The Latina Breast Cancer Screening Sacle: beliefs about breast cancer and breast cancer screening.
The Latina Breast Cancer Screening (LBCS) was developed to measure Latinas' culturally-shared health beliefs about breast cancer and breast cancer screening. A 60-item LBCS scale was tested with 288 participants and reduced to 35 items using principal components analyses. The 35-item LBCS scale and other measures were administered to a second sample of 147 participants to establish the scale's validity and reliability. A six-factor solution suggested six LBCS sub-scales. The LBCS in its entirety displayed strong internal consistency (alpha =.93) with adequate estimates of convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity. The LBCS scale appears to be a valid and reliable measure.
Clinical Health Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Denver, PO Box 173364, Denver 80217, USA. Evelinn.Borrayo@UCDenver.edu
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003120:Colorado; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*