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. 2024 Feb 29;8(1):138-142.
doi: 10.1089/heq.2023.0210. eCollection 2024.

My Health in My Hands: Improving Medication Abortion Knowledge and Closing Disparities with a Community-Led Media Intervention

Hayley V McMahon  1   2 , Leslie Serrano  1   2 , Teja Vyavahare  3 , Indya Hairston  3 , Sequoia Ayala  4 , Zainab Jah  5 , Tiffany Hailstorks  2   6 , Dázon D Diallo  3 , Elizabeth A Mosley  1   2   7
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My Health in My Hands: Improving Medication Abortion Knowledge and Closing Disparities with a Community-Led Media Intervention

Hayley V McMahon et al. Health Equity. .

Abstract

Purpose: Inaccurate beliefs about medication abortion (MA) are common. This study evaluated pilot data from a community-led media intervention designed to increase MA knowledge among Black and Latinx women in Georgia.

Methods: Participants (N=855) viewed the intervention video and completed pre-post surveys. Data were analyzed using linear and logistic regression.

Results: Knowledge scores significantly increased from 3.88/5.00 to 4.47/5.00. Participants who were Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander, multiracial, Black, <20 years old, and living in Georgia scored below the sample mean at baseline; however, nearly all disparities disappeared after intervention exposure.

Conclusions: This intervention effectively increased MA knowledge and narrowed racial/ethnic, age-based, and geographic disparities.

Keywords: community-based participatory research; community-led research; health literacy; medication abortion; reproductive justice.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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