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ArticleAmerican journal of men's health2018

Exploring Racial Differences Surrounding Prostate Cancer Screening: Beliefs and Attitudes in Community Dwelling Men Attending an Urban Men's Health Event.

Timothy Hewitt, Kim A Killinger, Spencer Hiller, Judith A Boura, Michael Lutz

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Article in American journal of men's health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Associations of Content and Context of Communication with Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Timothy Hewitt1 Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.
Kim A Killinger1 Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.
Spencer Hiller2 Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA.
Judith A Boura1 Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.
Michael Lutz1 Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to explore attitudes/beliefs in men attending an urban health fair to explore barriers to prostate cancer (PCa) screening. Five hundred and forty-four men attending the PCa booth at the fair in 2014 or 2015 completed questionnaires about PCa. Data were examined using Pearson's χ

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Men's HealthBlack or African AmericanEarly Detection of CancerHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansMaleMass ScreeningMiddle AgedProstatic NeoplasmsSurveys and QuestionnairesUrban PopulationAfrican Americanprostate cancer beliefsprostate cancer screeningPSA

Identifiers

PMID29952245
PMCPMC6199456

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