4205.0 Evaluation, Accountability and Methods for Effective Assessment of Interfaith and Faith-Based policy on public health issues

Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 2:30 PM
Oral

2:30 PM
Evaluating stakeholder participation in a faith-based initiative
Bernadette M. West, PhD, Elyse Pivnick, MCP and Shachi Gupta, MBBS
3:00 PM
Colorectal cancer knowledge, perceived barriers to and benefits of screening, stage of readiness for screening, and screening behaviors among urban church-attending African Americans: Findings from and feasibility of a self-administered church-based survey
Cheryl Holt, PhD, Isabel Scarinci, PhD, MPH, Martha Crowther, PhD, MPH, John Bolland, PhD, Mark Litaker, PhD, Chastity Roberts, PhD, MPH, Penny Southward, MPPM, Steve Coughlin, PhD and Mohamad Eloubeidi, MD
3:30 PM
Evaluation of a spiritually-based educational program to increase informed decision making for prostate cancer screening in African American churches
Cheryl Holt, PhD, Theresa Wynn, PhD, Penny Southward, MPPM, Emily Schulz, PhD, Mark Litaker, PhD and Sanford Jeames, MA

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing