Between-Race Differences in Processes Predicting Physician Communication for African American and European American Recipients of Breast Density Notifications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Breast density notification laws mandate reporting of dense breast to applicable women. The same psychological and systemic barriers that yield between-race differences in mammography use will probably yield between-race differences in women's psychological and behavioral responses to breast density notifications.

Purpose

We used the theory of planned behavior as a framework to examine between-race differences in the likelihood of following-up with physicians after receiving breast density notifications and to examine differences in African American and Caucasian American women's behavioral decision-making processes.

Methods

A subset of 212 African American and Caucasian American women who participated in an initial and follow-up survey examining responses

SUBMITTER: Manning M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7331452 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature