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Direct linkAlber, Julia M.; Glanz, Karen – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Public health messages can be used to increase awareness about colorectal cancer screenings. Free or inexpensive images for creating health messages are readily available, yet little is known about how a pictured individual's engagement in the behavior of interest affects message outcomes. Participants (N = 360), aged 50 to 75 years, completed an…
Descriptors: Public Health, Cancer, Older Adults, Online Surveys
Scully, Maree; Makin, Jennifer; Maloney, Sarah; Wakefield, Melanie – Health Education Research, 2014
This study aimed to determine whether there have been shifts in news coverage of sun protection issues over a 12-year period in the context of an evolving skin cancer prevention agenda. A content analysis was performed on all relevant articles (N = 552) published in the two metropolitan daily newspapers in Melbourne, Australia, from 2001 to 2012.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prevention, Cancer, Health Promotion
Pelto, Debra J.; Sadler, Georgia Robins; Njoku, Ogo; Rodriguez, Maria Carina; Villagra, Cristina; Malcarne, Vanessa L.; Riley, Natasha E.; Behar, Alma I.; Jandorf, Lina – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
The pilot study reported in this article culturally and linguistically adapted an educational intervention to promote cancer clinical trials (CCTs) participation among Latinas/os and African Americans. The single-session slide presentation with embedded videos, originally developed through a campus-community partnership in Southern California, was…
Descriptors: Cancer, Intervention, Hispanic Americans, African Americans
Abraído-Lanza, Ana F.; Martins, Mariana Cunha; Shelton, Rachel C.; Flórez, Karen R. – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
With the marked increase of the Latino population in the United States during the past 20 years, there has been growing interest in the social, cultural, and structural factors that may impede breast cancer screening among Latino women, especially among those subgroups that have been understudied. Acculturation and fatalism are central cultural…
Descriptors: Cancer, Screening Tests, Hispanic Americans, Acculturation
Beverley, Charles St. Clare, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Introduction: Breast cancer affects the lives of millions of women each year in the United States. Early detection by mammography screening can reduce the risk for advanced stages of breast cancer and improve the probability of long-term survival in women. Electronic medical records (EMRs) have been identified as a successful approach for…
Descriptors: Cancer, Females, Recordkeeping, Databases
Carney, Timothy Jay – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A study design has been developed that employs a dual modeling approach to identify factors associated with facility-level cancer screening improvement and how this is mediated by the use of clinical decision support. This dual modeling approach combines principles of (1) Health Informatics, (2) Cancer Prevention and Control, (3) Health Services…
Descriptors: Cancer, Screening Tests, Prevention, Public Health
