The Vietnamese Women's Health Project is a two-year research project. It investigates Vietnamese women's beliefs about the Pap smear and about cervical cancer and how those beliefs impact Pap smear screening behaviors.
Cervical cancer is a detectable and treatable disease that disproportionately affects Vietnamese women due, in part, to low rates of Pap smear screenings. Vietnamese women have a cervical cancer incidence rate and mortality rate that is twice as high as non-Hispanic white women. Results of the research will be used to develop a pilot intervention to increase awareness of cervical cancer and to increase rates of Pap smear screening in the Vietnamese community.
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