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Direct linkLee, Mi Hwa; Hong, Saahoon; Merighi, Joseph R. – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Fatalism is reported as a salient cultural belief that influences cancer screening disparities in racial and ethnic minority groups. Previous studies provide a range of measures and descriptions of cancer fatalism, but no studies to our knowledge have analyzed how fatalistic views cluster together within subgroups to form distinct profiles, and…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Immigrants, Females, Cancer
Chung, Jae Eun; Lee, Chul-Joo – Health Education Research, 2019
One critical yet understudied concept associated with cancer information is cancer fatalism, i.e. deterministic thoughts about the cause of cancer, the inability to prevent it and the unavoidability of death upon diagnosis. The aim of this study is to understand how information seeking about cancer online influences cancer fatalism and whether and…
Descriptors: Cancer, Information Seeking, Online Searching, Psychological Patterns
Amuta, Ann Oyare; Chen, Xuewei; Mkuu, Rahma – American Journal of Health Education, 2017
Background: Information seeking is crucial in the health behavior context. Cancer information seeking may play a key role in individuals' perceptions and subsequent health behaviors. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of cancer information seeking on perceptions of cancer worry, fatalism and risk. Methods: Data from…
Descriptors: Cancer, Risk, Anxiety, Information Seeking
Barrera-Clavijo, Lizeth K.; Wiesner-Ceballos, Carolina; Rincón-Martínez, Lina M. – Health Education Journal, 2016
Background: High-risk human papilloma virus (HR-HPV) is highly prevalent in sexually active men and women; HR-HPV has been classified as a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and as a necessary, but not sufficient, causal agent for cervical cancer. Women who test positive for HPV often experience serious psychosocial consequences such as fear,…
Descriptors: Cancer, Screening Tests, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Risk
Liang, Wenchi; Wang, Judy; Chen, Mei-Yuh; Feng, Shibao; Yi, Bin; Mandelblatt, Jeanne S. – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
Mammography screening rates among Chinese American women have been reported to be low. This study examines whether and how culture views and language ability influence mammography adherence in this mostly immigrant population. Asymptomatic Chinese American women (n = 466) aged 50 and older, recruited from the Washington, D.C. area, completed a…
Descriptors: Intervals, Females, Language Aptitude, Chinese Americans
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
