title: Communication strategies to reduce cancer disparities: Insights from African-American mother-daughter dyads.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Mothers and daughters share a powerful and unique bond, which has potential for the dissemination of information on a variety of women's health issues, including the primary and secondary prevention of breast and cervical cancer. This study presents formative research from a long-term project examining the potential of mother-daughter communication in promoting cancer screening among African American women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-two mother-daughter pairs (N = 64) completed orally administered surveys regarding their cancer knowledge, beliefs and attitudes, and barriers to care. This study compares the attitudes and beliefs of low-income, urban, African American mothers and their adolescent daughters regarding cervical and breast cancer screening.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both mothers and daughters had fairly high levels of knowledge about breast and cervical cancer. In addition, there was a high concordance rate between mothers' and daughters' responses, suggesting a potential sharing of health knowledge between mother and daughter.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results have implications for selecting communication strategies to reduce health disparities, and support that the mother-daughter dyad could be a viable unit to disseminate targeted screening information. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Health, Virginia Commonwealth University.
authors.forename: Maghboeba
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mosavel
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Health, Virginia Commonwealth University.
authors.forename: Maureen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilson Genderson
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Health, Virginia Commonwealth University.
authors.forename: Katie A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Ports
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Health, Virginia Commonwealth University.
authors.forename: Kellie E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Carlyle
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D011203:Poverty; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*