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Direct linkOrom, Heather; Schofield, Elizabeth; Kiviniemi, Marc T.; Waters, Erika A.; Hay, Jennifer L. – Health Education Journal, 2021
Background: Avoiding health information is relatively common and is associated with lower knowledge of health risks and lower engagement in protective health behaviour. Health information avoidance likely limits the effectiveness of health communication interventions. Objective: To identify beliefs associated with avoiding health information.…
Descriptors: Risk, Health Behavior, Information Sources, Communications
Hahn, Ellen J.; Huntington-Moskos, Luz; Mundy, Monica; Rademacher, Kathy; Wiggins, Amanda T.; Rayens, Mary Kay; Studts, Jamie L.; Butler, Karen M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: More radon-related lung cancers occur among those exposed to tobacco smoke. Objectives: To test the effects of a personalized environmental report back intervention on change in stage of action for air nicotine testing and adopting a smoke-free home and radon testing and mitigation from baseline to 3 months postintervention. Methods:…
Descriptors: Cancer, Pollution, Environmental Influences, Risk
Rogers, Charles R.; Robinson, Cendrine D.; Arroyo, Cassandra; Obidike, Ogechi Jessica; Sewali, Barrett; Okuyemi, Kolawole S. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
The homeless represent an extremely disadvantaged population that fare worse than minority groups in access to preventive services and health, and minority groups fare worse than Whites. Early detection screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) saves lives, but empirical data about CRC screening practices among homeless Blacks and Whites are limited.…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Cancer, Screening Tests, At Risk Persons
Andersen, Barbara L.; Golden-Kreutz, Deanna M.; Emery, Charles F.; Thiel, Debora L. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2009
Trials testing the efficacy of psychological interventions for cancer patients had their beginnings in the 1970s. Since then, hundreds of trials have found interventions to be generally efficacious. In this article, we describe an intervention grounded in a conceptual model that includes psychological, behavioral, and biological components. It is…
Descriptors: Intervention, Cancer, Patients, Stress Variables
Peer reviewedAltpeter, Mary; Mitchell, James F.; Pennell, Joan – Health & Social Work, 2005
This study provides the basis for customizing culturally responsive social work health promotion programs aimed at eliminating breast cancer screening and mortality disparities between white and African American women. Survey data collected from a random sample of 853 women in rural North Carolina were used to explore the impact of psychosocial…
Descriptors: Females, Social Work, Caseworkers, Cancer
Abernethy, Alexis D.; Magat, Maricar M.; Houston, Tina R.; Arnold, Harold L., Jr.; Bjorck, Jeffrey P.; Gorsuch, Richard L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
In a study of psychosocial factors related to prostate cancer screening (PCS) of African American men, researchers achieved significant success in recruitment. Key strategies included addressing specific barriers to PCS for African American men and placing recruitment efforts in a conceptual framework that addressed cultural issues (PEN-3 model).…
Descriptors: African Americans, African American Community, Health Promotion, Cancer
