Hart Alton, Underwood Sandra M, Smith Wally R, Bowen Deborah J, Rivers Brian M, Jones Randy A, Parker Dennis, Allen Johnnie Chip
Massey Cancer Center, Richmond, VA, USA.
J Natl Med Assoc. 2008 Sep;100(9):1012-20. doi: 10.1016/s0027-9684(15)31437-1.
Prostate cancer is the most common cause of cancer in men and the second leading cause of cancer deaths. African-American men bear a disproportionate burden of prostate cancer diagnosis and mortality. Current guidelines for prostate cancer screening differ among various medical organizations. Therefore, it is important that African-American men have the appropriate information needed to make informed decisions about prostate cancer screening. Unfortunately, a large percentage of African-American men could potentially be excluded from receiving culturally appropriate prostate cancer education. Therefore, a study was designed to recruit and intervene with African-American men and barbershops for increasing prostate cancer screening decision-making. The purpose of this study was to learn effective strategies for recruiting African-American barbershops for prostate cancer education and to determine barbershop proprietors' willingness to allow their barbershops to be used for research. In this paper, we present the outcomes of our recruitment methods for African-American barbershops, including a comparative description of participating and nonparticipating barbershops using the iMark Data System. One-hundred percent of the surveyed proprietors reported that they would allow their clients to learn about prostate cancer. Ninety-six percent reported they would consider allowing their clients to have access to handheld computers to learn about prostate cancer. We conclude from this study that African-American barbershops in general are welcoming environments in which to implement community-based prostate cancer education and public health research.
前列腺癌是男性最常见的癌症病因，也是癌症死亡的第二大主要原因。非裔美国男性在前列腺癌诊断和死亡率方面承担着不成比例的负担。目前，不同医学组织对于前列腺癌筛查的指导方针存在差异。因此，非裔美国男性掌握做出关于前列腺癌筛查的明智决策所需的适当信息非常重要。不幸的是，很大比例的非裔美国男性可能无法获得符合其文化背景的前列腺癌教育。因此，开展了一项研究，招募非裔美国男性并干预理发店，以促进前列腺癌筛查决策。本研究的目的是了解招募非裔美国理发店进行前列腺癌教育的有效策略，并确定理发店店主允许其理发店用于研究的意愿。在本文中，我们展示了针对非裔美国理发店的招募方法的结果，包括使用iMark数据系统对参与和未参与的理发店进行比较描述。100%的受访店主表示他们会允许顾客了解前列腺癌。96%的店主表示他们会考虑允许顾客使用手持电脑了解前列腺癌。我们从这项研究中得出结论，总体而言，非裔美国理发店是开展基于社区的前列腺癌教育和公共卫生研究的适宜场所。
