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Using CBPR to Extend Prostate Cancer Education, Counseling, and Screening Opportunities to Urban-Dwelling African-Americans

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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is becoming one of the dominant approaches for bringing evidence- and consensus-based cancer prevention and control practices to medically underserved communities. There are many examples of how CBPR has been useful for generating culturally specific solutions for different health issues that affect African-Americans. However, few examples exist in the literature on how the CBPR approach can be applied to address prostate cancer. This paper describes a collaborative process for linking inner-city, African-American men to free prostate cancer education, physician counseling, and screening opportunities (prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and digital rectal examination (DRE)). The site of this community-based participatory project was the city of Buffalo, located in Erie County, New York. The collaborative, community-academic process that is described includes the following: (1) planning and conducting a community needs assessment to contextualize local prostate cancer issues, (2) organizing town and gown event planning, and (3) manipulating aspects of the built environment to build an infrastructure within the community to address disparities in screening opportunities. This paper concludes with a description of lessons learned that can help others develop and implement similar activities in other communities.

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  1. Prostate cancer knowledge was assessed with ten items using a true/false response option. One point was provided for each correct response. The range of knowledge scores was 0–10.

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  1. Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8015, Statesboro, GA, 30460-8015, USA

    Levi Ross, Jarrett Johnson, Stacy W. Smallwood & Stuart H. Tedders

  2. Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Public Health Sciences, Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, SC, 29445, USA

    John S. Luque

  3. College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, 219D Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Collins O. Airhihenbuwa

  4. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA

    Terry Alford & Willie Underwood III

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This project was supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under grant K01-CA148889.

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Ross, L., Johnson, J., Smallwood, S.W. et al. Using CBPR to Extend Prostate Cancer Education, Counseling, and Screening Opportunities to Urban-Dwelling African-Americans. J Canc Educ 31, 702–708 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-015-0849-5

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