Using CBPR to Extend Prostate Cancer Education, Counseling, and Screening Opportunities to Urban-Dwelling African-Americans
| Autor: | Jarrett Johnson, John S. Luque, Stuart H. Tedders, Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, Levi Ross, Willie Underwood, Stacy W. Smallwood, Terry Alford |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Gerontology
Counseling Male medicine.medical_specialty Community-Based Participatory Research Urban Population Alternative medicine Participatory action research Article 03 medical and health sciences Prostate cancer 0302 clinical medicine Patient Education as Topic medicine Humans Built environment Early Detection of Cancer Medical education 030505 public health Cancer prevention business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Prostatic Neoplasms Citizen journalism medicine.disease United States Black or African American Health promotion Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Needs assessment 0305 other medical science business Needs Assessment |
| Zdroj: | Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education. 31(4) |
| ISSN: | 1543-0154 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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