, trainees demonstrated an average increase of knowledge of cervical cancer screening by 9.5%. They all demonstrated satisfactory clinical competency by the end of the second week. CONCLUSION: Implementation of an interprofessional training event in a low-resource setting proved to be effective in teaching healthcare professionals to perform cervical cancer screening and treatment services on a clinically competent level. Results of the 6-month.
UR - http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Fulltext/10.1097/01.AOG.0000558751.28510.79
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/0f62a0c1-72b3-3923-ad69-5ea065aeef21/
U2 - 10.1097/01.AOG.0000558751.28510.79
DO - 10.1097/01.AOG.0000558751.28510.79
M3 - Meeting abstract
VL - 133
SP - 87S-87S
JO - Obstetrics Gynecology
JF - Obstetrics Gynecology
IS - 1
ER -