They seldom receive adequate information about Pap tests and cervical cancer at clinics, and they feel shy about asking health providers questions.
Women feel less embarrassed in an informal gathering with other women.
Research with Farmworkers One of the great challenges of conducting research with migrant farmworkers is that they work long, late hours and never know how long they will be in a given state or county. A hurricane or drought can change everything. We were concerned that, because we were working with a highly diverse and mobile population working different types of crops in different states, we might not be able to identify an appropriate control group. We succeeded in identifying two groups of single males working in orchards in western North Carolina and West Virginia and used one of the groups as a control group for the skin cancer study. The control group design for the cervical cancer study worked less well because less emphasis was placed on its importance relative to the skin cancer study.