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What Made A Successful Hepatitis B Prevention Program: Educational Intervention, Infection Status, And Missing Responses Of At-Risk Asian Americans, Chiehwen Ed Hsu, Guangyu Zhang, Alice F Yan
What Made A Successful Hepatitis B Prevention Program: Educational Intervention, Infection Status, And Missing Responses Of At-Risk Asian Americans, Chiehwen Ed Hsu, Guangyu Zhang, Alice F Yan
Chiehwen Ed Hsu
Asian Americans, compared with other racial/ethnic groups, are disproportionately affected by Hepatitis B disease. The literature suggests that knowledge and awareness of prevention strategies such as receiving hepatitis B screening and vaccination are potential factors associated with occurrence of hepatitis B and liver cancer, while it is unclear how baseline characteristics relate to these effective hepatitis B prevention strategies. In the study, five Asian-American groups in the state of Maryland completed self-administered pre- and post-test after receiving lectures on hepatitis B prevention, and participated in blood screening for Hepatitis B. T-test and one-way ANOVA were used to explore the differences …