title: Validation of the English and Spanish Mammography Beliefs and Attitudes Questionnaire.
abstract: Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among Hispanic women in the United States. Unfortunately Hispanic women exhibit poor mammography screening participation, are diagnosed at later stages of the disease, and have lower survival rates than non-Hispanic white women. Several cultural and psycho-social factors have been found to influence mammography screening participation among Hispanic women. We will begin by presenting the theoretical framework that grounded this research program to develop an instrument to assess factors contributing to poor mammography participation among Hispanic women. We will also summarize the early stages in the development of the English and Spanish Mammography Beliefs and Attitudes Questionnaire (MBAQ and SMBAQ) for use with low-health-literacy Mexican-American women. Next we will describe the initial psychometric testing of the MBAQ/SMBAQ, after which we will present the psychometric testing of the SMBAQ with low-health-literacy women. This will be followed by a discussion of the modification of the MBAQ and SMBAQ subscales. We'll conclude with a discussion of the instruments and share our assessment regarding the limitations of this research program, where the program stands to date, and the implications for practice and future research.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Texas at El Paso, TX, USA. gmckee@utep.edu
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lopez-McKee
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bader
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000523:psychology*; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D055815:Young Adult
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