A church-based program on prostate cancer screening for African American men: Reducing health disparities

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 2 SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Husaini, Baqar A ^a   Reece, Michelle C ^a   Emerson, Janice S ^a   Scales, Samuel ^a   Hull, Pamela C ^a   Levine, Robert S ^b  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

African american men; Community based education; Culturally appropriate; Faith based; Health disparities; Informed decision making; Prostate cancer screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RELIGION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION;

EID: 52149104060     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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