Culturally Responsive Health Promotion to Address Health Disparities in African American Men: A Program Impact Evaluation.

ABSTRACT: African American (AA) men continue to experience worse health outcomes compared to men of other races/ethnicities. Community-based interventions are known to be effective in health promotion and disease prevention. The program objectives were to (a) increase knowledge and risk awareness of targeted conditions, (b) change health-care-seeking attitudes toward regular primary care among AA men, and (c) improve their lifestyle-related health behaviors by leveraging the influence of women in their lives. The community-engaged educational intervention targeted both men and women and included eight 90-min sessions per cohort. Topics included prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental health, health-care access, and healthy lifestyle. Sessions were both didactic and interactive. A p

SUBMITTER: Okoro ON 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7450466 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature