Chang Ellen T, Lin Steven Y, Sue Eric, Bergin Meredith, Su Jordan, So Samuel K S
Asian Liver Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
J Altern Complement Med. 2007 Dec;13(10):1125-7. doi: 10.1089/acm.2007.0655.
The annual Hepatitis B Prevention and Education Symposium aims to develop partnerships between non-Western and Western health care providers to prevent chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and death from liver cancer among Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs).
Each year from 2004 through 2007, we partnered with professional, academic, and community-based organizations to organize an educational symposium for Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners and acupuncturists in California. Participants completed pre- and postsymposium surveys assessing knowledge about HBV and liver cancer.
The symposia were held in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Stanford, California.
Over 1000 participants attended the four symposia combined; most were born in Asia.
Symposium activities included educational lectures and games, presentation of a physician's guide to HBV management, and case studies.
Chi-square tests were used to compare the proportion of correct responses to each knowledge-based question, as well as the total number of correct responses, before and after the symposium.
Knowledge about HBV and liver cancer was low prior to the symposium. The proportion of correct responses to the most commonly mistaken questions increased significantly at the conclusion of each symposium. The total number of correct responses rose from below 60% to above 75% each year.
Similar educational symposia targeting health care providers who serve API patients can improve HBV and liver cancer awareness and prevention throughout the API community.
年度乙肝预防与教育研讨会旨在促进非西方和西方医疗服务提供者之间的合作，以预防亚裔和太平洋岛民（API）中的慢性乙肝病毒（HBV）感染及肝癌导致的死亡。
从2004年至2007年，我们每年都与专业、学术和社区组织合作，为加利福尼亚州的中医从业者和针灸师组织一次教育研讨会。参与者在研讨会前后完成了评估有关HBV和肝癌知识的调查。
研讨会在加利福尼亚州的旧金山、洛杉矶和斯坦福举行。
超过1000名参与者参加了这四次研讨会；大多数人出生在亚洲。
研讨会活动包括教育讲座和游戏、发放一份医生HBV管理指南以及案例研究。
采用卡方检验比较研讨会前后对每个基于知识的问题的正确回答比例以及正确回答的总数。
在研讨会之前，对HBV和肝癌的了解程度较低。在每次研讨会结束时，对最常答错问题的正确回答比例显著增加。每年正确回答的总数从低于60%上升到高于75%。
针对为API患者提供服务的医疗服务提供者举办类似的教育研讨会，可以提高整个API社区对HBV和肝癌的认识及预防水平。
