Predictors of prostate cancer screening among African American men treated at an Academic Medical Center in the Southern United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The controversy surrounding prostate cancer screening, coupled with the high rates of incidence and mortality among African American men, increase the importance of African American men engaging in an informed decision-making process around prostate cancer screening.

Purpose

To examine predictors of prostate cancer screening via the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Secondary objectives were to examine whether African American men have been screened for prostate cancer; their confidence in making an informed choice about whether PSA testing is right for them; and whether they have talked with their provider about PSA testing and engaged in an informed decision-making process around prostate cancer screening.

Methods

We conducted a study among a sample o

SUBMITTER: Coughlin SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8064558 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature