Assessing an intervention to improve clinical trial perceptions among predominately African-American communities in South Carolina

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 249-263

  Ford, Marvella ^a   Wahlquist, Amy ^a   Blake, Rashell ^b   Green, Codanielle ^c   Streets, June ^d   Fuller, Ebonie ^c   Johnson, Erica ^a   Jefferson, Melanie ^a   Etheredge, James ^a   Varner, Heidi ^e   Johnson, Shannon ^e   Glover, Saundra ^f   Turner, David ^a   Garrett Mayer, Elizabeth ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b VOORHEES COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e South Carolina Cancer Alliance ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Clinical trials; Knowledge; Perceptions; Underrepresentation

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA;

EID: 84867840503     PISSN: 15570541     EISSN: 1557055X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2012.0038     Document Type: Article

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