Interventions for increasing colorectal cancer screening uptake among African-American men: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: African-American men have the lowest 5-year survival rate in the U.S. for colorectal cancer (CRC) of any racial group, which may partly stem from low screening adherence.

Predictors of quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus in two tertiary health institutions in Ghana and Nigeria.

Background: Patients with chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) usually have a relatively poor quality of life (QoL), because the cost of care (living expenses and health) or diet restrictions are heavily felt by these patients, and this is of a public health concern. However, limited data on DM QoL exist in Ghana and Nigeria. This makes it imperative for data to be collated in that regard.

Predictors of Intention to Obtain Colorectal Cancer Screening Among African American Men in a State Fair Setting.

Racial disparities in health among African American men in the United States are appalling. African American men have the highest mortality and incidence rates from colorectal cancer compared with all other ethnic, racial, and gender groups. Juxtaposed to their white counterparts, African American men have colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates 27% and 52% higher, respectively.

Teaching Medical Students to Help Patients Quit Smoking: Outcomes of a 10-School Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Early in medical education, physicians must develop competencies needed for tobacco dependence treatment.

Objective: To assess the effect of a multi-modal tobacco dependence treatment curriculum on medical students' counseling skills.

Design: A group-randomized controlled trial (2010-2014) included ten U.

Feasibility of a parenting program to prevent substance use among Latino youth: a community-based participatory research study.

Purpose: Family-skills training programs prevent adolescent substance use, but few exist for immigrant Latino families. This study assesses the feasibility of a family-skills training intervention developed using a community-based participatory research framework, and explores parental traditional values as a modifier of preliminary effects.

Design: One-group pretest-posttest.

Subjective social status predicts smoking abstinence among light smokers.

Objectives: To determine if community subjective social status (SSS) predicted smoking abstinence through 26 weeks postrandomization among 755 African American light smokers of low SES (socioeconomic status).

Methods: Participants were enrolled in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial, which examined the efficacy of nicotine gum and counseling for smoking cessation.

Results: Results indicated that SSS predicted smoking abstinence over time [P=.