Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Publication Title
Journal of Cancer Education
Abstract
The goal of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of training barbers to deliver a brief culturally and literacy appropriate prostate cancer educational intervention to urban African American men. Eight barbers received training to deliver a 2-month educational intervention in the barbershop and completed pre- and posttest training assessments. The training workshops led to a significant increase in mean prostate cancer knowledge scores among the barbers (60% before vs. 79% after; P < 0.05). The barbers also reported positively on the intervention in terms of satisfaction and relative ease of engaging clients. Training barbers to deliver a prostate cancer educational intervention is a feasible strategy for raising prostate cancer awareness of the disease among a priority population.
Recommended Citation
Luque, John S., Brian M. Rivers, Maisha Kambon, Ronald Brookins, B. Lee Green, Cathy D. Meade.
2010.
"Barbers Against Prostate Cancer: A Feasibility Study for Prostate Cancer Education in an Urban African American Community."
Journal of Cancer Education, 25 (1): 96-100.
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Comments
This is an Accepted Author Manuscript obtained from the PMC. The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at the Journal of Cancer Education.