Hepatitis B virus outreach to immigrant population in Greater Boston Area: Key to improving hepatitis B knowledge

Figure 1 Perceived hepatitis B virus risk by country: responses to “How high is your risk for having hepatitis B infection, on a scale of 1 to 5?” In the pre session, 98 participants answered this question with a mean response score of 1. 33. In the post session, 53 participants answered and a mean response score of 3.13 was obtained. There is a statistically significant increase in the perceived risk of hepatitis B with ^aP value of < 0.05.

Figure 2 Responses to true/false questions. Participants were asked to answer a series of true/false questions prior to (Pre) and following (Post) the teaching session. The percentage of correct responses to true/false questions increased, following the teaching session, for all questions.