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African American Men's Prostate Cancer Knowledge And Self-Efficacy For Informed Decision-Making: A Mixed Methods Study, Dionne J. Jones-Dendy Phd
African American Men's Prostate Cancer Knowledge And Self-Efficacy For Informed Decision-Making: A Mixed Methods Study, Dionne J. Jones-Dendy Phd
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A mixed methods study was conducted whereby, the quantitative portion has a randomized control design, in an urban Delaware community to examine the effectiveness of an educational intervention, which included the testimony of an African American (AA) prostate cancer survivor on AA men’s (n=98) prostate cancer knowledge and self-efficacy for informed decision making. Guided by Bandura’s Social Cognitive theory, participants’ prostate cancer knowledge measured by PROCASE and for self-efficacy measured by the Prostate Cancer Screening Self-efficacy scale, were evaluated before and following viewing of the American Cancer Society’s prostate cancer video. Participants randomized to the intervention completed evaluations after the …