Cervical Cancer — Sexual Health Empowerment for Cervical Health Literacy and Cancer Prevention
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Emerson AM Narrative Inquiry Into Shelter-Seeking by Women With a History of Repeated Incarceration: Research and Nursing Practice Implications. ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 2018 Jul/Sep;41(3):260-274. doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000216.
Emerson AM Strategizing and Fatalizing: Self and Other in the Trauma Narratives of Justice-Involved Women. Qual Health Res. 2018 May;28(6):873-887. doi: 10.1177/1049732318758634. Epub 2018 Feb 24.
Kelly PJ, Emerson A, Fair C, Ramaswamy M Assessing fidelity: balancing methodology and reality in jail interventions. BMC Womens Health. 2018 Jul 23;18(1):127. doi: 10.1186/s12905-018-0617-x.
Kelly PJ, Hunter J, Daily EB, Ramaswamy M Challenges to Pap Smear Follow-up among Women in the Criminal Justice System. J Community Health. 2017 Feb;42(1):15-20. doi: 10.1007/s10900-016-0225-3.
Kelly PJ, Ramaswamy M Closing the cervical cancer disparity gap. Public Health Nurs. 2017 May;34(3):195-196. doi: 10.1111/phn.12336.
Ramaswamy M, Kelly PJ "The Vagina is a Very Tricky Little Thing Down There": Cervical Health Literacy among Incarcerated Women. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2015 Nov;26(4):1265-85. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2015.0130. Erratum in: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2016;27(1):viii.
Ramaswamy M, Lee J, Wickliffe J, Allison M, Emerson A, Kelly PJ Impact of a brief intervention on cervical health literacy: A waitlist control study with jailed women. Prev Med Rep. 2017 Apr 5;6:314-321. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.04.003. eCollection 2017 Jun. Erratum in: Prev Med Rep. 2017 Dec 06;8:303-305.
Ramaswamy M, Simmons R, Kelly PJ The development of a brief jail-based cervical health promotion intervention. Health Promot Pract. 2015 May;16(3):432-42. doi: 10.1177/1524839914541658. Epub 2014 Jul 25.
Sexual Health Empowerment for Cervical Health Literacy and Cancer Prevention
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