Barbers Against Prostate Cancer

D.3.2。研究子项目 2：理发师对抗前列腺癌（Pi：Luque、Co-I Vest、Co-I Markossian、顾问 Gwede）。 在这个项目中，我们寻求在佐治亚州南部低收入农村非裔美国男性的社区试验中进一步完善和测试一种多成分、文化上适当的前列腺癌教育干预措施，以减少在获取前列腺癌筛查信息方面的差异。拟议的研究具有创新性，因为我们正在使用理发师健康顾问来测试这种多成分干预措施在农村地区的功效，以增加非裔美国男性前列腺癌筛查的知情决策。的 研究子项目 2 的中心假设是，与纯信息（例如小册子）比较条件相比，由训练有素的理发师健康顾问针对农村低收入非裔美国男性提供的多成分、基于社区的干预措施将更有效地促进前列腺癌筛查的知情决策。理发师健康顾问还将充当桥梁 为没有正规医疗保健提供者的男性提供的医疗保健系统。我们的长期目标是减少生活在美国南部农村的非裔美国男性患前列腺癌的差异。该提案的基本原理源于这样一种观点，即使用经过培训的理发师健康顾问进行干预在文化上是适当且可行的策略，可以向美国南部的非裔美国男性传播前列腺癌信息，正如卢克之前的试点研究所表明的那样。由于低收入非裔美国男性获得医疗保健的障碍，需要训练有素的理发师健康顾问将个人与医疗保健系统联系起来，以成功提高前列腺癌筛查的知情决策。

D.3.2. Research Subproject 2: Barbers Against Prostate Cancer (Pi: Luque, Co-I Vest, Co-I Markossian, Consultant Gwede). In this project, we seek to further refine and test a multi-component, culturally appropriate prostate cancer educational intervention in a community trial for low-income, rural African American men in southern Georgia to reduce disparities in access to information on prostate cancer screening. The proposed research is innovative because we are testing the efficacy of this multi-component intervention in rural areas using barber health advisors to increase Informed decision making for prostate cancer screening in African American men. The central hypothesis of Research Subproject 2 is that a multi-component, community-based intervention delivered by trained barber health advisors targeted to rural, low-income, African American men will be more effective in facilitating informed decision making for prostate cancer screening when compared to an information-only (e.g., pamphlets) comparison condition. The barber health advisors will also act as bridges to the health care system for men without regular health care providers. Our long-term goal is to reduce disparities in prostate cancer among African American men living in the rural, southern US. The proposal's rationale stems from the contention that interventions using trained barber health advisors are culturally appropriate and feasible strategies for disseminating prostate cancer information to African American men in the US South, as has been shown in Luque's previous pilot studies. Because of health care access barriers for low-income African American men, trained barber health advisors who link individuals with the health care system are needed to successfully increase informed decision making for prostate cancer screening.