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，我们寻求进一步完善和测试一个多组件，文化上适当的前列腺癌教育干预在社区试验低收入，农村非洲裔美国男性在南部格鲁吉亚，以减少在获得前列腺癌筛查信息的差距。拟议的研究是创新的，因为我们正在测试这种多组分干预在农村地区的有效性，使用理发师健康顾问，以增加非洲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，与仅提供信息（例如，小册子）比较条件。理发师健康顾问也将作为桥梁， 为没有正规保健提供者的男子提供的保健系统。我们的长期目标是减少生活在美国南部农村的非洲裔美国男性前列腺癌的差异。该提案的理由源于这样一种观点，即使用训练有素的理发师健康顾问进行干预是向美国南部非裔美国男性传播前列腺癌信息的文化上适当且可行的策略，正如卢克之前的试点研究所示。由于低收入非洲裔美国人的医疗保健准入障碍，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，以成功地增加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.