a School of Social Work , Fayetteville State University , Fayetteville , North Carolina , USA.
b School of Social Work , University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa , Alabama , USA.
Soc Work Public Health. 2019;34(3):251-259. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2019.1580658. Epub 2019 Mar 25.
Breast cancer rates for African American women are lower than that of their White peers, yet their mortality rate is disproportionately higher. This study sought to address the disparity through a community-based primary prevention study targeting African American women in the Black church utilizing the public health model of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. The study centered on the meaningful intersection of race, gender, and faith as key factors in increasing breast health knowledge and breast cancer risk factors. The results reveal that African American women respond positively to intervention models centered on salient aspects of their identity.
非裔美国女性的乳腺癌发病率低于白人女性，但她们的死亡率却不成比例地更高。本研究旨在通过一项以黑人社群为基础的初级预防研究来解决这一差异，该研究以初级、二级和三级预防为公共卫生模型，针对黑人教堂中的非裔美国女性。该研究集中在种族、性别和信仰的有意义的交集上，这些因素是提高乳房健康知识和乳腺癌风险因素的关键。研究结果表明，非裔美国女性对以她们身份的显著方面为中心的干预模式反应积极。
