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5155.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
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| A panel of investigators from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions will present findings from five community-based intervention research studies conducted with the aim of reducing health disparities. The first study focused on evaluating the effectiveness of a prostate cancer education program on prostate cancer screening rates among African American men in rural Alabama when their female significant others are involved. A second study explored the impact on screening for colorectal cancer of training African American and Hispanic American community leaders to educate their constituents about colorectal cancer. A third study evaluated a community-based educational intervention designed to improve the capacity of recent female Hispanic immigrants to access and utilize the health care system. The fourth study was designed to increase the prostate cancer knowledge and screening among African American males through a church-based educational program. The fifth study tested an intervention to reduce sexual risk behaviors in a high-risk, impaired homeless population of African American, Hispanic and Caucasian men with mental illness. All presenters will discuss effective strategies for reaching the various population groups, lessons learned, and policy implications of their studies. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Discuss the impact of including female significant others in prostate cancer education about prostate cancer screening rates among African American men in rural Alabama. 2. Describe strategies to increase colorectal cancer screening among African Americans and Hispanic Americans through the use of community leaders as educators of their constituents. 3. Discuss changes in knowledge, self-efficacy, and healthcare utilization patterns among recent female Hispanic immigrants enrolled in English as a Second Language courses following participation in an educational intervention. 4. Describe the strategies and outcomes of a successful church-based prostate cancer screening program. 5. Discuss the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce sexual risk behaviors in a high-risk impaired population: homeless African American and Hispanic American men. | |||
| Eleanor Walker, PhD, RN | |||
| Eleanor Walker, PhD, RN | |||
| Reducing sexual risk behaviors among homeless mentally ill African American adult males J. Gary Linn, PhD | |||
| Improving access to healthcare among limited-English-proficient populations DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, PhD RN, Deborah Parra-Medina, PhD, MPH, Janice C. Probst, PhD, Alexandra Evans, PhD | |||
An Educational Intervention to Improve Prostate Cancer Screening Rates among African American Males in Rural Alabama ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Vivian L. Carter, PhD | |||
| Strategies to Increase Prostate Cancer Screening among African American Males Baqar Husaini, PhD, Samuel Scales | |||
| A community collaboration to improve colorectal cancer screening and education for older minorities in the city of Newark, New Jersey Ana Natale-Pereira, MD, MPH, Marielos Vega, RN, Dawne M. Mouzon, MPH, Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, Carmen Mclaughlin, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA