Nguyen Bang H, Pham Jane T, Chew Rilene A, McPhee Stephen J, Stewart Susan L, Doan Hiep T
Northern California Cancer Center, Fremont, California 94538, USA.
J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2010 May;21(2):568-81. doi: 10.1353/hpu.0.0290.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates are lower in Vietnamese Americans than in non-Hispanic Whites. Most Vietnamese Americans have ethnically concordant physicians and are willing to have CRC screening if their physicians recommend it. We conducted two continuing medical education (CME) seminars with participants recruited from the Vietnamese Physician Association of Northern California to increase their CRC screening knowledge. We used pre- and post-CME surveys to evaluate the CMEs and per-item McNemar's tests to assess changes in knowledge. Correct responses increased significantly from pre- to post-CME for all five items on CRC burden and four of 11 items on screening guidelines and practices at the first CME and for five of seven items on screening guidelines and practices at the second CME. Continuing medical education seminars were effective in increasing CRC screening knowledge among Vietnamese American physicians. This increase may lead to physicians' recommending and their patients' completing CRC screening tests.
越南裔美国人的结直肠癌（CRC）筛查率低于非西班牙裔白人。大多数越南裔美国人有族裔一致的医生，并且如果医生推荐，他们愿意接受CRC筛查。我们为从北加利福尼亚越南医生协会招募的参与者举办了两次继续医学教育（CME）研讨会，以增加他们对CRC筛查的知识。我们使用CME前后的调查问卷来评估CME，并使用逐项麦克尼马尔检验来评估知识的变化。在第一次CME中，关于CRC负担的所有五个项目以及关于筛查指南和实践的11个项目中的四个项目，以及在第二次CME中关于筛查指南和实践的七个项目中的五个项目，正确回答从CME前到CME后都有显著增加。继续医学教育研讨会有效地增加了越南裔美国医生对CRC筛查的知识。这种增加可能会导致医生推荐以及他们的患者完成CRC筛查测试。
