title: Development of the men's prostate awareness church training: church-based workshops for African American men.
abstract: This article describes the development of a spiritually based intervention to increase informed decision making for prostate cancer screening through African American churches. The intervention used spiritually themed health messages, incorporated women as supportive health partners, and included a health information technology component. The Men's Prostate Awareness Church Training Project followed a community-based participatory research process to develop educational materials, and training for 40 community health advisors to implement the 4-part prostate health workshop series that will be implemented in 20 churches. Implications are discussed for designing culturally relevant interventions to reduce prostate cancer disparities impacting African American men.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral and Community Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. saunders@umd.edu
authors.forename: Darlene R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Saunders
authors.forename: Cheryl L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Holt
authors.forename: Tony L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Whitehead
authors.forename: Nancy L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Atkinson
authors.forename: Daisy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Le
authors.forename: Min Qi
authors.initials: MQ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jimmie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Slade
authors.forename: Bettye
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Muwwakkil
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naslund
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016730:Program Development; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D029181:Spirituality; D014481:United States