title: Differential Effects of Social Networks on Mammography Use by Poverty Status.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examines whether social networks have differential effects on mammography use depending on poverty status.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were analyzed on US women (40+), employing logistic regression and simple slope analyses for a post hoc probing of moderating effects.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among women not in poverty, living with a spouse/partner and attending church, regardless of frequency, were positively associated with mammography use; family size was negatively associated. Among women living in poverty, mammography showed a positive association only with weekly church attendance. Mammography was negatively associated with health-related social interactions occurring through the Internet. Post hoc probing showed significant moderating effects of poverty on the relationship between online health-related interactions and mammography use.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To make the Internet a meaningful health empowerment tool for women in poverty, future research should identify how health-related interactions that occur online affect women in poverty's psychological and behavioral reactions that will contribute to our understanding of why they are discouraged from having mammograms. The mechanisms behind the differential effects of church attendance and poverty status on mammography also need further clarification.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Work, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA. yyeo@stcloudstate.edu.
authors.forename: Younsook
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yeo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D060756:Social Networking; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States