Fox S A, Pitkin K, Paul C, Carson S, Duan N
RAND, Santa Monica, California 90407-2138, USA.
Health Educ Behav. 1998 Dec;25(6):742-58. doi: 10.1177/109019819802500605.
Little is known about the health behaviors of church attendees. This article reviewed telephone interview data of 1,517 women who were church members from 45 churches located in Los Angeles County to determine their breast cancer screening status and to identify the key predictors of screening. Almost all of this sample (96%) reported attending church at least once a month. Key predictors of screening included physician-patient communication, ethnic background, and having medical insurance. Although church-related predictors were not significantly related to screening adherence, the authors compared community-based screening rates from another sample to their sample rates and found that, when controlling for income and education, church members fared better on mammography screening than women who were community residents. This finding suggests that frequent church attendance contributes to better mammography screening status and that the relationship between religious involvement and health behaviors needs further explanation.
关于常去教堂做礼拜者的健康行为，人们所知甚少。本文回顾了对1517名女性的电话访谈数据，这些女性是洛杉矶县45所教堂的成员，目的是确定她们的乳腺癌筛查状况，并找出筛查的关键预测因素。几乎所有这个样本（96%）的人都报告每月至少去教堂做礼拜一次。筛查的关键预测因素包括医患沟通、种族背景和拥有医疗保险。虽然与教堂相关的预测因素与筛查依从性没有显著关联，但作者将另一个样本的社区筛查率与他们样本的筛查率进行了比较，发现控制收入和教育因素后，教堂成员在乳房X光检查筛查方面比社区居民女性表现更好。这一发现表明，频繁去教堂做礼拜有助于更好的乳房X光检查筛查状况，宗教参与和健康行为之间的关系需要进一步解释。
