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Responses to Behaviorally vs Culturally Tailored Cancer Communication Among African American Women

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Objective: To examine whether tailored cancer communication for African American women can be enhanced by tailoring on 4 sociocultural constructs: religiosity, collectivism, racial pride, and time orientation. Methods: In a randomized trial, participants (n=1227) received a women's health magazine tailored using behavioral construct tailoring (BCT), culturally relevant tailoring (CRT), or both (COMBINED). Two follow-up interviews assessed responses to the magazines. Results: Responses to all magazines were positive. The health focus of the magazines was initially obscured in the CRT condition, but this disappeared over time, and CRT magazines were better liked. Conclusions: Implications for developing and understanding effects of tailored cancer communication are discussed.

Keywords: cancer prevention; culture; health attitudes; health communication; health education; minority health

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: Health Communication Research Laboratory, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO. 2: Community and Family Medicine, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC. 3: Division of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. 4: Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO. 5: School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO.

Publication date: 01 May 2004

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