ArticleAmerican journal of men's health2015
Getting Black Men to Undergo Prostate Cancer Screening: The Role of Social Capital.
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- A Model-Based Meta-Analysis of Willingness to Participate in Cancer Screening.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Interventions to Reduce Healthcare Disparities in Cancer Screening Among Minority Adults: a Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2021Pooled it
- Social determinants of prostate cancer in the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
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- Individual and Socioeconomic Affecting Factors for Prostate Cancer Screening Behavior.The world journal of men's health · 2025Review
- Preventive health behaviors among the middle-aged and elderly in China: Does social capital matter?Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Social Distress among Cancer Patients: Differential Effects of Risk Factors and Attenuating Role of Culturally Specific Social Support.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Racial and ethnic differences in the association of social cohesion and social capital with HIV testing.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Social-life factors associated with participation in screening and further assessment of colorectal cancer: A nationwide ecological study in Japanese municipalities.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Distancing the socially distanced: Racial/ethnic composition's association with physical distancing in response to COVID-19 in the U.S.PloS one · 2021Article
- Social Capital and Risk of Concurrent Sexual Partners Among African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi.AIDS and behavior · 2020Article
- Placing prostate cancer disparities within a psychosocial context: challenges and opportunities for future research.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2019Review
- Determinants of prostate specific antigen screening test uptake in an urban community in North-Central Nigeria.African health sciences · 2019Article
- Engaging African American Men as Citizen Scientists to Validate a Prostate Cancer Biomarker: Work-in-Progress.Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action · 2019Article
- Racial disparities, cancer and response to oxidative stress.Advances in cancer research · 2019Review
- The association between physician trust and prostate-specific antigen screening: Implications for shared decision-making.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2018Article
- How Social Networks May Influence Cancer Patients' Situated Identity and Illness-Related Behaviors.Frontiers in public health · 2018Review
- Discordance in perceived risk and epidemiological outcomes of prostate cancer among African American men.Preventive medicine reports · 2017Article
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- Neighborhood Social Capital in Relation to Late HIV Diagnosis, Linkage to HIV Care, and HIV Care Engagement.AIDS and behavior · 2017Article
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Abstract
Despite higher rates of prostate cancer-related mortality and later stage of prostate cancer diagnosis, Black/African American men are significantly less likely than non-Hispanic White men to use early detection screening tools, like prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer. Lower screening rates may be due, in part, to controversy over the value of prostate cancer screenings as part of routine preventive care for men, but Black men represent a high-risk group for prostate cancer that may still benefit from PSA testing. Exploring the role of social factors that might be associated with PSA testing can increase knowledge of what might promote screening behaviors for prostate cancer and other health conditions for which Black men are at high risk. Using multilevel logistic regression, this study analyzed self-report lifetime use of PSA test for 829 Black men older than 45 years across 381 Philadelphia census tracts. This study included individual demographic and aggregated social capital data from the Public Health Management Corporation's 2004, 2006, and 2008 waves of the Community Health Database, and sociodemographic characteristics from the 2000 U.S. Census. Each unit increase in community participation was associated with a 3 to 3.5 times greater likelihood of having had a PSA test (odds ratio = 3.35). Findings suggest that structural forms of social capital may play a role in screening behaviors for Black men in Philadelphia. A better understanding of the mechanism underlying the link between social capital and screening behaviors can inform how researchers and interventionists develop tools to promote screening for those who need it.
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