Date of Award
Spring 2022
Degree Type
Open Access Dissertation
Degree Name
Public Health, DPH
Program
School of Community and Global Health
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Jessica DeHart
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Deborah Freund
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Bin Xie
Terms of Use & License Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Rights Information
© 2022 Murielle S Ngoumkam
Keywords
Epidemiology, Health care management, Public health, Public health education
Subject Categories
Epidemiology | Public Health
Abstract
To include all vulnerable women population who faced barriers to participating in preventive cervical cancer screening, the public health community must better understand the factors that affect their decision for getting Pap and HPV tests. Public health must understand the sexual violence victims, a subgroup of women who faced the onset of trauma and explore their adherence to routine screening. This study investigated whether sexual women with a history of sexual violence (SV), likelihood to get screened for cervical cancer would be impacted given the fear of suffering from secondary trauma during conventional screening procedures. Methods: Knowledge of cervical screening tests, and the prevalence of victims who indicated being afraid of getting flashbacks from past trauma, participation in Pap and HPV test was estimated using the 2018 BRFSS national survey. Connecticut and New Mexico were datasets used and major predictors in multivariable logistic regressions analyzing the odds of history of sexual violence trauma and cervical cancer screening.
ISBN
9798802717615
Recommended Citation
Sighe Ngoumkam, Murielle. (2022). Papanicolaou (Pap) Test and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test Adherence: Sexual Violence Victims and Fear of Retraumatization. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 387. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/387.
