African-American (AA) women could be instrumental in communicating positive prostate screening behavior to the significant males in their lives.
However, little is known about AA women's prostate cancer attitudes, perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, intentions, behaviors, and knowledge regarding prostate cancer screening. This study describes the development and psychometric testing of the Eastland Prostate Cancer Survey (EPCS). A nonexperimental, correlational study with 200 AA women was used to test the psychometric properties of the six-subscale EPCS with 66 items. Construct validity, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability for the EPCS were acceptable and resulted in an eight-subscale EPCS with 56 items. Cronbach's alphas for the subscales ranged from 0.69 to 0.92. The EPCS is a culturally sensitive, gender-relevant instrument that could be used by community health providers to develop community health programs aimed at engaging AA women in the promotion of prostate cancer screening for AA men.
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Eastland TY, Dancy BL. Are you the author?
School of Nursing, Purdue University Calumet, 2200 169th Street, Hammond, IN, 46323, USA.
Reference: J Cancer Educ. 2013 Jan 4. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1007/s13187-012-0447-8
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23288607
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