Examining Colorectal Cancer Risk Awareness and Food Shelf Use Among Health Center Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To employ the Colorectal Cancer Risk Awareness for Public Health Prevention (CRC-PHP) survey to examine how food shelf use and other covariates predict awareness of colorectal cancer (CRC) risk factors among patients of a Federally Qualified Health Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Secondary aims included describing the demographic and chronic-disease characteristics of the patient population and assessing their general knowledge of additional CRC risk factors and intent to make healthy food selections in the near future.

Methods

Measures included CRC risk awareness, food shelf use, chronic-disease status, and intent to select healthy food options. Regression models and chi-square tests of independence were employed to examine differences among food shelf users and

SUBMITTER: Obidike OJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6739125 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature