Bartle-Haring Suzanne, Toviessi Paula, Katafiasz Heather
Department of Human Development and Family Science, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Womens Health Issues. 2008 Mar-Apr;18(2):100-9. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.01.002.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the decision to obtain individualized risk assessment (IRA) after a breast cancer education session.
A sample of both African American and Caucasian women was used to determine if there were differences by race/ethnicity in uptake of the assessment and differences in the variables that were most predictive of uptake. The sample included 166 women between the ages of 18 and 80. Sixty-two percent of the sample were African American women.
The results suggested that African American women and Caucasian women used different factors and used other factors differently to decide whether or not to obtain an IRA.
These results are discussed within the context of health disparities among ethnic minority and Caucasian women with implications for breast cancer control programs. The results of this study suggest that knowledge alone does not lead to opting for a personalized risk assessment, and that African American and Caucasian women use different pieces of information, or information differently to make decision about getting more personalized information about risk.
本研究旨在调查在参加乳腺癌教育课程后获取个性化风险评估（IRA）的决定因素。
采用非裔美国女性和白人女性样本，以确定种族/民族在接受评估方面是否存在差异，以及在最能预测接受情况的变量方面是否存在差异。样本包括166名年龄在18岁至80岁之间的女性。样本中62%为非裔美国女性。
结果表明，非裔美国女性和白人女性在决定是否获取IRA时使用不同的因素，且对其他因素的使用方式也不同。
在少数族裔和白人女性健康差异的背景下讨论了这些结果，对乳腺癌控制项目具有启示意义。本研究结果表明，仅靠知识并不能导致选择个性化风险评估，非裔美国女性和白人女性使用不同的信息或不同方式的信息来决定是否获取更多关于风险的个性化信息。
