title: Prostate cancer education in African American churches.
abstract: The use of churches as recruitment sites of African Americans into health promotion activities is a popular theme in the 1990s literature. This research measured the impact of previous exposure to cancer on participation in an educational program and a free prostate cancer screening. Cues to action from the Health Belief Model provided the conceptual framework. Over 500 men attended a prostate cancer educational program at their church. Men who participated in the educational program and completed the questionnaire were given a voucher that they could take to their doctor of choice for a free prostate cancer examination. Having a member of the congregation who was previously diagnosed with cancer was a significant cue to attendance at the educational program (P = 0.03). Recommendations for future cancer screening in churches are given.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Weinrich
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Holdford
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Creanga
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cover
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Frank-Stromborg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weinrich
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010327:Pastoral Care; D018579:Patient Selection; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011637:Public Health Nursing; D013022:South Carolina; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires