Recruiting Black/African American men for research on prostate cancer prevention

Abstract

Background: Endoscopic, endonasal, minimally invasive pituitary surgery (MIPS) has proven to be safe and efficacious. However, there are few data that assess the health‐related or sinonasal‐specific quality‐of‐life (QoL) of those undergoing MIPS. Our hypothesis is that patients undergoing MIPS do not have significantly different sinus disability or change in QoL after surgery compared to prior to surgery. Methods: This is a retrospective review of patients undergoing MIPS between 2002 and 2009. Rhinosinusitis Disability Index (RSDI) scores, patient demographics, tumor characteristics, surgical outcomes, and intraoperative/postoperative complications were recorded. Preoperative and postoperative mean RSDI scores and the mean absolute change in RSDI were calculated with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). One‐way analysis of variance (ANOVA) compared RSDI scores between different tumor subgroups. Results: A total of 50 patients completed the RSDI preoperatively and postoperatively. Analyses revealed no significant difference between preoperative and postoperative scores across all domains (p = 0.84). When the cohort was stratified into functional vs nonfunctional tumor types there was no significant difference between the 2 groups (p = 0.88). Data showed no statistically significant change in RSDI scores postoperatively in all groups. Conclusion: These data show that MIPS with appropriate postoperative care results in little or no long‐term sinonasal quality of life defects. © 2011 ARS‐AAOA, LLC.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Modality Use and Beliefs Among African American Prostate Cancer Survivors

“…The men in the current study were willing to share the experiences they had with prostate cancer, although other studies have found that cancer is not talked about openly among African Americans because of its associated stigma (Gray, Fitch, Phillips, Labrecque, & Fergus, 2000;Woods, Montgomery, Belliard, Ramirez-Johnson, & Wilson, 2004;Woods, Montgomery, & Herring, 2004). The lack of suspicion and distrust of physicians and other healthcare providers was the most important finding in the present investigation.…”

The psychosocial aspects of sexual recovery after prostate cancer treatment

“…For AfricanAmericans, this may be associated with the distrust of the health care system after the experience of racism and exploitation in medical research. 44,45 A few exceptions are worth noting. Jenkins et al 46 surveyed 1112 white and 118 African-American men about their sexual functioning before and after prostate cancer treatment.…”

Descriptive Study of Educated African American Women Successful at Weight-Loss Maintenance Through Lifestyle Changes

“…15 It is unclear whether the topic of weight management is uninteresting to men, but challenges in recruitment of African American men into biomedical research have been well documented. [27][28][29][30] The study sample is very educated when compared to randomly-selected national samples of African American women. In NHANES 1999-2006, 49 % of participants had at least some college education 31 compared to 91 % in this sample, thus potentially limiting its applicability to the larger African American population.…”