title: Using CBPR to Extend Prostate Cancer Education, Counseling, and Screening Opportunities to Urban-Dwelling African-Americans.
abstract: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is becoming one of the dominant approaches for bringing evidence- and consensus-based cancer prevention and control practices to medically underserved communities. There are many examples of how CBPR has been useful for generating culturally specific solutions for different health issues that affect African-Americans. However, few examples exist in the literature on how the CBPR approach can be applied to address prostate cancer. This paper describes a collaborative process for linking inner-city, African-American men to free prostate cancer education, physician counseling, and screening opportunities (prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and digital rectal examination (DRE)). The site of this community-based participatory project was the city of Buffalo, located in Erie County, New York. The collaborative, community-academic process that is described includes the following: (1) planning and conducting a community needs assessment to contextualize local prostate cancer issues, (2) organizing town and gown event planning, and (3) manipulating aspects of the built environment to build an infrastructure within the community to address disparities in screening opportunities. This paper concludes with a description of lessons learned that can help others develop and implement similar activities in other communities.
authors.affiliation: Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8015, Statesboro, GA, 30460-8015, USA. lross@georgiasouthern.edu.
authors.forename: Levi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.affiliation: Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8015, Statesboro, GA, 30460-8015, USA.
authors.forename: Jarrett
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8015, Statesboro, GA, 30460-8015, USA.
authors.forename: Stacy W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Smallwood
authors.affiliation: Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Public Health Sciences, Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, SC, 29445, USA.
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Luque
authors.affiliation: Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8015, Statesboro, GA, 30460-8015, USA.
authors.forename: Stuart H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Tedders
authors.affiliation: College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, 219D Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Collins O
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Airhihenbuwa
authors.affiliation: Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA.
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Alford
authors.affiliation: Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA.
authors.forename: Willie
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Underwood
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003376:Counseling; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: African-Americans; CBPR; Prostate cancer