title: Increasing prostate cancer screening in African American men with peer-educator and client-navigator interventions.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Few African American men participate in prostate cancer screening, although they have higher prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study documents the benefits of two educational methods; the peer-educator method and the client-navigator method, in increasing their participation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Sixty-one percent of the 1,211 African American men who received an educational program on prostate cancer participated in the free prostate cancer screening. Men who received the peer-educator method intervention, which included a testimony in support of prostate cancer screening given by an African American man, were more likely to participate, p = 0.04, than were men who received a standard educational program. Also, men who received the client-navigator method intervention, which included 1) a phone call aimed at overcoming screening barriers and 2) reminders for screening, were more likely to participate, p = 0.0001.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More African American men will participate in prostate cancer screening following the peer-education and client-navigator interventions.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208, USA.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Weinrich
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weinrich
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Metlin
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010379:Peer Group; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014481:United States