Barbers against prostate cancer: a feasibility study for training barbers to deliver prostate cancer education in an urban African American community.
The goal of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of training barbers to deliver a brief culturally and literacy appropriate prostate cancer educational intervention to urban African American men. Eight barbers received training to deliver a 2-month educational intervention in the barbershop and completed pre- and posttest training assessments. The training workshops led to a significant increase in mean prostate cancer knowledge scores among the barbers (60% before vs. 79% after; P < 0.05). The barbers also reported positively on the intervention in terms of satisfaction and relative ease of engaging clients. Training barbers to deliver a prostate cancer educational intervention is a feasible strategy for raising prostate cancer awareness of the disease among a priority population.
Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, P.O. Box 8015, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA. jluque@georgiasouthern.edu
John S
JS
Luque
Brian M
BM
Rivers
Maisha
M
Kambon
Ronald
R
Brookins
B Lee
BL
Green
Cathy D
CD
Meade
D001741:Black or African American; D001461:Barbering; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology*; D014505:Urban Population