Breast cancer screening adherence in African-American women : Black cosmetologists promoting health
✍ Scribed by Georgia Robins Sadler; A. Goldzier Thomas; Sharanjeet K. Dhanjal; Bisrat Gebrekristos; Fred A. Wright
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 96 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
African Americans suffer a disproportionate burden of illness. Afrocentric, community-based health education programs that create permanent health resources within the community offer a viable means to reduce morbidity and mortality.
This feasibility study randomized African-American cosmetologists into two groups of peer health educators and trained them to pass along health information to their clients. Cosmetologists in one arm were trained to become actively involved peer health educators, whereas, in the other arm, they were trained to be informed generally about the information they were passing along to their clients.
An African-American ancestral storyteller refined the cosmetologists' storytelling skills to facilitate inclusion of key health facts and their repetition to others.
Cosmetologists and their clients reported high acceptance of the cosmetologists