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A comparison of a spiritually based and non-spiritually based educational intervention for informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among church-attending African-American men . INTRODUCTION Health communication interventions have been modestly effective for increasing informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among African-American men ; however , knowledge and informed decision making is still questionable even with screening . Church-based programs may be more effective if they are spiritually based in nature . OBJECTIVE The aims of the present study were to implement and provide an initial evaluation of a spiritually based prostate cancer screening informed decision making intervention for African-American men who attend church , and determine its efficacy for increasing informed decision making . DESIGN AND METHOD Churches were randomized to receive either the spiritually based or the non-spiritual intervention . Trained community health advisors , who were African-American male church members , led an educational session and distributed educational print materials . Participants completed baseline and immediate follow-up surveys to assess the intervention impact on study outcomes . RESULTS The spiritually based intervention appeared to be more effective in areas such as knowledge , and men read more of their materials in the spiritually based group than in the non-spiritual group . CONCLUSIONS Further examination of the efficacy of the spiritually based approach to health communication is warranted .
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Intervention_Educational
spiritually based and non-spiritually based educational intervention
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Health communication interventions
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spiritually based or the non-spiritual intervention
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Intervention_Educational
educational session
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distributed educational print materials .
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Outcome_Other
materials
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efficacy
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Participant_Sex
men
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men
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men